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A Proven and Recognized SolutionThe value of industry and financial analysts, as market bellwethers is indisputable. Their comments offer educated forecast and external validation of the direction, vigor and emerging trends experienced by companies, the technologies they provide, and the economic and business needs those technologies address. The evidence is undeniable. Event log analysis and management has risen to become one of the most important economically impacting rising trends, directly affecting enterprise IT professionals and their need to cost-effectively meet compliance and investigation requirements. Scalability, large-scale analytics, multi-terabytes…. have become predominant buzzwords and SenSage’s ESA is uniquely positioned to meet the challenge. Read what the experts are saying about us.
We were impressed with the design from the start. Built without relying on any relational database, SenSage nevertheless creates an SQL-compatible repository that combines speed, optimized storage, built-in reports and dynamic drill-down investigation capability. Graphs of our scalability test data were impressively flat curves, so you can add processing resources incrementally as log data and queries grow.
Tools designed for security event management (SEM) / security operations may have outgrown their usefulness. Risks associated with sophisticated threats, insider violations and compliance guidelines mean that larger customers must amass, retain and analyze more bulk audit data over greater periods of time against a larger number of sources. These characteristics can go beyond the capabilities and proficiency of homegrown or commercial SEM transaction-centric approaches. ESG believes the combination of new requirements and mismatched tools has created a more evolved security management platform. SDSS focused on data management and analytic features to extend audit, investigation, and compliance reporting activities. SDSS may seem like a new concept, but there are already examples available such as SenSage and its Security Compliance Bundle featuring EMC Centera.
With the increasing number of regulations such as the SOX, HIPAA and others, a new generation of products has come to market to help companies maintain compliance. One of these is SenSage’s SenSage 3.5, which includes a new management console, extended clustering with high availability and enhanced reporting and analytics. But most important, SenSage 3.5 enforces SOX compliance and many other standards.
“Regulatory issues will be a significant driver for event log analysis projects through 2007 and 2008 – for example, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), Section 501(b), and subsequent guidance from the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council, which advises that, “Financial institutions should take reasonable steps to ensure that sufficient data is collected from secure log files to identify and respond to security incidents and to monitor and enforce policy compliance.”
“Data volume and scalability are significant and frequent deployment issues. The aggregation, correlation and indexing/storage of a high volume of security events in real time represents a significant deployment challenge. In addition, SIEM tools, especially when the focus is on long-term storage of data, require large storage capacity, in many cases multi-terabytes of space.”
“We believe that security remains a healthy spending area with CIOs willing to “spend to defend” their IT infrastructure. Thus, we expect security spending to be more resistant to lulls in corporate spending that may plague other categories. We project growth in the security sector of 15%+ over the next three years to continue to outpace the broader software sector, growing in the mid- to high-single-digit range.”….“Event management is a space that thus far appears to be relatively amenable to smaller, niche vendors that have little or no agenda to promote their own security offerings.”…….“This week, we heard positive buzz, about small, private companies in security management such as SenSage…..”
“SenSage focuses on providing technology for large-scale log data analytics and recently introduced support for real-time event management….. SenSage (formerly Addamark Technologies) is building out from its installed base, composed mainly of organizations that use the product for internal investigations and reporting related to regulatory compliance. SenSage has just recently introduced support for real-time event-data correlation and alerting.”
“SenSage is optimized for organizations seeking to use large online log data, enabling high performance event collection, investigation and reporting. The system uniquely supports regulatory data retention and verification requirements, using an architecture that compresses the original source data, maintains its integrity and optimizes complex queries. This is useful for organizations that need all original event data to be available for analytics. SenSage has developed analytics and reporting for SOX, HIPAA, Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council, Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 and other regulations. SenSage has explicit support for SAP, PeopleSoft, Siebel, Lawson and packaged healthcare applications from Cerner and McKesson.”
“The Yankee Group views security event management (SEM) solutions, which currently provide centralized logging and reporting of security events, as a pivot within the larger market for security products and services. SEM is a modest $250 million market today. However, the Yankee Group forecasts 30% growth in 2005 to $330 million and convergence with network, systems management, audit and compliance spaces in the next 3 to 5 years.” Industry technology analyst or market research analyst seeking information about SenSage, or desiring a briefing with key SenSage executives, should contact our Analyst Relations department at analyst.relations@sensage.com. |
SC Magazine, March 1, 2006
Enterprise Strategy Group, December 28, 2005
Computer Reseller News, November 7, 2005
Yankee Group, January 25, 2005