HP Enterprise Security Solutions has released a number of security-related products and services aimed at the enterprise market. These security-related products and services are designed to counteract the escalating number of IT, cyber, Web, internal and external security threats experienced by large organisations on a daily basis.
The median cost of cybercrime now stands at $5,9 million per year. That is a 56% increase from last year’s median cost. This is according to Ponemon Institute’s second Annual Cost of Cyber Crime Study released in August. According to the study, in the main, the high cybercrime costs were a result of malicious code, denial of service, stolen devices and Web-based attacks. The study also reports that security is the top business priority for 2012 and beyond.
HP companies, ArcSight, Fortify and TippingPoint have now joined forces to create a comprehensive enterprise security package: HP ArcSight Express 3.0, HP Reputation Security Monitor, HP Fortify Software Security Centre and HP TippingPoint Web Application Digital Vaccine.
“Organisations today are quickly realising the importance of a comprehensive strategy to securing assets across their corporate infrastructures and protecting them,” said Frank van Rees, MD and enterprise business lead, HP South Africa. “HP’s security services and technology portfolio provides the protection that enterprises require, while providing customer, partners and consumers with instant access to the right enterprise assets with ease.”
HP ArcSight Express 3.0 delivers correlation, log management and user-activity monitoring to improve an organisation’s ability to rapidly detect and prevent cyber threats. It is the first security information and event management (SIEM) product powered by the correlation optimised retention and retrieval engine (CORR-Engine).
The HP Reputation Security Monitor provides HP ArcSight clients with an advanced, real-time list of known bad IP and DNS addresses to combat attacks that exploit Web application vulnerabilities.
HP Fortify Software Security Centre suite is the only application security testing solution available on-premises or on-demand that scales to identify vulnerabilities in thousands of applications.
The HP TippingPoint Web Application Digital Vaccine (WebAppDV) 2.0 service extends protection to commercial and custom-built online applications with real-time identification of vulnerabilities in WebAppDV filters with the adaptive Web Application Firewall (WAF) Technology to help discriminate between normal network activity and malicious traffic. It also offers advanced protection and simplified migration from open source-based IPS solutions with the Digital Vaccine Toolkit (DVToolkit) 2.0 for Snort.
“Enterprises face continued risk from cyber attacks, particularly on Web-based applications, threatening both data integrity and service availability,” said Graham Vorster, HP Networking country manager. “As a key component of the HP Security Intelligence and Risk Management framework, the new HP TippingPoint solutions enhance protection across the network and data centre, simplifying security administration while ensuring business continuity.”
In helping organisations to manage their security transformation, HP has also launched new enterprise services. The HP Information Security Management (ISM) services deliver a comprehensive approach to managing security policies and processes, enabling clients to make informed security decisions and minimise risks.
HP Enterprise Cloud Service (ECS), end-point cloud management protects desktop and notebook PCs and serves against viruses, malware and spyware, and intrusions by blocking unauthorised communication and preventing installation of unwanted programs. HP (SIEM) services, that collect and log security-relevant events to provide a unified view of the security activity across an enterprise as well as generating predefined reports to demonstrate compliance with policies and regulations. And the HP Application Security Testing-as-a-Service, that identifies and closes security vulnerabilities in the application layer with code scanning and Web penetration services that reduce the risk, time and investment needed to deliver software security assurance.
For more info on HP’s new security products visit: www.hp.com/go/risk2011
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