EagleEye Control Software, a subsidiary of New Dimension Software, has announced the general availability of Version 3.0.0 of its CONTROL-SA enterprise security management solution. Version 3.0.0 features a new Windows-based graphical user interface (GUI) that allows security administrators to take full advantage of added functionality, and new agents for Microsoft Exchange and VAX/VMS.
CONTROL-SA allows security administrators to manage centrally any number of commercially available security products running on a range of platforms. CONTROL-SA offers support for the following: mainframe security packages (RACF, CA-Top Secret, CA-ACF2); Native security of NOS and midrange operating systems (UNIX, AS/400, VAX/VMS, Windows NT, Novell, OS/2 LAN Server); and applications security (SAP R/3, Oracle, Sybase, Lotus Notes, MS/Exchange, SeOS and Proxima SSO).
New Dimension products are represented in South Africa by Software Futures, a subsidiary of Computer Configurations Holdings.
"We continue to experience strong demand for Control-SA as more companies address enterprise security management concerns. This trend is evidently supported by our increased penetration of major companies," says Adam Gur, CEO of EagleEye. "Our strategy is to work in unison with our customers and ensure they continue to benefit from an innovative solution. We are committed to helping organisations plan and build long-term security management directions, and maximise their technology investments."
"Our customers have identified Exchange as a major environment they want to manage through Control-SA," says Raz Nitzan, VP of development for EagleEye. "We have developed the SA-Agent for MS/Exchange to provide the necessary proactive management and monitoring capabilities that will enable customers to manage their security, thereby increasing service availability and productivity."
Comprising the enterprise SecurityStation and platform-specific SA-Agents, Version 3.0.0 gives security administrators the option of automating the managing their security environment from a Windows-based GUI. Version 3.0.0 offers extended navigation capabilities through its hierarchical and intuitive views that are designed to meet the MS-Windows industry standards.
In addition to the availability of a Windows-based GUI and the introduction of new agents, Version 3.0.0 includes the following new features for enhanced enterprise-wide security management:
- Organisational structure representation. The various units that make up the organisational structure of an enterprise can now be represented in the Enterprise SecurityStation. These various units, organisational objects, are connected to the branches of a directory tree representing the enterprise. These manageable units allow security administrators to grant management rights based on the organisational structure.
- Enhanced alert facilities. The open alert facility enables customers to funnel alerts generated in a managed platform through the SA-Agent to the Enterprise SecurityStation where they are handled like any other alert generated by Control-SA. Additionally, the product now has the capability to forward any alert as an SNMP trap to external applications.
- Support for 3270-based applications. A new API provides the ability to interface with legacy applications on mainframes without modifying their code, using screen-scraping techniques. This simplifies the development of support to such applications.
- Hot backup implementations. Added support for the replication server is available on the Enterprise SecurityStation, allowing for constant availability of a backup copy of the Control-SA repository.
- Extract capability in batch mode. A read function has been added to the batch mode interface, providing the capability to read single or multiple database records by using specified keys and filtering criteria.
- CA-ACF2 resource management. Control-SA Version 3.0.0 introduces CA-ACF2 resource management for support of all CA-ACF2 functionality.
- Control-SA is part of IOA /Enterprise, a tightly integrated suite of core systems management disciplines that allows organisations to achieve timely and comprehensive implementation of applications enterprise-wide.
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