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ArcSight's Raffael Marty Appointed To MITRE OVAL Board

ArcSight Inc, a leading provider of enterprise security risk management software, announced that Raffael Marty, CISSP, has been appointed to the OVAL (Open Vulnerability Assessment Language) Board. Marty joins security veterans from industry leaders including Cisco Systems, IBM and Symantec, and U.S. government leaders including the Defense Information Systems Agency, the National Security Agency and the CERT Coordination Center. Marty's role will be to provide OVAL a complete, high-level view of network security status, including issues such as correlation and prioritization of security events, as security event management continues to emerge as a critical component of network security.

"Security event management is a key driver of innovation in the security industry," said Matthew N. Wojcik, senior INFOSEC engineer and OVAL team editor at MITRE. "OVAL is excited to have Raffael on our board, as he has demonstrated industry leadership, especially in the field of threat taxonomy."

OVAL is based on Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures, a dictionary of standardized names and descriptions for publicly known information security vulnerabilities and exposures developed by The MITRE Corporation in cooperation with the international security community. MITRE is a not-for-profit national resource that provides systems engineering, research and development, and information technology support to the government. The OVAL effort was initiated by MITRE, and involves representatives from a broad spectrum of industry, academia, and government organizations, including operating system and security tool vendors.

"We're thrilled that Raffael has been asked to participate in MITRE's OVAL efforts," said Hugh Njemanze, CTO and founder of ArcSight Inc. "We're looking forward to helping add our security event management innovation to OVAL's groundbreaking work to date."

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