M & K Internetworking Security Services Partners with High Tower Software
Deal pairs leading network security services provider with award-winning security software developer
ALISO VIEJO, Calif. – Network security systems developer High Tower Software today announced that M & K Internetworking Security Services (M&K-INSS) has signed on as a High Tower partner. Under the agreement, M&K-INSS, a leading information technology consultancy, will offer High Tower’s advanced security platforms as part of its suite of network and security services.
High Tower is the maker of Cinxi, a family of high performance Security and Information Event Management (SIEM) systems used to perform real time detection and response to network attacks, policy violations and other potential security threats. The company’s products are used to protect critical data across a broad swath of organizations ranging from banking and financial institutions, to global enterprises and military installations.
“We’re very pleased to be partnering with a firm of M&K-INSS’ caliber,” said Thaddeus Buck, director of channel development at High Tower. “M&K-INSS has a top-notch team of security professionals and one of the most highly respected reputations in the industry,” he said. “High Tower’s next generation SIEM platform and M&K’s industry expertise will allow our partnership to deliver security solutions unparalleled in the marketplace.”
M&K-INSS provides a full range of network, information and security technology consulting services with a focus on information security problem identification, prevention, and resolution against emerging threats and cyber attacks. The company has more than half a century of experience and counts technology leaders such as Checkpoint, Cisco, Palo Alto, IBM ISS, and Fortinet among its partners.
“We are very pleased with High Tower products’ rapid deployment and immediate reporting. Our clients are getting instant results around compliance, security awareness, and policy enforcement,” said Ted Carlson, a partner with M&K-INSS.
The two companies will begin working together immediately to provide log management and consolidation services and solutions with a focus on Fortune 1000 clients in the New York Metropolitan area.
About M & K Internetworking Security Services LLC
M&K –INSS is ranked the 24th largest accounting and consulting firm in the country and #1 on Long Island. M&K specializes in data integrity providing solutions in the areas of perimeter security, intrusion management, adaptive security infrastructure, compliance and risk assessment, managed security services, vulnerability assessments, and secure network infrastructure assessments. M&K is headquartered in Melville, New York with offices in NYC, NJ, CT and Grand Cayman.
About High Tower Software, Inc.
High Tower is a global provider of information security products providing real-time visibility, alerts, and reports on network threats and organizational policy violations. Established in 1999 with technology originally developed at NASA, High Tower’s award-winning line of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) appliances streamline the process of analyzing and managing large volumes of network and security data. Based in Orange County, California, High Tower has 60 employees and regional offices in Atlanta, Boise, Chicago, Detroit, New York, Sacramento, and Washington, D.C., plus a worldwide network of resellers. For more information, visit www.high-tower.com or call 877-HI TOWER (877-448-6937).
Bank Shows Good Security Doesn’t Have to be Complicated
Washington’s Banner Bank uses High Tower’s Cinxi security platform to help ensure regulatory compliance and network security
Like a lot of IT Security specialists these days, Randy Lindberg has plenty of work to do and never enough time in which to do it. So when Lindberg wanted to upgrade the existing security management system to better monitor his organization’s network for regulatory compliance and security purposes, straightforward, simple implementation, hassle-free operation, and immediate results were paramount concerns.
His choice? A security information event management (SIEM) system called Cinxi from High Tower Software based in Orange County, California.
Lindberg is the IT Security Lead for Banner Bank, a fast-growing banking and financial services provider based in the Pacific Northwest. From company headquarters in Walla Walla, Washington, Lindberg’s staff is charged with ensuring network security for some 1,200 employees and tens of thousands of customers across the organization’s 86 branch offices and 12 loan offices in Washington, Oregon and Idaho.
As a publicly traded financial institution, Banner is subject to a host of federal, state and industry regulations regarding information security - a fact ever-present in Lindberg’s mind.
“The biggest drivers we had in implementing a SIEM were compliance and security analysis,” he said. “We have to meet FFIEC (Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council) guidelines, GLBA (Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act) requirements and PCI (Payment Card Industry) standards, to name a few.”
