HP debuts ArcSight Express 3.0

Issued by HP
Johannesburg, 13 Sep 2011

HP today announced HP ArcSight Express 3.0, a unified security solution that transforms the delivery of advanced correlation, log management and user activity monitoring to improve an organisation's ability to rapidly detect and prevent cyber threats.

Cyber attacks have become common occurrences, increasing the need for companies to manage, store and secure growing amounts of sensitive operational data, while quickly identifying associated security risks.

HP ArcSight Express 3.0 is the first security information and event management (SIEM) product powered by the new Correlation Optimised Retention and Retrieval Engine (CORR-Engine). As a result, it delivers the scalability required to correlate, process and store vast amounts of data to advance the detection and prevention of cyber threats and risks.

“With the need to manage and secure ever-increasing volumes of sensitive data, enterprises are confronted with a classic 'big data' challenge,” said Clive Brindley, HP Software Channel Manager, South Africa. “Powered by the CORR-Engine, HP ArcSight Express 3.0 is designed to address this head-on, enabling faster analysis and detection, which in turn reduces the overall cost of combating cyber crime.”

A key component of the HP Security Intelligence and Risk Management (SIRM) platform, HP ArcSight Express 3.0 is a single turnkey appliance that significantly simplifies the installation and operation of a SIEM solution. HP ArcSight Express 3.0 enables IT administrators and security analysts to more quickly respond to business threats than ever before: (1)

* Accelerating the rate to correlate incoming events - leveraging the CORR-Engine - by 300% per second (2).
* Improving the ability to retrieve correlated events stored in the CORR-Engine by 500% (2).
* Increasing storage efficiency requiring one-tenth of the long-term storage space for correlated events (3).
* Operating more efficiently with the use of a common data store across SIEM solutions, which provide a seamless workflow that includes real-time detection, alerting, and forensic analysis and reporting.
* Simplifying administrative tasks with an easy-to-use management console that accelerates SIEM deployment and management.

“The new HP ArcSight Express 3.0 solution delivers dramatic performance improvements over previous versions,” said Matt DeVries, information security engineer at Priority Health, a leading provider of health insurance plans. “The new CORR-Engine technology provides the high-performance backbone that is necessary to keep pace with the growing volume of security data and to detect and respond to sophisticated threats.”

More information about HP ArcSight security solutions is available at www.hpenterprisesecurity.com.

Availability:

Pricing and availability varies from product to product. For more information, contact Clive Brindley on +27 11 785-1000.

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(1) Based on performance results from HP ArcSight Express 2.0.
(2) Based on internal testing conducted by HP ArcSight, the HP ArcSight Express 3.0 product family achieved the following performance improvements over the HP ArcSight Express 2.0 product family when running on similar specified hardware and leveraging the CORR-Engine: 1) the rate of correlation processing for incoming events improved by three times, or 300%, on a per second basis and 2) the rate of retrieval of correlated events stored in the CORR-Engine (for querying/reporting) improved by five times, or 500%.
(3) In internal lab tests conducted by HP ArcSight, HP ArcSight Express 3.0 used one-tenth the amount of physical disk space for long-term storage of correlated events compared with HP ArcSight Express 2.0.

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HP debuts ArcSight Express 3.0

First SIEM product powered by advanced correlation engine for faster detection and reduced impact of complex cyber attacks.