Q1 Labs Announces New Network Security Management Capabilities for VoIP Networks.

Unique Combination of Network Behavior Analysis and Security Event Correlation Delivers Protection across Network Protocols, Applications and Security Service Layers

WALTHAM, Mass. -- Q1 Labs, a leading network security management company, today announced that it is delivering a new QRadar module specifically designed to offer security monitoring for Voice over IP (VoIP) networks. Q1 Labs' QRadar is the only product that combines network behavior analysis and security event correlation for monitoring across the network protocol, application, and security services layers of a VoIP network.

Companies that have deployed VoIP are challenged in being able to effectively monitor their voice application traffic as well as the security devices that protect them. Without effective monitoring, VoIP traffic is subject to issues such as bandwidth contention and traffic jitter and opens itself up to security threats that include toll fraud (false long-distance call charges), man-in-the-middle attacks (hijacking of TCP packets) and IP PBX attacks (particularly Denial of Service).

QRadar's VoIP module provides customers with a set of security event correlation rules, application signatures, and specific VoIP security reports. These are designed to help customers better monitor their voice application traffic, correlate events from security devices protecting the network, while detecting and reporting on specific threats to VoIP servers and applications.

"We were already using QRadar to monitor and manage the security of our network and applications, which includes Voice over IP," said Alphonse Edouard, Vice President of Information Technology at Dune Capital Management. "These additional capabilities will further improve our visibility into our VoIP traffic and the overall preparedness of our network and servers to deal with VoIP-specific threats."

"Voice is an increasingly critical component of customer networks. In order to correctly monitor and secure VoIP applications, customers need be able to unify their view of the network, the applications on that network, and the security products that defend those applications," said Tom Turner, Vice President of Marketing for Q1 Labs. "QRadar is the only product in the market that can provide that converged view. These new VoIP features further improve the security management and monitoring capabilities for all of our customers and prospects."

The QRadar VoIP module includes:

VoIP Correlation Rules: Rules that correlate events taken from multiple VoIP source devices including Call Managers, IP PBXs, and voice gateways. QRadar's correlation rules detect toll fraud attempts as well as denial of service conditions against PBXs and other voice control servers.

Daily, Weekly and Monthly VoIP-Event Summary Reports: Reports detailing the number of VoIP associated security and policy events that are being created on a network, an indicator of the overall health of a VoIP network.

Executive VoIP Reports: A high-level look at the activity on a VoIP network. VoIP Security event data, as well as network behavior data from the VoIP specified network are combined to give an overall view of voice network performance.

Pricing and Availability

These QRadar VoIP security features will be available free of charge to all Q1 Labs customers through QRadar 5.2 Auto Update 3 which will ship on February 2, 2007.

About QRadar

QRadar goes beyond traditional security information/event management (SIEM) products or network behavior analysis (NBA) products to create a command-and-control center that can monitor, analyze and remediate threats. QRadar combines, analyzes and manages an unequalled set of surveillance data--network behavior, security events, vulnerability profiles and threat information--to empower enterprises to manage business operations on their networks efficiently from a single console. More information about QRadar is available at: http://www.q1labs.com/products/.

About Q1 Labs

Commanding a unique position at the nexus of security and networking, Q1 Labs is redefining network security management. Q1 Labs' flagship product, QRadar, integrates previously disparate network and security functions into one solution. This convergence ties the impact of security threats directly to specific business assets and services, reduces acquisition and operation costs and increases accuracy. Q1 Labs' installed customer base ranges from government agencies and financial institutions to universities and healthcare providers. Please visit http://www.q1labs.com/company/ or call [phone] for more information.