 |
|
DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY /
|
Breaking News -
Security:
High Tower, Foundstone Announce
Comprehensive Partnership
High Tower Software Inc, a provider of Security Event Management (SEM)
solutions, announced its partnership with Foundstone Inc, experts in strategic
security. High Tower and Foundstone will offer product interoperability to
provide organizations with a practical and effective solution for protecting
network-accessible assets in real time. In addition to the technical
integration, the two companies will work together on sales and marketing
activities.
Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs), Firewalls, Authentication Servers,
Routers
and other devices create a constant stream of cryptic and seemingly unrelated
data. The TowerView solution collects that network security device data,
correlates it using High Tower's sophisticated rule set, and displays the
results of the analysis in real time. By automating data analysis, TowerView
reduces false positives, increases accuracy, reconstructs attacker footprints,
and immediately identifies threats to allow action in real-time, before assets
are compromised. The ability of TowerView to integrate the Foundstone
vulnerability assessment data greatly enhances the visibility of events that
impact network security.
How Foundstone Enterprise Risk Solutions (ERS) And High Tower Work
Together
Foundstone ERS probes configured network(s) for vulnerabilities. This
vulnerability information in the Foundstone database is integrated into
TowerView, and is then used to correlate events from Intrusion Detection
devices. For example, if Foundstone discovers a known exploit on a host and an
IDS reports a detected exploit to that host, TowerView will raise a critical
alert. This alert will indicate that the target host is vulnerable to this
type of detected attack. Pulling Foundstone's vulnerability assessment data
into the TowerView patented analytical engine for analysis provides better
insight into the security status by highlighting data and interrelationships
that are actually meaningful. TowerView will also suppress IDS-detected events
that do not apply to the destination host.
"The partnership with High Tower enables both our companies to offer a
broader
security technology solution to our respective customers," said Chris
Kenworthy, Foundstone's executive vice president of Sales and Business
Development. "Foundstone customers can benefit from the intelligence of
TowerView's correlation rules and the intuitive nature of its results, which
are presented in 3D."
"False positives are a common pain point," noted Raj Patel, vice president
of
engineering for High Tower. "Integrating Foundstone's vulnerability assessment
data into TowerView means far less false positives for our customers, and
ensures that alerts really are significant and meaningful."
High Tower and Foundstone have joined together to utilize the strengths of
their security solutions in a synergistic way. The result is a more complete
security solution, one that optimizes system strengths to create a secure
network for the enterprise.
|