Organizations Face Unprecedented Risk

The digital infrastructure used today by businesses and governments is more sophisticated and critical than ever before. It is also under unprecedented attack. There has been a dramatic increase in cybercrime and cyberwarfare, and stories detailing data disasters are making headlines daily. These attacks are costing organizations billions of dollars a year through interrupted operations, data loss, lawsuits, and damage to customer confidence.

In addition, organizations face the challenge of responding to increased compliance regulations and audits. Regulatory agencies and business imperatives now require that organizations capture and retain years worth of data, not just for regulatory compliance but also for fraud detection, forensics and investigations, law enforcement and security agency requests, and operations troubleshooting.

Compounding the problem is the fact that the volume of data managed by organizations is expanding rapidly. Organizations have lacked the necessary framework to connect the knowledge from this huge volume of data with the rest of their operations. Preventing and minimizing cyber-attacks requires the precise analysis of multiple, complex data sources in real time and over long time frames. Much, if not most, of this data is event data, produced from virtually every form of information technology.

Traditional Solutions Have Proven Inadequate

The traditional data warehouses, log management systems, and security information and event management (SIEM) systems currently being used to manage event data are point products that have proven inadequate to the task. Professionals and public servants in the field of digital security are doing their best to safeguard digital assets and institutional reputations, but they need better tools, and they need them now. They also need these tools to be thoroughly interoperable and capable of showing what is happening in an organization’s entire environment, not just on a few devices. New solutions are needed to provide the comprehensive data management and analysis tools required to meet the threats and challenges of today’s cyber-environment.

The Answer: Security Intelligence Solutions

These challenging requirements demand a new approach that harnesses the power of data warehouse technology and business intelligence-style analytics and query flexibility, yet at the same time leverages a deep understanding of security context obtained from interpreting myriad log data formats. Stated in technology terms, this approach must integrate the state-of-the-art in business intelligence, data warehouse, SIEM and log management.

SenSage® is at the forefront of this new technology, offering the world’s only Security Intelligence solutions that provide essential decision support for security, risk management and compliance operations. These solutions address the following critical requirements:

• Security & Log Management
  Enterprise security has evolved from merely “keeping the bad guys out” to securing critical data and “keeping it inside.” Insiders are clearly the new risk, and event data from internal systems exist that can catch the vast majority of security breaches prior to expensive and damaging results. SenSage Security & Log Management solution minimizes the time, expense and the risk for safeguarding a broad set of corporate assets.
• Compliance Auditing
  Compliance can be expensive. Companies spend billions of dollars annually to comply with evolving federal and industry regulations, and organizations face significant ongoing systems, storage, human resources and audit expenditures.
  
  SenSage Compliance Auditing solutions map event data to audit requirements – HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, PCI DSS, NISPOM, FISMA, DCID, NERC, ISO 27002 – and minimize the time, expense and risk for managing regulatory compliance.
• IT Operations & Risk Management
  IT organizations need to maintain system availability and reduce risk of unauthorized access and fraudulent activity .These tasks require the ability to quickly detect, investigate and respond to IT infrastructure, database and applications events throughout the network. SenSage IT Operations and Risk Management solutions provide visibility to event and log data from systems and minimize time and expense.
• Business Data Intelligence
  Organizations are struggling to leverage full sets of enterprise data. Intelligence based on business event data is a competitive advantage, and only SenSage provides collection, warehousing and analytics tools to harness this advantage. SenSage Business Data Intelligence solutions correlate business event data with existing systems of record from business applications including; Financial, ERP and CRM systems, to enable better business decisions.