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ArcSight Announces Entry Into European Security Market

ArcSight announced the launch of its United Kingdom-based EMEA operations. Its security solution will enable EMEA customers to integrate the mass of isolated products that handle specific security tasks across the organization, and convert them into a fully coordinated and optimized security management system. This will significantly improve IT protection and increase the productivity of the security function.

The typical enterprise experiences upwards of 50 million security events each day from a wide variety of devices. Such extreme, disconnected volumes of data prevent accurate analysis and response due to data overload and false indications of threats.

With today's news, ArcSight becomes the first security information management provider in the EMEA market with the ability to collate every source of security data into a comprehensive and coherent global security monitoring and response system.

In addition, its patented TrueThreat technology correlates security alarms and alerts from multiple devices in real time, connecting seemingly disparate events to identify areas of potential internal and external risk.

"Companies that aggressively installed firewalls, intrusion detection systems, anti virus and even application-level security now have mountains of data, but no true intelligence about the threats they face. With attacks continuing to increase and the growing need for security-based compliance initiatives, senior executives today recognize that security is an enterprise issue," said Iain Chidgey, managing director of ArcSight EMEA. "ArcSight delivers the first enterprise software solution that brings much-needed efficiency, process control and timely attack remediation to securing information assets."

ArcSight has established its EMEA headquarters in London as a response to the global nature of the security challenge and the growing demand for sophisticated management software from major international organizations. Its operations will be led by EMEA managing director, Iain Chidgey. He joins the company from ADC Software Systems where he was responsible for business development across the EMEA region. Chidgey's previous experience includes senior EMEA and U.S. positions at Portal Software and Oracle.

ArcSight also announced Energis as one of a growing number of EMEA-based organizations seeing the potential business and technology benefits of ArcSight's security information management solution.

Malcolm Seagrave, security expert, Energis said: "With the increasing sophistication of internal and external attacks, it is imperative to deploy a solution that provides both a complete view of the network, and the level of intelligence to ensure threat correlation and pattern discovery. Our customers are some of the UK's leading organizations and public institutions, as such we demand high standards from our suppliers on their behalf; ArcSight's comprehensive offering matched our customers' requirements."

Mark Nicolett, research leader of security and privacy at Gartner said: "Enterprise security management solutions have now consolidated the islands of defense that large organizations have accumulated, and provide greater efficiency and effectiveness for the security organization. Security management becomes a strategic application when it connects the security function with the overall corporate mission, converting security from a defensive and reactive activity to one that provides integrated operational support for critical business applications."

Unlike security solutions that monitor data or provide historical reporting, ArcSight is designed to monitor, investigate, resolve and report on threats and attacks across the network -- all from within one environment. ArcSight supports all the popular security devices and information sources and its Distributed Security Architecture provides scaling to multi-site/multi-user deployment rolled into a single enterprise view.

The ArcSight solution comprises four main areas:

"ArcSight is a global solution with a customer base that reflects its cutting edge approach to security information management. From Apple, Verizon and several government agencies in the US, to companies such as the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi in the international region, we are solving an immediate enterprise need for large organizations across the world. The opening of the new EMEA office is central to our global strategy and we look forward to a very successful future," concluded Chidgey.