Symantechas provided
a 2007 roadmap for the development of its enterprise security
information management systems.
Sandeep Kumar, recently appointed as senior director for product
management at Symantec’s compliance and security management group,
has revealed a host of developments at the firm.
Kumar said, “Our solutions provide proactive policy enforcement
and remediation, automated content management, and a consolidated
view of compliance to multiple standards, frameworks, and laws.
He said Symantec had just launched a major update to Symantec
Security Information Manager. “The SSIM 4.5 release is
revolutionary in the sense that it provides a unified threat and
log management product along with real-time compliance reporting,”
said Kumar.
Both log archival and correlation performance have increased
four times since the last release, he said, and users can now
process more than 12,000 events per second on a single
appliance.
The product, which monitors security across corporate networks,
supports over 110 third-party event collectors for perimeter
security devices, enterprise middleware and applications, OS and
database logs, endpoint security products, and access and identity
management systems.
Later in 2007 there will also be new and improved
high-availability features, a web-based portal for the platform,
and asset and risk management features, said Kumar.
“We’re also working on a very innovative project that will
elevate the product from security incident management to business
operations and information incident management,” said Kumar.
There will also be improvements to the Symantec Control Compliance
Suite (CCS) this spring.
CCS 8.5 with Policy Module 8.5 will include entitlement
reporting and attestation, dashboard enhancements, policy
templates, and sample policies, among other features.
In addition, the forthcoming Symantec Enterprise Security
Manager 6.5.3 version will provide enhancements in reporting,
manager scalability and agent-manager encryption.
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