Third Brigade Teams with ArcSight to Support Common Event Format

Third Brigade is the first Host Intrusion Prevention Systems provider to join a growing ecosystem.

Ottawa, ON, Reston, VA, and RSA Conference San Francisco, CA, Booth # 418 (PRWEB) February 5, 2007 -- Third Brigade (www.thirdbrigade.com), a security software company that specializes in host intrusion prevention systems (HIPS), today announced that it has signed a technology alliance agreement with ArcSight. As part of this agreement, Third Brigade will support the Common Event Format (CEF) standard, making it the first HIPS vendor to join approximately a dozen companies currently evaluating and supporting CEF. ArcSight is a leader in the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) market, according to recent reports from Gartner, IDC and Forrester.

The CEF standard is an open log management standard that improves the interoperability of security-related information from different security and network devices and applications. CEF provides technology companies and customers an extensible, text-based, high-performance format designed to support any source of event logs needed to gain a comprehensive view of an organization's security and compliance posture.

"With the addition of the first HIPS endpoint security solution to the CEF ecosystem, customers can capture host-level security-related event information and correlate it with 170+ data sources from over 25 different categories in order to respond more effectively to security threats," said Robert Ma, Vice President of Product Marketing at ArcSight. "By supporting CEF, Third Brigade joins a growing ecosystem of technology vendors whose solutions help customers gain insight into their security-related data for real-time threat management and regulatory compliance."

Third Brigade Deep Security (www.thirdbrigade.com/product.aspx?id=48) is an advanced, host intrusion prevention system. It brings proven network security approaches, including firewall and intrusion detection and prevention, down to individual computers and devices. It shields vulnerabilities in Windows, Linux and Unix operating systems, as well as enterprise and web applications. The next release of Third Brigade Deep Security will support the Common Event Format. As a result, events coming from Deep Security will contain all the relevant security information in standard fields and values that enable customers to compare and analyze events across their security posture.

"Security information and event management and host-based security are increasingly being deployed together by organizations that have a defense-in-depth strategy," said Brian O'Higgins, CTO of Third Brigade. "Our integration with, and support for the Common Event Format and ArcSight ESM further demonstrates our customer responsiveness, and commitment to delivering a best-of-breed, enterprise solution."

About Third Brigade

Third Brigade specializes in providing host intrusion defense systems to organizations that need to detect and prevent attacks that exploit vulnerabilities in mission critical systems. Third Brigade Deep Security allows businesses to apply comprehensive security profiles to hosts that protect against known and zero-day attacks using deep packet inspection. It helps ensure compliance and the 24-7 availability of critical systems, provides a virtual patch for software vulnerabilities, and allows organizations to deliver Internet-based services with greater security and confidence. Unlike other host intrusion detection and prevention systems, Third Brigade Deep Security provides broader, faster and simpler protection. Third Brigade. That's control.

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