CrossTec Corp.CrossTec Corp. has released the latest version of its Security Center information management software. Activeworx Security Center version 3.0 offers information technology security managers a variety of new features, including a quicker and more reliable way to verify (1) To prove the correctness of data. (2) In data entry operations, to compare the keystrokes of a second operator with the data entered by the first operator to ensure that the data were typed in accurately. See validate. if a security event is a genuine system threat. The Boca Raton Boca Raton (bō`kə rətōn`), city (1990 pop. 61,492), Palm Beach co., SE Fla., on the Atlantic; inc. 1925. Boca Raton is a popular resort and retirement community that experienced significant industrial development in the 1970s and 80s. , Fla.-based company says the new correlation engine in Activeworx 3.0 adds intelligent automation to the Activeworx Event Framework by using simple flow chart symbols to create complex rules that have the ability to correlate against existing data and additional events. When a suspect event is detected in one device's log file, the software takes action based on those rules to check other security information in the system, making sure that the event is a real threat. It also has the ability to group events with commonalities, such as those involved in "brute force (programming) brute force - A primitive programming style in which the programmer relies on the computer's processing power instead of using his own intelligence to simplify the problem, often ignoring problems of scale and applying naive methods suited to small problems directly " attacks--a method of defeating a cryptographic cryp·tog·ra·phy n. 1. The process or skill of communicating in or deciphering secret writings or ciphers. 2. Secret writing. cryp scheme by trying a large number of possibilities--into a single event with more in-depth information. "This added intelligence saves information security personnel time, making it easier to determine if they need to take immediate action," says Jeff Richards Jeff Richards can refer to different people:
The graphical flow chart format and new desktop setting make version 3.0 intuitive and easy to use. Version 3.0 also offers additional device support for multiple new security applications and devices. The price for Activeworx Security Center software starts at $2,500. Add-on modules collect, normalize normalize to convert a set of data by, for example, converting them to logarithms or reciprocals so that their previous non-normal distribution is converted to a normal one. , correlate and analyze data from virtually any security device, the company says. The Activeworx Event Framework recognizes event data from a wide variety of vendor devices. Activeworx supplies detailed security alerts, necessary reports for investigations and regulatory compliance and forensics See computer forensics. tools. Web: www.crossteccorp.com Material for this column has been developed in most cases from promotional material supplied by the companies, which have not paid to appear. |
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