In order to help meet that alphabet soup of regulations Lindberg turned to High Tower’s Cinxi SIEM platform. Cinxi monitors messages from hundreds of network devices-firewalls, routers, servers, anti-virus systems, desktops, etc.-and analyzes the information for patterns that might indicate a policy violation or attempted security breach. When such patterns are detected, the system triggers an alert to Lindberg’s staff indicating the severity of the incident, the network assets involved and a course of action.
“Monitoring just one thing on the network, such as the firewall, isn’t enough,” Lindberg said. “It’s important to get a full view of everything that’s happening. Cinxi’s flexibility in terms of the variety of device logs it can capture and activities it can correlate means we see what’s going on across the entire network at any moment.”
Incorporating so many pieces from a network like Banner’s is no easy task-another aspect of Cinxi Lindberg appreciates, particularly in light of past experiences with other products.
“They required a significant amount of resources to operate. By comparison, High Tower’s Cinxi was very easy to implement and even easier to manage,” Lindberg said. “We’re very low on time. We were able to install Cinxi in a very short time and now it plows through gobs of our network data and brings the real threats to the forefront. It’s a huge time and energy saver for us.”
Now that Lindberg has covered Banner’s bases from a compliance and security event analysis standpoint, his team is exploring what more they can do with Cinxi.
“We’re looking at what additional devices on the network can report (to Cinxi),” he said. “We might also look into adapting it for non-security-based events such as fraud detection. I think that would be very valuable to us.”
About Banner Bank
Banner Corporation is the parent company of Banner Bank, a commercial bank that operates a total of 86 branch offices and 12 loan offices in 29 counties in Washington, Oregon and Idaho. It is also the parent of Islanders Bank which operates three branch offices in Washington’s San Juan Islands. Banner serves the Pacific Northwest region with a full range of deposit services and business, commercial real estate, construction, residential, agricultural and consumer loans. Visit Banner Bank on the Web at www.bannerbank.com.
About High Tower Software, Inc.
High Tower is a global provider of information security products providing real-time visibility, alerts, and reports on network threats and organizational policy violations. Established in 1999 with technology originally developed at NASA, High Tower’s award-winning line of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) appliances with proprietary analytics, MetaRules™, simplify the process of analyzing and managing large volumes of network and security data. Designed by industry recognized security experts, High Tower solutions deliver a unified security console, streamline security operations, improve attack identification, speed incident response, and help to implement the controls necessary to meet regulatory compliance requirements for information security. Based in Orange County, California, High Tower has 60 employees including regional offices in Atlanta, Boise, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, New York, Sacramento, and Washington, D.C., plus a worldwide network of resellers. For more information, visit www.high-tower.com or call 877-HI TOWER (877-448-6937).
Gartner IT Security Summit
Date: June 2 -4, 2008
Location: Washington, DC
Event Website: http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=594029&tab=overview_v2
From the event website:
The Next Ten Years in Information Security
Despite rapidly advancing threats and new technology solutions, it’s relatively easy planning for the next year or two. But peering out 5-10 years is far more challenging. The Gartner IT Security Summit will provide insight and a vision of how things will evolve over the long term and provide road maps on how enterprises and solutions providers will get there.
8th Annual New York Metro Information Security Forum
Date: May 20-21, 2008
Location: New York, New York
Event Website: http://www.ianetsec.com
From the event website:
Information Security Forums are the leading peer-based, CPE-accredited events. Intimate and conversational, IANS limits the Forum to 150 practicing Information Security professionals. Institute Forums are about tactics not theory, real-life experience not academic studies, they’re confidential, vendor neutral and press-free.
As a Forum Delegate, you will gain insights on the best practices and lessons learned directly from your peers; stay up to date with emerging technologies and early-stage deployments; and network with influential peers and Faculty.
