Friday, 2 March 2007

Appliances Defend Networks Against Hackers

High Tower, a provider of security event management solutions, has introduced a new generation of protection for companies seeking to defend their networks against hackers and other unauthorised intrusions. The company announced the latest version of its family of SEM appliances that help security analysts identify critical threats in real-time and reduce the risk associated with unauthorised access to network resources and data, as per a statement issued by the company.

"It's become increasingly important for us to implement rules and procedures that target specific needs, without impacting the overall network," said Peter Rios, Management Information Systems Network Manager at Kingston Technology Company. "The new features High Tower has developed as part of its SEM appliance system allow us to further improve the efficiency of our security team by getting the right information about critical events to the right people immediately, enabling them to quickly pinpoint and act on potential threats to the network."

According to the company, the features include:

• Enables user to schedule any report to be run at pre-scheduled intervals, even when the user is not logged in
• Automatically notifies users (and groups of users) about incidents based on criteria such as time, assets involved, rules involved, and incident severity
• Allows the import and export of customised lists for use in generating or suppressing incidents