CorreLog Announces IBM z/OS Integration to McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator for Real-time Mainframe Log Management

Naples, FL (PRWEB) June 18, 2012

CorreLog, the leader in software solutions for IT security event correlation, today announced integration between its IBM z/OS mainframe agent and the McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) platform. The integration is highly applicable to financial services, retail/hospitality, health care, and government sectors that store massive quantities of credit card, HIPAA, or other compliance standards-related data (FISMA, NERC, Sarbanes-Oxley, etc) in mainframe environments. IBM mainframe integration to ePO allows CISOs access to a wider swath of message log data at their fingertips to proactively manage cyber-threat and malware across their entire enterprises. A key component of the integration is the CorreLog z/OS Mainframe Agent which can convert critical SMF events (invalid logins and denied resource notifications) to Syslog in real time, straight into ePO. To minimize enterprise bandwidth, CorreLog correlates multiple mainframe events into a single event for passing over to ePO.

Facebook, Twitter, University of Nebraska, Utah Department of Health, another attack at the US Department of Justice these are just a small sample of the attacks in the past few weeks, said George Faucher, president and CEO of CorreLog. Clearly the bad guys are out there on a mission, and the only way to combat the threat is to be proactive and have a platform like ePO for managing all threats across all systems, regardless of platform or device.

CorreLog is a certified McAfee ePO partner and has integrated its solution with the McAfee ePO security management platform using a software development kit (SDK), followed by comprehensive testing by McAfee. This integration allows organizations of any size to proactively monitor and manage IT security and regulatory compliance from a single console.

The CorreLog agent for IBM z/OS mainframe assures mainframe compliance with FISMA, PCI DSS, HIPAA, NERC, and Sarbanes-Oxley. It forwards security, RACF, ACF2, DB2, TCP/IP, job and database events to the ePO console and is compatible with all current releases of z/OS. The agent installs in just a few hours and uses just a few seconds of CPU time per day. For more information on the CorreLog IBM z/OS agent and its certified integration to ePO, please visit http://bit.ly/Ll0bOk.

About CorreLog:

CorreLog, Inc. is the leading independent software vendor (ISV) for IT security log management and event correlation. CorreLog’s flagship product, the CorreLog Enterprise Server, combines log management, Syslog, Syslog-NG, SNMP, auto-learning functions, neural network modeling, proprietary semantic correlation, automated help-desk ticketing and reporting functions into a unique multi-platform security solution. CorreLog Enterprise Server operates across Windows, UNIX, Linux and mainframe platforms, shipping with an out-of-box PCI DSS compliant CorreLog agent for IBM z/OS, the worlds most popular mainframe operating system.

CorreLog delivers an essential viewpoint via dashboard console, providing verifiable and actionable information on the activity of users, devices, and applications to proactively meet organizational SLAs and regulatory requirements. Additionally, CorreLog automatically identifies and responds to any suspicious behavior, network attacks, or policy violations by indexing and correlating user activity and event logs, then archives the data in an enterprise server system location. This allows customer organizations to quickly identify then proactively respond to compliance violations, policy breaches, cyber-attacks and insider threats. For auditing and forensics, CorreLog facilitates regulatory requirements set forth by PCI DSS, HIPAA, SOX, FISMA, NERC, NCUA, and many other standards. CorreLog markets its solutions through both direct and indirect partner channels.

CorreLog Announces IBM z/OS Integration to McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator for Real-time Mainframe Log Management

Westinghouse Selects McAfee Siem and IPS as Core Security Components to Address Threats to Control Systems

Pittsburgh, Pa. (PRWEB) October 24, 2012

Westinghouse Electric Company and McAfee today announce that the two companies have entered into a worldwide agreement in which Westinghouse will provide McAfee Enterprise Security Manager and Network Intrusion Prevention Systems to currently operating nuclear power plants having digital control systems and new plants under construction around the world.

The agreement enables Westinghouse to offer its customers stronger attack detection and prevention capabilities through security information and event management, and intrusion prevention specifically designed to address architectural and threat concerns to nuclear power plant control systems.

This agreement will help us to deliver cyber security in accordance with some of our industry associations best practices and guidelines, said David Howell, senior vice president of Westinghouse Nuclear Automation. We are pleased to team with McAfee and expand our capabilities to help our customers maintain cyber security for digital control systems at both operating nuclear plants and those currently under construction.

Westinghouse selected McAfee after thoroughly evaluating, testing and certifying its systems. McAfee Enterprise Security Manager provides deep security visibility for stronger attack detection and incident response, including threats specific to nuclear plant control systems. McAfee Network Intrusion Prevention provides advanced threat prevention designed specifically for control systems architectures. Together, the two solutions protect control systems from direct threats and attacks launched through corporate network connections. The two systems are regulatory compliant nationally and in countries throughout the world.

