San Francisco-based Addamark Technologies will introduce
the latest version of its specialised database for log information,
with new features designed to address the data-retention
requirements of laws such as Sarbanes-Oxley.
Omnisight 2.0 will allow companies to collect, compress, store
and review event data collected from an array of systems and
security devices, said Kevin Harahan, director of product security
at Addamark.
The captured information can include application and transaction
logs, web activities and security event data.
Omnisight also offers capabilities for identifying violations of
corporate policies, reviewing suspicious systems activity and
performing forensic analysis for security purposes,.
Addamark is not the only company offering such tools.
Intellitactics, a supplier of software for correlating different
security incidents, last month added a storage component designed
to preserve raw data about security events in a compressed
form.
Consul Risk Management offers a similar product. Prices for the
tools typically start at about $50,000.
Forrester Research analyst Michael Rasmussen said compressing
terabytes of raw log data to a fraction of its original size is
much cheaper and more efficient than storing it in traditional
relational databases.
Jaikumar Vijayan writes for Computerworld
