CrossTec provides Multiple Educational IT Management Solutions

Since 1996 CrossTec has partnered with thousands of K-12, Junior Colleges, Universities and trade schools to provide educational technology management solutions that help teachers teach and learners learn.

While best known for its Lab Management solution, SchoolVue, CrossTec also provides educational institutions with software for supporting and fixing PC across campus (CrossTec Remote Control), for distributing software and managing IT assets (EMS) for managing school help desks (SupportDesk) and for managing security information and Logs (Activeworx)

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CrossTec integrates Third Brigade host intrusion prevention system (HIPS) with Activeworx

CrossTec integrates Third Brigade host intrusion prevention system (HIPS) with
Activeworx security information and event management (SIEM) solution

Boca Raton, FL, -- March 19, 2007 – CrossTec Corporation (www.crosstecsecurity.com) has announced a technology partnership with Third Brigade a security software company that specializes in host intrusion prevention systems. Third Brigade’s HIPS product has been integrated with CrossTec Activeworx Security Center, a high value, low cost SIEM software solution that excels at normalizing, correlating, and reporting on multi-vendor security information.

“For CrossTec customers, Third Brigade provides powerful host-level protection, and detailed security information that fuels the CrossTec SIEM,” remarked Jeff Richards, VP of CrossTec’s Security Division. “For Third Brigade customers, the CrossTec SIEM provides the ability to consolidate and correlate large volumes of host security log data with other security and event information. By combining the two solutions, organizations will be more secure, and have a better view of their entire security posture.

Customers that want to leverage investments in both CrossTec SIEM and Third Brigade HIPS, can do so now without having to incur costs and effort related to custom integration or support.” “We’re thrilled that CrossTec has recognized the tremendous synergy between SIEM and HIPS,” said Brian O’Higgins, CTO of Third Brigade. “Our host intrusion prevention system provides critical protection for endpoints, and is a rich and valuable source of detailed, host-level security event information. Third Brigade provides the response/remediation mechanism that is a key ‘leadership’ feature for vendors in the SIEM market, according to analysts.”

“Integration was a snap,” added Richards. “Our engineers were impressed with the ease at which they were able to normalize the Third Brigade log data. Third Brigade’s open product architecture, and detailed, integration-specific documentation, allowed us to complete the integration quickly and simply.”

Activeworx Security Center collects, normalizes and analyzes data from virtually any security device from any vendor. At the heart of Activeworx is the powerful Activeworx Event Framework (AEF) which recognizes event data from various vendor devices such as Firewalls, IDS, IPS, Syslog, SNMP, Vulnerability Assessment, Antivirus, Routers, Switches, VPN’s, Windows Event Logs, and more. Activeworx Security Center also provides powerful n-tiered backend functionality such as flexible collection engines utilizing standards based parsing algorithms and memory based correlation engine to identify hidden threats. Activeworx supplies detailed security alerts, vital reports for investigations and regulatory compliance and deep forensics tools.


About Third Brigade

Third Brigade (www.thirdbrigade.com) 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.

CrossTec Announces New Activeworx Audit Logger to be Released in Q2

CrossTec Announces New Activeworx Audit Logger to be Released in Q2

Security Log Storage Software Solution Boasts High-Speed Searches, Advanced Compression and Integration with SIEM for better reporting

InfoSec – Orlando, FL (March 19, 2007) -- CrossTec Corporation announced today that it will release a new audit logging tool in Q2 of 2007. The audit logging software solution will help simplify security log collection, storage and analysis. The audit logger will tightly integrate with CrossTec’s security information and event management (SIEM) software solution Activeworx Security Center. The audit logging solution will boast compression in excess of 25:1, incredible search speeds, and the ability to log huge amounts of security events.

Requirements for data retention of historical logs from compliance regulations such as Sarbanes Oxley, PCI, FISMA, HIPAA and GLBA dictate a cost effective means to collect and store audit-relevant security log data from a wide range of sources. Given the variety of log formats and the ever-growing volume of logs generated, organizations need a log storage solution that can support the timely collection of large log volumes.

Activeworx, which includes over 250 compliance reports out-of-the-box will now be able to search and report on massive amounts of historical data stored in ActiveLogger. For added integrity, the audit logger’s data is verifiedusing MD5 checksums

Initial testing of the product, which will compete directly with similar offerings from Arcsight, RippleTech, SenSage and LogLogic, show benchmarks exceeding over 50,000 events per second (EPS) using 32 or 64 bit Windows machines. “One of the major benefits of the Activeworx Audit Logger is its speed of recording and searching data”, says Activeworx Chief Developer Jeff Dell. “Because of the tight integration with Activeworx Security Center, users may need to store just a fraction of their data into ASC and the rest in the logger.,” continued Dell, “This means users won’t have to sift through all the hay just to find the needle.”

Product Highlights :

- Comprehensive audit logging - with optimized search and analysis capabilities for your entire infrastructure.

- Meet regulatory compliance - with forensically sound collection and retention of all security events on your network for years, including automatic log rotation and integrity checksums.

- Fully integrated SIEM - simply send any archived audit logs into the ASC Event Framework for deeper forensic analysis of a specific incident, even if that incident occurred years ago.

- Distributed and scalable - Easily create log aggregation points at as many locations as necessary to minimize bandwidth consumption, increase security, and optimize performance.

- ASC's Audit Logger is a true enterprise solution that is not tied down to one appliance or a relational database. You can log tens of thousands of events at as many locations as necessary without exponentially increasing cost or resources.

- IT administrators and helpdesk management will gain direct visibility into system, network and application health while improving network and system troubleshooting activities.

The Activeworx Audit Logger is scheduled for release in May of 2007 and will list for under $50,000.

About CrossTec Corporation:

Since 1999, CrossTec’s Activeworx brand security tools (www.crosstecsecurity.com) have been downloaded more then 100,000 times. The flagship product, Activeworx Security Center (ASC), is a cost-effective security information and event management (SIEM) software solution that provides real-time security device log monitoring with correlated alerts, management and compliance reports, log data storage, and tools for advanced, in-depth forensic analysis. CrossTec’s mission is to protect organizations by reducing the time it takes to analyze massive amounts of event log data from multiple devices and vendors to produce real-time alerts and vital reports that pinpoint network security breaches.

www.crosstecsecurity.com

See Richmond SupportDesk in this 16 minute webinar

View this 16-minute on-demand webinar of Richmond SupportDesk

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Learn more about the powerful features in Richmond SupportDesk

Richmond SupportDesk from CrossTec is a powerful and highly scalable IT service management solution that is based on the latest industry standard best practices. Built on nearly two decades of service management experience, SupportDesk integrates a broad set of feature-rich modules to deliver a high quality support solution for internal ITSM, external managed services and customer support. SupportDesk is designed to increase help desk technician productivity, serve customers faster and more effectively as well as lower the overall cost of providing support.

Got Snort®? Short Video Shows off Activeworx SMC

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5-minute video shows how Activeworx SMC can help you manage multiple Snort® sensors

Activeworx SMC integrates tightly with the Snort® IDS event database to provide high valued information from your existing Snort® IDS installations, without modifying the original database schema. Whether it’s a new Snort® installation or one that has been in place for years, there has never been a more effective, less intrusive, and less expensive centralized management console for Snort.

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