Aberdeen Group Identifies OpenService SIM Customer as ''Top 10 Practitioner'' in IT Security Governance Report.

WESTBOROUGH, Mass. -- Sonnenschein, Nath and Rosenthal recognized as having "adopted information controls that would be the envy of many other organizations"

OpenService(TM), Inc, a leader in enterprise security management software, today announced that Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal, LLP, a national law firm and user of OpenService's security information management (SIM) software, was identified by the Aberdeen Group as a leading security governance practitioner in a recent report.

The report shows that the OpenService software solutions "have given decision-makers the visibility and clarity they lacked several years ago before they deployed the solution." Analyzing the results, Aberdeen Group reports that "(T)he metrics the firm developed indicate dramatic reductions in incidents and harmful business impacts, as well as greater control over information and responses. Most importantly, the firm is now managing its security programs on an exception basis instead of reacting to every event."

The report, Best Practices in Security: Governance, concludes that security governance is a way to tame the Internet, maintain control of sensitive customer and corporate data, and manage the exception cases, instead of trying to manage everything manually. According to the report, security governance enables its adherents to:

--Implement and monitor policies both inside and outside the organization

--Manage business agility and risk on an exceptional basis; and

--Optimize knowledge, controls and procedures to avoid an imbalance at either end of the spectrum, between too much agility and too much risk.

"Security governance is becoming a `best practice' for these firms because of the need to align resources and capabilities to improve security performance and compliance results," according to John Fontanella, Aberdeen Group's senior vice president and research director. "Companies that master information security practices are focused tightly on managing the performance of their programs by acceptable business risk thresholds, reducing unknown risks, and prioritizing the actions they take based on the business impact of security risks."

Sonnenschein uses OpenService's Security Threat Manager (STM) to effectively and efficiently manage security operations. STM correlates events from firewalls, IDS, anti-virus and network devices with enterprise vulnerability metrics, asset values and business services. Its security information management (SIM) architecture automatically consolidates, manages and escalates threats in real-time, easily scaling up to worldwide log event correlation implementations. STM's security information management system delivers centralized management of risks, vulnerabilities, real-time events and post-attack forensics. It enables security reporting, analysis and reporting for Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, Basel II, FISMA, FFIEC and Visa CISP compliance audits.

About Aberdeen Group

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About OpenService

OpenService is the leader in real-time security management software. The company helps global enterprises and government organizations turn deployed security systems into effective enterprise protection. OpenService's enterprise management software solutions employ highly distributed architectures to collect, monitor, consolidate and correlate millions of network and security events per day, in real time. OpenService's software solutions provide a blended view of security and network metrics to effectively manage threats and prove legislative standards compliance. Enterprise customers using OpenService's software solutions include Argonne National Labs, Citigroup, Connexion by Boeing, Sonnenschein Nath and Rosenthal, Visa, and many others in the Fortune 500. For more information, call 508-599-2000 or visit http://www.openservice.com.