Symbiot Security Releases S.A.R.A.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers AUSTIN Austin. 1 City (1990 pop. 21,907), seat of Mower co., SE Minn., on the Cedar River, near the Iowa line; inc. 1868. The commercial and industrial center of a rich farm region, it is noted as home to the Hormel meatpacking company, whose Spam Town museum , Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 18, 2003 Symbiot Inc. today announced the general availability of S.A.R.A. (Symbiot Artificial intelligence for the Remediation of Attack planning), a patent pending, military-class artificial intelligence for network security. With the equivalent of over 10 lifetimes of experience in network security, S.A.R.A. discovers potential compromises that would otherwise go undetected because they involve attack plans with a large number of steps. Such attacks often exploit several "minor" vulnerabilities spanning multiple machines and networks. "The most critical vulnerabilities are not always the ones which in isolation appear to be the most serious," said Mike W. Erwin, president of Symbiot Inc. "S.A.R.A. reveals even the most sophisticated attack plans, which are typically executed as a series of steps designed to compromise network defenses, and S.A.R.A. provides step-by-step resolution procedures." Unique in the security marketplace, Symbiot provides customers with critical intelligence about their security posture posture /pos·ture/ (pos´choor) the attitude of the body.pos´tural pos·ture n. 1. A position of the body or of body parts. 2. . S.A.R.A. represents the company's foundation in security technology because of its ability to infer relationships between attackers, attacks, methods and intent. By applying machine reasoning to the field of network security, Symbiot quantifies the significance and impact of potential attacks. "Because of the competitive advantages S.A.R.A. represents, OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and licensing opportunities will be limited to a small number of platinum partners during 2004," said Erwin. S.A.R.A. is currently available under Symbiot's OEM licensing program, and as a hosted solution for security consulting companies Noun 1. consulting company - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee consulting firm business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a and managed security service providers. About Symbiot Symbiot(R) is the leader in the Intelligent Security Infrastructure Management Systems (iSIMS iSIMS Intelligent Security Infrastructure Management Systems (Symbiot, Inc.) ) marketplace. Symbiot's solutions provide real-time 1. real-time - Describes an application which requires a program to respond to stimuli within some small upper limit of response time (typically milli- or microseconds). Process control at a chemical plant is the classic example. , intelligent, predictive tools for managing and analyzing streams of security event data. Symbiot's AI products rely on well-established, world-class inference (logic) inference - The logical process by which new facts are derived from known facts by the application of inference rules. See also symbolic inference, type inference. and knowledge management engines. Symbiot's advanced developments represent some novel departures from the market norm. The company's approach to information security operates from the network fabric up, and is based on proprietary R&D that supports the Federal Government and other commercial strategic alliances. |
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