“This partnership is a great step in the essential fight to keep critical infrastructure safe,” said Ken Levine, senior vice president and general manager of McAfee Risk and Compliance. “We applaud Westinghouse in leading the nuclear industry by integrating essential security components into their control system. Our selection as the security solution partner of Westinghouse is a testament to our solutions performance and manageability, as well as the extensive investment in research and development weve made in the security of control systems.”

Westinghouse Electric Company, a group company of Toshiba Corporation (TKY:6502), is the world’s pioneering nuclear energy company and is a leading supplier of nuclear plant products and technologies to utilities throughout the world. Westinghouse supplied the world’s first pressurized water reactor in 1957 in Shippingport, Pa., USA. Today, Westinghouse technology is the basis for approximately one-half of the world’s operating nuclear plants, including 60 percent of those in the United States.

McAfee, a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel Corporation, is the world’s largest dedicated security technology company. McAfee delivers proactive and proven solutions and services that help secure systems, networks, and mobile devices around the world, allowing users to safely connect to the Internet, browse and shop the Web more securely. Backed by its unrivaled Global Threat Intelligence, McAfee creates innovative products that empower home users, businesses, the public sector and service providers by enabling them to prove compliance with regulations, protect data, prevent disruptions, identify vulnerabilities, and continuously monitor and improve their security. McAfee is relentlessly focused on constantly finding new ways to keep its customers safe.

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AlgoSec Achieves McAfee Compatible Status in the McAfee Security Innovation Alliance

Boston, MA (PRWEB) November 27, 2012

AlgoSec, the market leader for Network Security Policy Management, today announced that it has integrated the AlgoSec Security Management Suite with McAfee Firewall Enterprise to provide intelligent automation of policy analysis, risk assessment, audit and compliance and change monitoring. As a result, the AlgoSec Security Management Suite has achieved McAfee Compatible status. AlgoSec will also participate in the McAfee Security Innovation Alliance Sales Teaming Program to drive more complete security solution relationships with enterprise customers.

The AlgoSec Security Management Suite simplifies and consolidates the management of complex policies from traditional and next-generation firewalls, VPNs, routers, proxies and related security devices from multiple vendors, for increased operational efficiency and tighter security. AlgoSec streamlines McAfee Firewall Enterprise operations with complete visibility and analysis of all rules, objects, and changes. Risks and their associated rules in the McAfee Firewall Enterprise policy are uncovered, prioritized, and mitigated. AlgoSec automatically generates compliance reports for the widest variety of corporate and regulatory standards, such as PCI-DSS, Sarbanes-Oxley, and ISO 27001 at the click of a button, greatly reducing audit preparation cost and effort. Additionally, AlgoSec can improve McAfee Firewall Enterprise performance by discovering redundant and unused rules to eliminate policy bloat.

Manually managing firewall policies can be time-consuming and error prone, creating significant overhead for security teams and introducing risk into network security environments, said Nimmy Reichenberg, Vice President, Marketing and Business Development, AlgoSec. We are excited to seamlessly integrate with McAfee Firewall Enterprise and extend AlgoSecs automation of network security policy management to McAfee customers, providing an efficient way to ensure their firewalls are securely and optimally configured.

Were pleased to see AlgoSec complete McAfee compatibility testing, said Ed Barry, vice president of the Security Innovation Alliance, McAfee. Automating the analysis and management of network security policies is a high priority for many of our customers. The integration of AlgoSec Security Management Suite with McAfee Firewall Enterprise will enable our joint customers to reduce operational burden and costs, while reducing risk and simplifying auditing and compliance.

McAfee Firewall Enterprise defends critical assets, such as regulated data repositories (customer, financial, and healthcare data), email and web servers, extranets, and data centers. This high-assurance firewall also offers strong next-generation firewall capabilities, including application visibility and deep application controls for defense. It delivers strong policy-based controls, blocks the latest threats, and eliminates unwanted traffic. For more information on the McAfee Security Innovation Alliance and McAfee Firewall Enterprise, please visit: http://www.mcafee.com/sia and http://www.mcafee.com/firewall.

About AlgoSec

AlgoSec is the market leader in network security policy management. AlgoSec enables security and operations teams to intelligently automate the policy management of firewalls, routers, VPNs, proxies and related security devices, improving operational efficiency, ensuring compliance and reducing risk.

More than 1000 of the worlds leading enterprises, MSSPs, auditors and consultancies rely on AlgoSec Security Management Suite for unmatched automation of firewall operations, auditing and compliance, risk analysis and the security change workflow.

AlgoSec is committed to the success of every single customer, and offers the industry’s only money-back guarantee.

For more information, visit AlgoSec.com.

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