BladeFusion Certifies OpenService's Security Threat Manager for IBM eServer BladeCenter ''Security in a Box'' Solution.WESTBOROUGH, Mass. -- Security Threat Manager Enables Easy to Manage, Integrated Threat and Risk Management Running on IBM's e-Server BladeCenter OpenService(TM), Inc, a leader in enterprise security management software, and BladeFusion Technologies Ltd., announce that OpenService's Security Threat Manager (STM (Scanning Tunneling Microscope) A microscope that can image down to the atomic level. An STM uses a piezoelectric tube with a tiny sharp tip at the end that is moved within nanometers of the object being sampled. ) has been jointly certified by BladeFusion and OpenService as a BladeFusion SPE SPE - Software Practice and Experience (TM) Production Ready Application (PRA PRA - PRAgmatics. The language used by COPS for specification of code generators. ["Metalanguages of the Compiler Production System COPS", J. Borowiec, in GI Fachgesprach "Compiler-Compiler", ed W. Henhapl, Tech Hochs Darmstadt 1978, pp. 122-159]. ) for IBM eServer BladeCenter. The PRA certification enables STM to be delivered as a ready-to-run security management application for users of the "Security in a Box" security solution from IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , powered by BladeFusion SPE(TM) on the IBM BladeCenter platform. "Security teams are crying out for integrated security systems that are simple to manage, scale well, and better protect the enterprise," said Ted Joseph, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , OpenService. "STM and BladeFusion together enable Security in a Box (SiB) customers to meet this need. It's a perfect fit for our users: OpenService and BladeFusion lead our industries in terms of performance, manageability and minimal total cost of ownership (TCO (1) (Total Cost of Ownership) The cost of using a computer. It includes the cost of the hardware, software and upgrades as well as the cost of the inhouse staff and/or consultants that provide training and technical support. See ROI. )." The BladeFusion SPE(TM) infrastructure allows customers to consolidate their complex multi-functional and multi-element security gateways onto a single, fully redundant, easily maintained and centrally managed security solution, known as "Security in a Box" (SiB), based on IBM's industry leading BladeCenter hardware. With this certification, STM becomes the first and only commercial security information management (SIM) and log analysis application to be approved for SiB. "OpenService's Security Threat Manager, integrated with BladeFusions' SPE architecture, offers users the most complete security infrastructure solution out of the box," said Amir Barnea, founder and vice president of products, BladeFusion Technologies Ltd. "With only a few minutes of set up time, our customers can create a comprehensive, high availability security appliance, complete with an enterprise security management console powered by OpenService. STM's security dashboard provides powerful event correlation, risk-based threat analysis, and centralized reporting for log data from the other security applications deployed on the BladeCenter." Security Threat Manager (STM) is a security information management (SIM) software solution that collects, analyzes, and correlates security event data from across the enterprise. Its security event management system correlates events from firewalls, IDS, anti-virus and network devices with enterprise vulnerability metrics, asset values and business services. STM automatically consolidates, manages and escalates threats in real-time, easily scaling up to worldwide log event correlation implementations. It delivers centralized management of risks, vulnerabilities, real-time events and post-attack forensics. It enables simplified, consolidated security reporting and analysis for Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act of 1996, Public Law 104-191) Also known as the "Kennedy-Kassebaum Act," this U.S. law protects employees' health insurance coverage when they change or lose their jobs (Title I) and provides standards for patient health, , Basel II, FISMA FISMA Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 FISMA Federal Information System Management Act , FFIEC FFIEC Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council and Visa CISP CISP Cardholder Information Security Program (Visa) CISP Comitato Internazionale per lo Sviluppo dei Popoli CISP Certified IRA Services Professional (American Bankers Association) compliance audits. About BladeFusion Technologies (2003) Ltd. Based in Reston, VA, with an Advanced R&D Center in Tel Aviv, BladeFusion Technologies is the leading vendor of production environment infrastructure software that provides mission critical applications with N+1 high-availability, zero downtime upgradeability and hot-swap maintenance. BladeFusion's SPE(TM) technology and its software developer partners' ever-expanding line of best-of-breed Production Ready Applications (PRA) provide businesses of any size with the advantages of fully resilient and easy to upgrade and maintain production environments. Customers running BladeFusion SPE(TM) with ISV (Independent Software Vendor) A person or company that develops software. It implies an organization that specializes in software only and is not part of a computer systems or hardware manufacturer. and BladeFusion certified PRA or their own self installed PRAs enjoy fully automatic S4 benefits: Survivability, Security, Scalability and Serviceability. For more information about BladeFusion and the BladeFusion SPE(TM), please visit our web site at http://www.bladefusion.com . 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 Connexion by Boeing (CBB) was an in-flight online connectivity service from Boeing. This service allowed travellers to access a high-speed internet connection while on board a plane in flight through a wired Ethernet or a wireless 802.11 Wi-Fi connection. , Sonnenschein Nath and Rosenthal, Verizon, Visa, and many others in the Fortune 500. For more information, call 508-599-2000 or visit http://www.openservice.com. |
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