High Tower Software Announces Cinxi Express
Award-winning software developer bolsters product line with entry-level security information event management appliance
San Francisco, RSA Conference 2008 - Security solutions developer High Tower Software today announced the release of a security appliance designed to help IT personnel in smaller organizations mitigate network security risks and better manage regulatory compliance. Called Cinxi Express, the new product is a Security Information Event Manager (SIEM) that collects log data from network devices, applications and users, analyzes the information to assess potential security and compliance threats, and alerts personnel when risks are detected.
Like High Tower’s enterprise-class Cinxi SIEM solutions, Cinxi Express delivers a full suite of log management, threat response, compliance monitoring, and data forensics capabilities organizations need to ensure that networks are secure and operating within corporate and regulatory guidelines.
“Smaller organizations face the same security and compliance hurdles that larger ones do,” said High Tower vice president of product management, A. Sage Osterfeld. “The biggest difference is that smaller operations don’t always have the personnel to dedicate to managing and maintaining these areas fulltime, so it’s often the same person handling these tasks simultaneously. Cinxi Express offers a single solution for both security and compliance.”
For security-related tasks, Cinxi Express delivers cross-device log monitoring and correlation, providing real time situational awareness of all security-related events on the network. Those events deemed sufficiently significant can be mitigated through an integrated case management and workflow system.
For compliance-oriented tasks, Cinxi Express’ secure raw log management and pre-packaged reports for SOX, PCI, HIPAA, GLBA, ISO 27001, FIPS, FISMA, FERPA and many more, greatly simplifies maintaining compliance standards and audit requirements. Cinxi Express users may also create custom reports for other compliance standards or internal business requirements.
Other major features of Cinxi Express include a high-performance hardware and software architecture, an integrated intuitive graphical control panel, and a setup and installation process that allows the product to go from the box to full operation in under an hour.
“Even though Cinxi Express is designed for smaller organizations, the feature set is by no means small. Cinxi Express is built on the same award-winning technology platform as our larger enterprise systems, and delivers the same ease-of-installation,” Osterfeld said. “Cinxi Express users receive the same user experience as larger Cinxi installations, and can easily migrate upward as their organizations grow.”
Cinxi Express carries a list price of $17,995 and is available directly from High Tower as well as through High Tower reseller and distribution channels.
Cinxi Express is being exhibited at the RSA Conference 2008 in San Francisco April 7-11 in the High Tower booth, #851. More information is also available by contacting High Tower Software at 877-HI TOWER (877-448-6937), or on the web at www.high-tower.com.
About High Tower
High Tower is a global provider of information security products providing real-time visibility, alerts, and reports on network threats and organizational policy violations. Established in 1999 with technology originally developed at NASA, High Tower’s award-winning line of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) appliances with proprietary analytics, MetaRules™, simplify the process of analyzing and managing large volumes of network and security data. Designed by industry recognized security experts, High Tower solutions deliver a unified security console, streamline security operations, improve attack identification, speed incident response, and help to implement the controls necessary to meet regulatory compliance requirements for information security. Based in Orange County, California, High Tower has 60 employees including regional offices in Atlanta, Boise, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, New York, Sacramento, and Washington, D.C., plus a worldwide network of resellers. For more information, visit www.high-tower.com or call 877-HI TOWER (877-448-6937).
Security Expert to Present the Death of the Internet
High Tower Software CTO/CISO Eugene Schultz to speak on the large-scale attack that will bring the Internet down
Aliso Viejo, Calif. — Noted security expert Eugene Schultz has bad news for the wired world. Internet attacks are more stealthy and sophisticated than ever, making it highly likely that one may soon bring the whole Internet to a functional standstill. Schultz, who is Chief Technical Officer at High Tower Software, has published several books on information security and frequently speaks on the subject at symposiums and conferences around the globe.
On Tuesday, April 8th Schultz will present July 18, 2008: The Day the Internet Died at the RSA Conference 2008 in San Francisco, one of the largest gatherings of security professionals in the world. In his presentation he will profile the very real and growing threat to the global information infrastructure and describe how the ultimate attack may finally be executed so that organizations can take steps now to prepare themselves.
