ArcSight, a leader in network and security information management solutions, was among the select companies that Forrester invited to participate in its 5 December 2006 Forrester Wave report titled: "Enterprise Security Information Management, Q4 2006."
In this evaluation, ArcSight was cited as a "leader" and received the highest score for overall strategy, which encompasses product strategy, the financial resources to support that strategy and pricing of its offering.
ArcSight received the highest scores for compatibility and integration of its current offering. According to the report: "ArcSight ESM's 'out-of-the-box' ability to collect data from third-party devices is unsurpassed among the evaluated products."
The report states: "ArcSight leads the evaluation of enterprise security information management solutions with its feature-rich security operations functionality, and much improved reporting interface.
"In addition," the report stated, "its flexibility and reliability make ArcSight a favourite with many enterprise customers, especially in the security operations centre [SOC]."
ArcSight ESM was specifically noted for serving organisations that "have a highly distributed, heterogeneous environment" due to its "agent-based architecture [which] helps offload some of the central processing, and it offers resiliency in the case of a network outage".
ArcSight ESM was also noted for its threat identification and response capabilities: "ArcSight was originally built to suit the needs of the SOC and continues to excel in that space.
"Users often choose the solution for its ability to correlate events across systems. Moreover, its integration with ArcSight Network Response Manager streamlines interaction with other network components to respond to threats or policy violations."
"We are proud to be associated with ArcSight, as they receive the distinction of being named an enterprise security information management leader by Forrester," says Martyn Healy of Blue Turtle Technologies.
"With the recent release of ArcSight's new log management appliance, which offers the industry's highest performance and best price/performance, and ArcSight's expansion into networking with their network appliances, it is broadening the ways we help security and network operations teams improve their processes and overall business value."
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ArcSight, a leader in network and security information management, delivers mission-critical solutions for security, network and IT operations that enable enterprises to turn operational data into action.
ArcSight solutions address today's complex enterprise networks that span multiple organisations and corporate business initiatives. By comprehensively collecting, analysing, managing and responding to security and network data, ArcSight solutions mitigate information risk for real-time threat management, compliance reporting and automated network response.
ArcSight's customer base includes leading global enterprises, government agencies and MSSPs.
Blue Turtle Technologies
Blue Turtle Technologies provides solutions for optimising, enhancing and leveraging existing IT investment, and supporting the cost-effective delivery of new technology initiatives.
With experience from mainframe to desktop, Blue Turtle delivers solutions for the effective management of IT infrastructures employing innovative software products, backed by "best-practice" implementation services.
Blue Turtle's strategy leverages "best-in-class" software products brought together from leading international and SA software providers to deliver compelling and cost-effective technology management solutions to customers.
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