SecureData, a member of the JSE-listed ERP.com Group and the distributor for RSA Security products in Sub-Saharan Africa, today announced that the latter's Network Intelligence Group was recognised as a leader in The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Security Information Management, Q4 2006 (December 2006) report by Forrester Research, an independent technology and market research company.
In the report, Forrester analyst Paul Stamp wrote: "Network Intelligence enVision's all-around competence across different security information management (SIM) functions earns it the best marks for a current offering among the evaluated vendors."
The Forrester Wave report, published on 5 December 2006, noted: "Network Intelligence's biggest selling point is its ability to capture and process huge amounts of data. Its architecture is designed to manage large system and application logs centrally and thus provides security analysts with a wealth of data to investigate security incidents quickly."
The report also stated: "New owner EMC's overall strategy for security information management, in conjunction with its RSA acquisition, looks very promising."
As companies recognise the need to manage and protect both information and transactions, there is a growing focus on moving beyond perimeter-centric security. By adopting an information-centric security strategy, companies can assess risk; secure people, data and infrastructure; and leverage compliance and security information to assure policy compliance, which bolsters the organisation's overall security posture.
"Companies worldwide face the mounting challenge of making sense of huge amounts of security and compliance information generated across the entire enterprise, and around the world," commented Jim Melvin, vice-president of marketing at RSA. "By delivering a single platform that enables customers to transform this enterprise-wide data into automated compliance and security information, RSA helps companies to assure compliance and improve enterprise security."
A platform for customer success
Cyberklix, a reseller based in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada built part of its managed security service offering around the Network Intelligence solution.
"Our customers are looking for an enterprise-wide platform for their security and compliance operations. Once customers see the wealth of data available through the Network Intelligence solution, they understand how it can be useful, and organisations value the support we offer in helping them to manage the vital information," added John Menezes, president and CEO of Cyberklix. "We've built a whole managed security service around this product and are able to offer our customers the ability to collect and manage security events across the network, scaling with them as they grow."
Backed by the LogSmart Internet Protocol Database (IPDB), the Network Intelligence technology is designed to efficiently collect and protect all the data, from any IP device, without filtering or agents. By capturing all the data, customers have the ability to track, detect and mitigate known and unknown vulnerabilities from their enterprise networks, enabling organisations to analyse security in real-time, and over time. In addition, because the product is engineered to have out-of-the-box integration with networked storage platforms such as EMC Centera and EMC Celerra, Network Intelligence's solution enables customers to cost-effectively store their critical information to meet compliance requirements.
Network Intelligence
Network Intelligence, part of RSA, The Security Division of EMC, is a leader in transforming enterprise-wide data into compliance and security information. The LogSmart Internet Protocol Database (IPDB) provides an architecture designed to efficiently collect and protect all the data that drives customers' businesses. Network Intelligence helps take the cost and complexity out of compliance and security for hundreds of customers worldwide. Network Intelligence joined RSA after its acquisition by EMC in September 2006.
For further information, please contact Andrew Ochse at telephone (011) 790 2500; fax (011) 790 2599; e-mail andrewo@securedata.co.za.
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SecureData, an ERP.com company, is Africa's premier value-added distributor and solution provider of perimeter, network and endpoint information security and risk management solutions. As well as being the sole distributor in Sub-Saharan Africa for Trend Micro, SecureData is the Sub-Saharan African distributor for AirDefense, Application Security, Check Point Software Technologies, Cibecs, eEye, Network Engines, Precise Biometrics, Rocket Software, RSA Security, St Bernard Software, TippingPoint Technologies and Websense. For more information, visit SecureData at www.securedata.co.za.
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