Details of Schultz’ presentation are as follows:
| Session: | July 18, 2008: The Day The Internet Died |
| Session Code: | HT2-108 |
| Speaker: | Eugene Schultz, Chief Technology Officer & Chief Information Security Officer, High Tower Software |
| Date: | Tuesday April 8, 2008 |
| Time: | 5:40 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time |
| Location: | Green Room 104, Moscone Convention Center, 747 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA 94103 |
| High Tower Exhibit: | Booth #851 |
RSA Conference 2008 Information
RSA Conference 2008, taking place April 7-11 in San Francisco, CA, is the most comprehensive educational forum in information security. Featuring over 350 exhibitors and more than 220 educational sessions and live demos, RSA provides attendees with access to learn about the latest trends and technologies, best practices and perspectives on the most business critical issues facing information security professionals today. For more information on this event, please visit: http://www.rsaconference.com/2008/US/home.aspx.
For complete information or to attend the conference, visit http://www.rsaconference.com/2008/US/Registration.aspx.
About High Tower
High Tower is a global provider of information security products providing real-time visibility, alerts, and reports on network threats and organizational policy violations. Established in 1999 with technology originally developed at NASA, High Tower’s award-winning line of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) appliances with proprietary analytics, MetaRules™, simplify the process of analyzing and managing large volumes of network and security data. Designed by industry recognized security experts, High Tower solutions deliver a unified security console, streamline security operations, improve attack identification, speed incident response, and help to implement the controls necessary to meet regulatory compliance requirements for information security. Based in Orange County, California, High Tower has 60 employees including regional offices in Atlanta, Boise, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, New York, Sacramento, and Washington, D.C., plus a worldwide network of resellers. For more information, visit www.high-tower.com or call 877-HI TOWER (877-448-6937).
High Tower Software and Encryptanet Announce Technology Agreement
High Tower Software and Encryptanet Announce Technology Agreement
High Tower to incorporate Encryptanet’s authorization and access management technologies into Cinxi network security and compliance monitoring products
Aliso Viejo, Calif. - Security Software specialist High Tower Software today announced that it has entered a technology licensing agreement with Encrpytanet, Inc. of Anaheim, Calif. Under the agreement High Tower will incorporate Encryptanet’s authentication and access management technologies into High Tower’s line of network security and compliance monitoring systems.
“Monitoring and controlling user access to software and systems on a network is a major problem for IT and security personnel,” said High Tower vice president of product management, Sage Osterfeld. “Incorporating Encryptanet’s technologies into our products will give these folks a fast, easy and highly secure means to set and monitor access management policies from a centralized security management system.”
High Tower produces a line of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems dubbed “Cinxi” which automate the process of monitoring live data from network security devices, computers, and software applications. The systems centralize date collection, analyze, correlate, and store the information, providing organizations with better incident response and compliance with regulatory mandates.
Encryptanet is the developer of a software technology that controls and manages access to computers, software systems, digital content, servers, and other network devices via digital certificates. The technology is very simple to deploy and can’t be bypassed or “cracked” the way other access control and authentication systems such as passwords can. Encrypatnet’s software is licensed by a broad variety of businesses including payment processors, content publishers, software developers, and others.
“This is a very exciting technology partnership,” said Encryptanet founder and chief technology officer Clay Cover. “Incorporating the Encryptanet authentication and access technologies into Cinxi SIEM solutions will greatly enhance those system’s security monitoring and management capabilities. Network managers will have a powerful new tool for controlling and monitoring who has access to network systems and resources whether users are just down the hall or halfway around the world.”
The Encryptanet access management and authentication technologies are slated to appear in Cinxi products late in the second quarter of 2008.
