Realizing improved security and performance through IT Operations data aggregation
The Challenge:
You’ve already spent considerable amounts of time and money deploying the best security point solutions ranging from anti-virus, firewalls, intrusion detection systems and more to ensure the security of your enterprise. Everything is fully patched and configured using only best practices. Yet, questions remain. Are all of these systems working effectively at protecting your infrastructure? Each of these systems has its own control interface and logging system, but few organizations have an IT department large enough to adequately monitor the gigabytes of log files and data generated every day. To effectively ensure adequate security on an ongoing basis, businesses need the capability to aggregate all of these disparate security solutions and generate actionable information on a real-time basis.
The FireScope Solution:
FireScope was designed just for this situation. In addition to its own security and performance monitoring tools, FireScope can analyze the data (log files, WMI metrics, etc.) of most security and management point solutions and provide users with a single, real-time interface for all their security, availability and performance needs.
No matter if you are using Snort, Airtight SpectraGuard , Cisco PIX firewalls, Tivoli, HP Openview or Norton Anti-Virus, FireScope can collect their raw data in real-time, analyze it for critical security or performance events, and deliver it to the personnel best qualified to react.
The advantages to centralized threat analysis are considerable. In addition to the time saved from checking each point solution’s data individually, FireScope provides a consolidated, real-time view allowing you to see an issue from every angle which sheds light on activities that might normally go undetected.
A snort rule may have flagged an incoming connection as being potentially dangerous but not a known threat, while your web server started receiving repeated failed attempts to access system resources. Separately, neither event may hold much meaning. However, when put side by side, allowing you to recognize that both events were triggered by the same host, the full nature of the threat becomes obvious. This is but one example of the effectiveness of aggregating security information into a single solution.
Learn more about how FireScope can improve the effectiveness of your existing security and management solutions by scheduling a demonstration today.
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