What's Happening in Information Security

After reading all the predictions about how clever the cybercriminals will be in 2010, I thought it might provide some balance to ask our Solution Architects for some advice on how companies are protecting themselves against cybercrime.

Intellitactics Solution Architects are out there every day working along side some of the best security professionals working at the most sophisticated agencies and companies around the world. Providing professional services to our SIEM solution customers and enterprise security management systems customers these members of our professional services team work with many companies employing cutting edge practices to protect information assets and comply with regulatory standards like PCI-DSS, HIPAA, SOX and FISMA.

Artyom Adjemov offers this suggestion:
Provide better monitoring of outgoin/incoming web and email traffic. One large cable provider is using several products for this and using Intellitactics Security Manager (ISM) to centralize and consolidate to find breaches of security. Some tools to consider: Breach Webdefend to monitor various potentially malicious web-related activity and Vericept Monitor to monitor outgoing email traffic for inclusion of credit card informaiton and/or social security information. SC Magazine recently gave WebDefend 5 stars - saying its an "excellent solution for PCI compliance". 

THANKS ART!

ISM consolidates all security events and prioritizes them by risk score as Alerts. ISM takes plain English events or numeric event IDs and translates them into English using device specific taxonomies. This improves security operations ability to analyze and respond to anomalies or violations.

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