About
High Tower is a global provider of information security products providing real-time visibility, alerts, and reports on network threats and organizational policy violations. Established in 1999 with technology originally developed at NASA, High Tower’s award-winning line of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) appliances with proprietary analytics, MetaRules™, simplify the process of analyzing and managing large volumes of network and security data. Designed by industry recognized security experts, High Tower solutions deliver a unified security console, streamline security operations, improve attack identification, speed incident response, and help to implement the controls necessary to meet regulatory compliance requirements for information security. Based in Orange County, California, High Tower has 60 employees including regional offices in Atlanta, Boise, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, New York, Sacramento, and Washington, D.C., plus a worldwide network of resellers. For more information, visit www.high-tower.com or call 877-HI TOWER (877-448-6937).
Interop Las Vegas 2008
Date: April 27 - May 2, 2008
Location: Las Vegas, NV, Booth #213
Event Website: interop.com
From the event website:
Interop is the leading global technology event, bringing together IT and business leaders to see all of the latest technologies in action.
High Tower Software and eCompliantz, LLC Announce Technology Agreement
Security software developer to incorporate live updates from compliance standards monitoring firm
Aliso Viejo, Calif. — Network security systems developer High Tower Software, today announced that it has entered into a technology agreement with eCompliantz, LLC, an Atlanta, Georgia-based provider of government and industry regulatory compliance monitoring software.
Under the terms of the agreement, eCompliantz will provide ongoing updates for a multitude of national and international data security regulations included as part of High Tower’s Cinxi Security Information Event Management (SIEM) products.
High Tower’s Cinxi systems automate the process of monitoring live data from network security devices, computers and software applications. The systems centralize date collection, analyze, correlate and store the information, providing organizations with better incident response and compliance with regulatory mandates.
“There are over 20,000 compliance regulations affecting organizations worldwide,” said Sage Osterfeld, High Tower’s vice president of product management. Partnering with an expert in the field like eCompliantz ensures that our product is always providing the latest, most up-to-date information to our customers.”
High Tower customers include Global 2000 companies, national and international government agencies and leading universities that must comply with an alphabet soup of mandates that cover everything from who may access certain computers to how personal data and financial information is stored on networks. The company’s Cinxi products provide continuous monitoring of security-related data and allow organizations to use that information as a basis for hundreds of reports relating to specific compliance regulations such as Payment Card Industry, Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPPA, International Standards Organization, and many others.
“We’re pleased to be partnering with High Tower in this effort,” said eCompliantz director of marketing Michael Wingate. The combination of our deep expertise and High Tower’s Cinxi SIEM systems will go a long way toward eliminating the burden of keeping up with shifting standards and ensuring regulatory compliance for thousands worldwide.”
eCompliantz monitors and provide clients with updates on thousands of compliance regulations affecting entities in North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. eCompliantz’ updates will be incorporated into Cinxi’s Reporting feature and automatically pushed as available to Cinxi customers via High Tower’s electronic update service.
eCompliantz updates are slated to begin delivery to High Tower customers in April 2008.
About
High Tower is a global provider of information security products providing real-time visibility, alerts, and reports on network threats and organizational policy violations. Established in 1999 with technology originally developed at NASA, High Tower’s award-winning line of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) appliances with proprietary analytics, MetaRules™, simplify the process of analyzing and managing large volumes of network and security data. Designed by industry recognized security experts, High Tower solutions deliver a unified security console, streamline security operations, improve attack identification, speed incident response, and help to implement the controls necessary to meet regulatory compliance requirements for information security. Based in Orange County, California, High Tower has 60 employees including regional offices in Atlanta, Boise, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, New York, Sacramento, and Washington, D.C., plus a worldwide network of resellers. For more information, visit www.high-tower.com or call 877-HI TOWER (877-448-6937).
High Tower Named Finalist in Technology Industry Awards
High Tower Software has been named a finalist in the Technology Council of Southern California’s 2008 Technology Industry Awards. The awards honor individuals and companies that play a significant role in advancing Southern California as a center for technological innovation.
High Tower has been nominated in the Network & Security Company of the Year category.
» Read the press announcement (via Technology Council of Southern California)
» Visit the Technology Council of Southern California awards website
