OpenService, Inc and Mazu Networks Team to Provide Unified Threat Management Solution for IBM Development Labs.

Blade.org Member Companies Collaborate on Unified Threat Management (UTM) Solution Based on IBM BladeCenter for Performance, Scalability and Availability

SAN FRANCISCO -- OpenService, Inc., a leader in Enterprise Event Management (EEM) solutions, and Mazu Networks the leading1 provider of Network Behavior Analysis (NBA) systems, announced today, that they have collaborated to pilot a multi-vendor UTM system for security threat and compliance management in one of IBM's largest product development labs. Both companies are members of Blade.org, a collaborative organization and developer community focused on accelerating the expansion of blade solutions and the IBM and Intel blade ecosystem.

"IBM was looking for a solution to manage security compliance across a network of development labs involving 10's of thousands of servers in multiple locations," said Ted Joseph, CEO, OpenService. "The solution had to meet IBM's internal security standards, while reducing the labor required to maintain compliance. Several companies were pulled together to provide a UTM solution pilot. OpenService Security Management Center (SMC) was used to provide the overall threat management and compliance reporting, a central component of the solution."

IBM needed to detect new hosts coming on the network and quickly perform a vulnerability scan to identify any potential threats. Through Mazu, IBM gains continuous global visibility into how users, applications, hosts and devices are behaving on their network, and the information on how current activity differs from typical behavior. By continually updating a moving profile of typical network behavior to reflect changing business conditions, Mazu allows IBM to analyze network behavior from many dimensions. This unique combination of behavioral profiling with real-time monitoring and historical logging provides IBM with the data to diagnose urgent incidents, resolve repeating problems, identify trends for effective planning and conduct forensic analysis. Mazu's two-way integration with the market's leading vulnerability management solutions enables the timely and accurate delivery of alerts to the OpenService Security Management Center.

OpenService provides real-time, risk-based event correlation and reporting for the UTM solution. The alert sent by Mazu is processed by the OpenService correlation engine and a vulnerability scan is initiated on the new host by issuing a command to the vulnerability management system. The result of the scan is used in conjunction with the OpenService Vulnerability-Signature Metabase to assess any risk caused by the new host. The power of the OpenService correlation engine coupled with behavioral profiling by Mazu and vulnerability assessment data from a leading vulnerability management system is just one example of the value provided by the multi-vendor UTM solution at IBM.

"Mazu's extensive integrations with best-of-breed technologies allow enterprises such as IBM to add our NBA solution into their existing operational models and management systems," said Paul Brady, CEO, Mazu Networks. "Through our partnership with OpenService as well as with the market's leading vulnerability management providers, we provide IBM with deeper context for alerting on or mitigating network and security issues before they disrupt business operations."

"We wanted to improve the way we managed the security of the systems in our development labs," said Daniel Frye, Vice President, Open Systems Development, IBM. "Our current approach required a high degree of manual intervention by our lab staff. As we looked for a solution we found all of the components we needed in our business partners and members of Blade.org. OpenService, Mazu Networks and three other technology partners pulled together a pilot system which we tested in one of our labs. We have been very impressed with the solution and the significant cost savings and increased security we have seen in the pilot deployment."

About OpenService, Inc.

OpenService improves the reliability and security of the world's largest enterprise networks. The company specializes in management software that scales to high volume, global implementations in use by hundreds of the world's best-known enterprises today. OpenService has over a decade of experience in managing the most demanding network and security environments. For more information, call 508-597-5330 or visit http://www.openservice.com.

About Mazu Networks, Inc.

Mazu Networks provides continuous global visibility into how users, applications, hosts and devices are behaving on a network, and detects if there are meaningful changes from their typical behavior that indicate a network performance issue, a security threat, or an application problem. Through Mazu, enterprises understand usage patterns, consumption rates and dependencies between users, applications and network infrastructure. Only Mazu offers continuous global visibility; rapid, agent-less deployment, automatic and custom behavior analysis; and superior integration with network and security products. Mazu's customers optimize their network infrastructure to support their business, secure their internal networks and maximize application availability. For more information, please visit www.mazunetworks.com.

About Blade.org

Blade.org is a collaborative organization and developer community focused on accelerating the expansion of blade solutions and the IBM and Intel blade ecosystem. The organization is intended to create new solutions, maximizing the value of the blade platform. More information is available at www.blade.org.

1 See: http://www.mazunetworks.com/news-events/061201-yankee.php.