Log Data Management Solution promotes regulation compliance.October 10, 2007 -
Complementary to Cisco® Security Monitoring, Analysis, and Response System (MARS), SenSage provides set of event data warehouse capabilities and user-access monitoring features. Turnkey log management and compliance solution collects and correlates event data from hundreds of heterogeneous sources. Combining SenSage with Cisco MARS functionality, businesses can achieve capabilities needed to effectively execute compliance reporting, event correlation, and long-term data storage.
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Original Press release
SenSage, Inc.
55 Hawthorne St.
San Francisco, CA, 94105
USA
SenSage Software Provides Cisco MARS Customers Enhanced Log Data Management Solution to Meet Compliance Requirements
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 25 -- Responding to the growing compliance requirements for quick access to stored data, SenSage, Inc. is offering a complementary solution that provides Cisco(R) Security Monitoring, Analysis and Response System (MARS) customers with a broad set of event data warehouse capabilities.
Many organizations are realizing that collecting and storing log data has become a complex and expensive task that can quickly overwhelm a traditional security information and event management (SIEM) system. A typical enterprise can collect gigabytes of log data per day, which can quickly grow into terabytes over weeks and months. Analyzing log data and executing useful reports to meet auditor requirements can take days or weeks depending on data volume and the complexity of the search.
SenSage offers unique and patented solutions to provide comprehensive event data warehousing for log management and compliance. The company has developed a turnkey log management and compliance solution that complements Cisco MARS capabilities by collecting and correlating event data from hundreds of heterogeneous sources not collected by Cisco MARS. Compliance requirements for Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) and other regulations require tracking access to sensitive data and changes to user access rights that products such as Cisco MARS do not support. SenSage also effectively replaces the requirement for Cisco MARS customers to license additional Cisco MARS archive servers to support compliance requirements for longer data retention.
"As global regulatory requirements and guidelines become more stringent, the need to quickly and easily access long-term data from sources beyond network infrastructure is no longer optional. Instead, this has become a mainstream requirement for businesses," said Ed Chopskie, vice president of corporate marketing, SenSage. "By combining the strengths of SenSage with Cisco MARS functionality, businesses can cost-effectively achieve the capabilities needed to effectively execute compliance reporting, event correlation and long-term data storage."
Working with dozens of Cisco MARS implementations, SenSage has developed a complementary log management solution for Cisco MARS customers that provides a comprehensive event warehouse to support a broader footprint of source types (including applications and databases), substantially improved data retention, and greatly enhanced data analytics for compliance reporting and user-access monitoring.
PFF Bank and Trust of Rancho Cucamonga, California, part of PFF Bancorp, Inc. (NYSE:PFB), has implemented a SenSage solution with Cisco MARS to deploy real-time security information management to detect internal and external attacks targeting numerous systems and applications, system configurations and user account changes to support numerous compliance initiatives PFF Bank and Trust's Jim Lairmore, information security manager, will conduct a "Lunch and Learn" presentation at the SANS Network Security conference in Las Vegas on September 26, discussing the bank's experiences with this solution and how PFF is now compliant with regulations such as Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS), Sarbanes-Oxley and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA).
Event data records -- also known as log data -- are created whenever time-stamped transactions occur in the enterprise IT infrastructure. The retention of log data and the ability for corporations to quickly inspect these records have become vital to businesses, not only for meeting audit readiness and regulatory compliance, but in detecting suspicious activity, insider threats and other security breaches.
To learn more about SenSage for Cisco MARS, please visit http://sensage.com/English/Products/Cisco_MARS.html
SenSage software is well suited to meet customer demands in highly regulated, transaction-intensive industries, including energy, finance, healthcare and government. For more information on industry-specific solutions, please visit http://sensage.com/English/Solutions/solutions-compliance.htm.
About SenSage
SenSage, Inc., http://www.sensage.com/, offers the only patented event data warehousing solution for log management and compliance auditing applications. Over 250 customers have deployed SenSage solutions to reduce the risks associated with insider threats, system downtime and failed audits by providing faster, more granular analysis of privileged user behavior and analyzing anomalies across network, system and application activity. Based in San Francisco, the company markets its solutions directly and through partners, including Cerner, EMC, HP, HDS, IBM, Intec Billing Systems, Lockheed Martin, Network Appliance, Sendmail, Symantec and Tokyo Electron Device.
CONTACT: Samantha Singh of The Hoffman Agency, +1-408-975-3087, ssingh@hoffman.com, for SenSage, Inc.; or Ed Chopskie, VP of Corporate Marketing of SenSage, Inc., +1-415-808-5903, ed.chopskie@sensage.com
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