Sidebar: Security Event Management Tools

Computerworld - Here's a sampling of security event management products that are currently available:

• Arcsight Inc.
  
  TruThreat Risk Correlation Engine: Combines threat-severity information with asset data to determine and prioritize risk. Allows administrators to set and monitor policies according to asset priorities.
  
  


• Computer Associates International Inc.
  
  eTrust security management software: Product suite comprising of identity management, access management and threat management components. An eTrust security center provides centralized management of these functions.
  
  


• e-Security Inc.
  
  eSecurity Security Event Manager: Consists of three modules -- Sentinel, Wizard and Advisor -- for gathering and analyzing and centralized reporting of security event data.
  
  


• IBM
  
  Tivoli Security Event Manager: Allows users to automate responses to security events in addition to helping monitor and track security events.
  
  


• Intellitactics Inc.
  
  Network Security Manager: Does security event correlation from multivendor security devices and nonsecurity information sources and provides a graphical visualization of threats, anomalies and trends.
  
  


• netForensics Inc.
  
  Security Incident Manager: Uses a three-tier architecture. Agents gather data from security systems, Engines aggregate and correlate the data, and the Real-Time Console presents the data.
  
  


• NetIQ Inc.
  
  VigilEnt Integrated Security Management: A product suite for policy and compliance management, administration and identity management, vulnerability and configuration management, and incident and event management.
  
  


• Symantec Corp.
  
  Symantec Security Management System: Combines a security incident manager component for consolidating and correlating security information from disparate systems, an event-manager for antivirus software and a security manager policy-compliance tool.