SenSage Positioned in Visionaries Quadrant Within Security Information Event Management Market

Annual Magic Quadrant Report Based on Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute

SAN FRANCISO, CA – May 22, 2006 – SenSage, the leading provider of enterprise security analytics, today announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Visionaries Quadrant in Gartner’s annual Magic Quadrant report for the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) market. SenSage was placed in the “visionaries” quadrant based on evaluating the company’s completeness of vision and ability to execute.

The Magic Quadrant Research, published May 12, 2006, is a qualitative evaluation of a set of vendors in this information security solution segment. The report states that the SIEM market remains fragmented, with no dominant vendor.

SenSage is suited for customers seeking optimized, high-performance event collection, archive, monitoring, analytics, and reporting for large, diverse amounts of event log data over long periods of time for audit, compliance and internal investigation purposes.

The report further conveys that the SIEM market is driven by customer needs to analyze security event data in real-time (for threat management, primarily in network events) and to analyze and report on log data (for security policy compliance monitoring, primarily in host and application events). SIM requirements (to support regulatory compliance initiates) have replaced SEM as the primary driver for SIEM project funding.

“We believe SenSage’s unique value proposition aligns well to the SIEM market trend conclusions drawn by the Gartner analysts,” said Scott Gordon, vice president of worldwide marketing at SenSage. “With SenSage, organizations can consistently obtain desired operational and compliance reports, as well as execute in-depth analyses and expansive audits with more immediate results, greater productivity and lower costs.”

Sophisticated threats, privileged user violations, and global compliance mandates have accelerated event log analytics and data management issues. This data, generated by network applications, systems and devices, can represent millions of system and application activities each day and can easily consume gigabytes of daily storage. The sheer volume of the data, combined with evolving analysis requirements and regulatory retention periods, can exacerbate the expenditures, capacity and processing inadequacies of homegrown and traditional security information management (SIM) systems - especially those employing conventional RDBMS-based technologies or distributed appliance data stores.

From its inception, SenSage designed the industry’s first and only scalable event log management and security analytics solution to cost-effectively extract user-defined value from enormous amounts of diverse event log data. SenSage award-winning security analytics solutions combine a purpose-built, non-RDBMS analytics engine with real-time event correlation that provide an unmatched combination of broad event-data collection, compression, retention, alerting and high-speed query/reporting. Now organizations can avoid making functional and compliance compromises about which systems to monitor, which data to collect, how much data to be processed, and how long to retain event data online. With a single click, SenSage customers can examine real-time incidents within a broad and deep historical context – streamlining monitoring, investigation and remediation processes.

About the Magic Quadrant

The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted May 12, 2006 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

Magic Quadrant for Security Information and Event Management, 1H06, Mark Nicolett, Amrit T. Williams, Paul E. Proctor, 12 May 2006.

About SenSage

SenSage, the leading provider of enterprise security analytics, offers unparalleled performance and a scalable means for organizations to centrally aggregate, efficiently analyze, dynamically monitor and cost-effectively store massive volumes of event log data. Our solutions empower companies to readily respond to business critical threats, conduct thorough and precise investigations, and maintain compliant operations. Based in San Francisco, CA, SenSage currently protects Global 2000 customers in financial services, government, healthcare, manufacturing, and technology. The company markets its product directly and through partners including Cerner, EMC, Hewlett-Packard, and Lockheed Martin.

For more information, please visit www.sensage.com.

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