With the near daily arrival of new worms, viruses, and threats, keeping up with the Joneses is the modes operandi for companies
in the security market. Start-ups TriGeo and Platform Logic are not immune, and this week each will introduce new enhancements
to their respective software products.
Focusing on correlating security events into a single view, TriGeo announced on Monday that it has enhanced its Contego product
to include improved log filtering and coverage to the desktop.
According to Michelle Dickman, president and CEO of TriGeo, Contego culls and cleans up information reported by several security
products into a format that SMB customers can digest.
She explained many SMBs do not have a security expert and, in fact, many don't have much of an IT department either. Therefore
presenting what is essentially the output, or log file, created by a security device in an easily understood format is important
to SMBs.
Michael Maloof, CTO at TriGeo, said that the Contego software also permits administrators to set thresholds that allow for
active response to security events in real-time.
"We infer a breach occurs and then take an active response," said Maloof.
He explained responses include blocking an IP address, route to null, disable accounts, or even shut down the offending machine.
Meanwhile, Platform Logic released Version 2.0 of its AppFire Suite of intrusion prevention software that resides on a host
and protects operating systems and applications.
According to Tom Young, vice president of sales and business development at Platform Logic, the new version now supports Unix
operating systems. Previous versions of AppFire only protected Microsoft environments and future versions will support Linux.
Available since April, the first version of the software has attracted 16 customers, said Young. He explained that Cisco is
the company's biggest competitor after they acquired Okena earlier this year.
Future releases of AppFire will focus on supporting more enterprise applications. This means Platform Logic will define normal
and abnormal behavior of applications such as those developed by SAP or PeopleSoft.
The new versions of both AppFire and Contego are available immediately.
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