EMC Unveils New Solution Aimed at Dramatically Advancing IT and Security Operations
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Integrated EMC Voyence®Control and RSA enVision® Solution Delivers Unique Capabilities for Compliance, Risk Management and Cost Control
SAN FRANCISCO, April 7, 2008 / -- RSA® Conference 2008 -- EMC (NYSE:EMC), the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced the availability of a new integrated solution aimed at bridging the IT and security operations functions in support of improved compliance, risk management and cost control. The solution is based on EMC's Voyence®Control product for Network Change and Configuration Management (NCCM) and the RSA enVision® product for Security Information and Event Management (SIEM).
For the IT operations professional, this solution is designed to provide the means to define and enforce configuration security standards and to automatically conduct compliance tests on a regular basis. Successfully automating these policies along with standardized network configuration management ensures data is available and secure would eliminate business risk from non-compliant devices. This would result in fewer service outages and reduced costs associated with Service Level Agreement (SLA) penalties and trouble ticket processing.
For the security operations professional, the solution is engineered to provide three major benefits:
1) ensuring that network assets are configured to reliably forward all log events to enVision (this is a cornerstone of compliance reporting using SIEM solutions);
2) immediately detecting changes to network asset configurations and sending such changes to enVision to evaluate potential security risks associated with those changes; and
3) for those changes deemed inappropriate invoke a workflow-enabled process, closing the loop and remediating the configuration to a secure and compliant state and actively configuring the device as required.
"Whether you're looking at it from an IT operations or security operations perspective, today's announcement is really a win-win for all our customers," said Chris Gahagan, EMC's Senior Vice President, Resource Management Software. "For both audiences, the integrated solution addresses the shared challenge of cost-effective IT service delivery. This includes ensuring the flow of necessary information between disparate work teams and the availability of expanded information to quickly drive reliable decision-making."
John Worrall, Vice President and General Manager of RSA's Information & Event Management Group said, "With the blizzard of log events in a customer enterprise, security vulnerabilities that arise from misconfigured IT systems are difficult to detect and remediate. This integrated solution is designed to give IT operations and security operations teams a more complete and efficient way to demonstrate compliance and manage security risks."
The joint solution is being exhibited exclusively at the RSA Conference 2008 in San Francisco. RSA's information risk management solutions, services and partners will be featured in Booths #1717 and 1817 at RSA Conference 2008, April 7-11, 2008, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.
About EMC
EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC) is the world's leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions that enable organizations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and create value from their information. Information about EMC's products and services can be found at http://www.emc.com/.
Source: EMC Corporation
CONTACT: Craig Librett of EMC Corporation, +1-914-806-2809, Librett_craig@emc.com; or Matthew Buckley for RSA, The Security Division of EMC, +1-781-515-6262, Buckley_matt@emc.com
Web site: http://www.emc.com/
