Agreement With ArcSight Establishes VeriSign Log Management Service as First to Support Multiple Technologies
VeriSign (NASDAQ: VRSN) EnterpriseSecurity Services today announced major enhancements to the VeriSign® LogManagement Service. The enhancements include expanded reportingcapabilities, deeper correlation across log sources, and an agreement withArcSight to integrate support for the company's Logger technology into theVeriSign service. The addition of the ArcSight solution makes VeriSign LogManagement Service the first of its kind to support multiple technologiesfrom best-of-breed providers through a fully managed solution.
To protect critical information and to comply with government and industryregulations, organizations must monitor a myriad of commercial and customapplications on a variety of different platforms. Doing so is a complex,labor-intensive undertaking. The VeriSign Log Management Service allowscustomers to collect, analyze and store system and application logs toprovide a deeper level of security monitoring as well as meet a broad arrayof compliance requirements, such as the Payment Card Industry (PCI) DataSecurity Standards, Sarbanes-Oxley, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, the HealthInsurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and the FederalInformation Security Management Act (FISMA).
"Our Log Management Service has received tremendous market response sinceits launch 2 years ago," said Scott Magrath, vice president and generalmanager for VeriSign® Managed Security Services. "As one of the firstmanaged security service providers with a comprehensive log managementoffering, we've learned a lot about the challenges and complexity ofdeploying these technologies for large global organizations. Thatexperience is reflected in the enhancements we're announcing today thatwill result in a more mature and flexible solution."
VeriSign Enterprise Security Services continues to invest in improving logmanagement service delivery, including the establishment of a specializedprofessional services team for log management deployments. Theseteams help clients work through implementation challenges at the system andapplication-level as well as developing support for non-standard logsources. Investments have also been made to enhance reporting through webservices APIs and enhanced correlation across the vast network, host, andapplication log sources being monitored by VeriSign. The correlationcapabilities allow for broader visibility while the APIs allow for deeperdrill-down into suspicious events that have occurred.
Through its business relationship with ArcSight, VeriSign has expanded itssupport for log management technology through its market leading ManagedSecurity Services offering.
