Events from award-winning anti-virus solution boosts Security
Threat Manager's real-time threat correlation solution
Sophos, a world leader in anti-virus solutions for businesses,
announced that OpenService™, Inc. (Open), the leader in network
security management software and real-time correlation solutions,
has integrated Sophos's ability to defend the most complex networks
with dependability and accuracy with Open's enterprise-wide
security event management solution, giving security operators
comprehensive, timely and actionable insight into all virus, worm
and hacker activity on their networks.
Recent high-profile attacks have only increased the visibility
of businesses at risk posed by hackers taking advantage of newly
announced vulnerabilities. "Early warning of the scale and impact
of viruses and worms such as Blaster and Slammer are vital to
minimizing the impact of such outbreaks to businesses," said Phil
Hollows, VP Product Marketing, OpenService Inc. "By adding events
from Sophos's world-class enterprise anti-virus technology to our
security event management solution, security teams benefit from
real-time warnings of new outbreaks, a single console to manage and
consolidate events from Sophos and other sources such as firewalls
and intrusion detection systems, and the ability to correlate virus
attacks with other hacker activity."
Sophos anti-virus solutions deliver comprehensive virus
detection and disinfection of viruses, worms and Trojans. It checks
local hard disks, removable media and networks, operating in
on-access and on-demand modes. Its unique architecture
intelligently determines which files need to be virus checked with
minimal performance overhead.
"Managing and protecting complex operations environments
effectively has become a challenge," said Chris Belthoff, Senior
Security Analyst at Sophos, Inc. "The ability to quickly identify
and deal with true security threats is critical. With Open's
security event management solution, organizations can take a
proactive approach by monitoring applications automatically, in
real-time."
The key to effective security event management is real-time
correlation integrating data from all security systems. Security
Threat Manager from Open is a sophisticated, scalable security
correlation solution that delivers prioritized real-time threat
assessments, so security operations teams are always working on the
most important attacks. Quick, easy and smart yet powerful, robust
and scalable Open's Security Threat Manager™ deploys painlessly
with low ongoing maintenance demands, keeping security teams
focused on their core mission. Matching real-time threat
identification and dynamic triage with interactive multidimensional
analyses and reports, it offers unprecedented integrated insight
into network security infrastructure performance.
About Open
Open is the leader in Network Security Management software. Its
Security Threat Manager™ security event management solution is
based on Open's proven NerveCenter™ and SystemWatch® technologies.
It employs a highly distributed architecture to enable the system
to collect, monitor, consolidate and correlate millions of network
and security events per day, in real time. More than 400 customers
are using Open's software, including Citigroup, Bear Stearns and
Verizon. Open's products are available globally through a network
of VARs and direct sales. A privately held company based in
Westborough, Mass., Open is backed by venture capital and an equity
stake taken by Veritas. For more information, please call
800-892-3646 or visit www.openservice.com.
Sophos is headquartered in Boston, US and Oxford, UK. More information is available at www.sophos.com.