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Does any of this sound familiar? Do you spend anywhere between 30 minutes and 2 hours per day performing administrative tasks that have nothing to do with securing your infrastructure? Do you find yourself spending only 90 minutes per day actually reviewing and planning security? We feel your pain.

When your time on task is this limited, it’s essential that your focus is exactly where it can provide the most benefit to the business. The FireScope solution dramatically increases your visibility into the security issues confronting your organization, allowing you to concentrate on remediation and plan for the future.

How can FireScope Help?

• Gain new insight.

  Establishing effective security and enterprise performance requires you to know everything that's going on within your infrastructure, as it happens. FireScope aggregates the data from any application, system, database, and/or point solution to give you the complete picture. Using the latest Web 2.0 technologies, FireScope delivers information in real-time with little to no learning curve.

• Harden your enterprise

  Just as with people, technology that works together is more effective than the sum of its individual parts. With FireScope providing the glue to bind your individual point solutions, systems, databases and networked devices together, you make a significant step toward defending your business from the security threats of tomorrow.

An extensible on-demand platform.

FireScope offers a powerful platform that was designed specifically for flexibility and extensibility. As your enterprise grows and introduces new technologies, FireScope seamlessly integrates the new sources of data with the existing aggregated intelligence to enhance the value of information provided.

Consolidate your solutions.

A typical IT organization can utilize in upwards of fifteen point-solutions to attempt to identify and monitor the changing conditions within an infrastructure. FireScope aggregates the information and events detected by these point-solutions into a single, real-time dashboard. This decreases the time between detection of an issue and restoration of service.

Ensure rapid and effective implementations

Simplicity was a key element we focused on when developing FireScope, especially considering it was born from the frustrations of IT Operations people who struggled to make complex, disparate systems work together. As a direct result, our appliances are designed for rapid deployment with typically installations completing in just a few days. Once deployed, FireScope requires no specialized training or dedicated staffing and is virtually maintenance free.

Make your life easier.

• Communicate more effectively.

  FireScope’s built-in collaboration features make it easy to alert colleagues at remote locations or other shifts to ongoing security incidents or systems to keep an eye on.

• React to new threats faster.

  With FireScope looking at your entire environment, you can identify issues based on of the symptoms involved, dramatically increasing your time to detection.

• Eliminate the tedious tasks.

  No one likes reading log files, or scanning for root-kits. Let FireScope perform these tedious tasks for you and focus your time on the tasks that directly impact security.

Additional Resources

Realizing improved security and performance through IT Operations data aggregation

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 advantages to a pre-installed open source security appliance

What happens when you integrate the best open source security solutions, combine their collected data with your own existing security and network management point solutions and wrap it together with a real-time, web-based user interface powered by industry leading business intelligence?

Behind the Scenes Inside FireScope

Rather than reinventing the wheel, FireScope's developers harnessed the power of the industry’s best open source security applications, and then took them to a new level by combining their abilities into a single appliance, built on a hardened Linux distribution to ensure its own security and reliability. Four main subsystems complete the FireScope solution.

Effective Security Starts with Effective Business Intelligence

In today's constantly evolving information technology environment, new threats to the availability and security of a network can appear out of nowhere. And while there are is a multitude of security solutions on the market that are effective at protecting you from the threats identified yesterday, the new threats of today and tomorrow are often difficult to prepare for. For this reason alone, it's absolutely essential that organizations maintain a thorough understanding of the state of all critical IT assets at all times. Unfortunately, this can be a daunting task.

Get the Benefits of Open Source without the Pain

Open source security applications have made a significant impact on the industry. Developed over the years by thousands of die hard programmers with diverse backgrounds and thoroughly tested by security experts in the field, few proprietary solutions come close to meeting the capabilities of the best open source security applications. However, open source applications are not without their own weaknesses.

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