CrossTec SIEM Continuity Solution
SIEM Failover and Hot Back-up Solution
In the security world when disaster strikes, whether in the form of a hurricane, a blackout, or far more likely, a virus attack or software or user error, your ability to respond to the crisis can make the difference between a bright future and the end of your business. At the very least, you are likely to incur significant costs in lost business and, perhaps more importantly, lost confidence by your customers, investors, and other stakeholders. Business continuity is not just about mitigating loss; it is about maintaining security.
Effective Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) is not only seeing and understanding to the state of your security posture when all is running smoothly, it is also about reacting, regrouping, and regaining control of your network in a hostile environment as well. The ability to step seamlessly from your security command center to a hot back up is crucial.
Layered Protection and Disaster Recovery
To achieve this you need the flexibility to layer your SIEM solution to provide protection against the full range of types of failures. The CrossTec SIEM Continuity solution provides the ability to quickly bring on-line duplicate components running simultaneously (either on or off site) with your operational installation, thereby providing continuous access to your Activeworx Security Center. This guarantees that you will not lose your vision of your network in a fail situation, and more importantly, you will not lose your all important data.
Cost Flexibility
It is important that the expense in money and time of purchasing, installing and managing any business continuity solution be commensurate with the potential cost of failure. Most hardware based SIEM solutions require a tremendous investment even for initial implementation and implementation consultation. In order for solutions like these to provide for hot failover or disaster recovery, more hardware must be added to your network at a significant cost.
The CrossTec SIEM Continuity solution allows you to collect security events simultaneously in a production location as well as a failover location, all using your own infrastructure. This business continuity solution delivers significant and affordable benefits that enable reduced cost and broader protection against the wide variety of potential loss situations that companies face everyday.
For more information click: www.crosstecsecurity.com
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Monday, February 26, 2007
5 Min Video Looks at Classroom & Lab Management
CrossTec Corporation has released an informative five minute Vodcast (Video Podcast) for those interested in software for managing technology in networked classrooms. The short video, recorded and edited by CrossTec’s Doug Taylor, talks about the challenges of managing networked labs, wireless carts and media center computers. The video highlights some of the features in CrossTec SchoolVue ( www.crossteccorp.com/schoolvue/ ) which address student time-on-task, multi-tasking teacher activities and creating a more interactive learning environment for students in computer lab environments.
Low Bandwidth:
http://www.crossteccorp.com/schoolvue/SchoolVue%20_Video/SchoolVue%20_Video.html
High Bandwidth: http://www.crossteccorp.com/schoolvue/SchoolVue_WMV/SchoolVue_WMV.html
Video Copy:
CrossTec SchoolVue is software designed for computer labs, networked classrooms, media centers and wireless carts. By helping keep students on-task, creating a more interactive learning environment and multi-tasking teacher activities SchoolVue ensures that the instructor is in full control of classroom technology at all times.
Using CrossTec SchoolVue, an Instructor can monitor students as they work, broadcast real-time videos and screens to students; record and playback screen sessions; block the use of applications and web sites; text or audio chat with students; create electronic tests; remote control student PCs and much more.
One of the major benefits of CrossTec SchoolVue is its ability to increase student time-on-task. With SchoolVue teachers can monitor and control student computer activity. With SchoolVue, teachers know exactly what every student is working on. Using SchoolVue teachers can monitor the desktops of their entire class – one at a time or on a single screen. Using SchoolVue’s thumbnail view you can see resizable bitmap images of your entire class. For a closer look – just mouse over any student Thumbnail for an enlarged view. To focus student attention, you can also lock their keyboard and mouse during lectures, screen demonstration or videos.
SchoolVue also enables teachers to allow or deny the use of selected applications and websites on student computers by creating administrative policies unique to their educational curriculum and particular class. This way, you can rest assured that your students aren’t wasting class time on games, email, Instant messages or inappropriate websites.
Another benefit of SchoolVue is Enhanced Classroom Interaction & Feedback.
SchoolVue’s Broadcast feature enables an Instructor to display their screen, or a student’s screen, to specific students or to the entire classroom – providing detailed real-time instruction and examples. You can also record these demonstrations for later playback – even by students at home. If a student needs assistance, simply take control of their computer with your own keyboard and mouse - just as if you were seated next to them.
SchoolVue’s Test Center utility is a valuable student response system which offers a very powerful tool for creating a multitude of tests, quizzes and survey questions so you can have immediate feedback to see if students comprehended a lesson. CrossTec SchoolVue incorporates a full Test Designer allowing a Teacher to set customized tests including text, pictures, audio and video questions. Once the timed test has been completed - results are automatically collated, marked and made available to the Teacher.
While SchoolVue is excellent at keeping students on-task – that doesn’t mean you have their full attention. But with SchoolVue’s ‘Show Leader’ feature, a teacher can engage students by enabling them to hand off control of a demonstration screen at any student at any time. SchoolVue also includes an Interactive White Board feature and a useful Co-Browse option where an Instructor can launch a web page on student PCs, show them particular items and leave them to work on the web site themselves.
Wouldn’t it be nice to have another five to ten minutes of teaching time per class? With SchoolVue you can easily Multi-Task your efforts to focus more time on students and learning. SchoolVue enables teachers to start computers at the beginning of the day, launch applications, reboot systems, log-off users and even shut down PCs at the end of the day. Teachers can also distribute assignments and coursework onto student desktops and collect them at the end of the class for grading. Plus, you can launch and control multi-media files on student computers and even send hot linkable messages such as long urls to students. SchoolVue also enables you to create interactive lesson plans with links to multi-media files, URLs and pre-recorded or live demonstrations screen sessions.
Teachers will immediately be more productive in a SchoolVue computer lab. But for added flexibility instructors can copy the SchoolVue Tutor module to a portable USB drive so they can work on lesson plans, create tests and recording and grade class work by launching the pre-configured SchoolVue Tutor from non-lab computers.
CrossTec SchoolVue is easy to download and install and even easier to use. SchoolVue’s minimal system resource usage and network friendly design means Tech Coordinators will have no problem getting your lab up and running quickly. And SchoolVue works great in wireless environments and with OpenGL graphics. If you have any questions during installation or use - CrossTec’s highly trained and experienced support professionals are available for fast personalized help -- and multiple training options are also available from CrossTec.
Keep student’s on-task, Multi-task your efforts and create a more interactive classroom computer lab environment today with CrossTec SchoolVue.
Low Bandwidth:
http://www.crossteccorp.com/schoolvue/SchoolVue%20_Video/SchoolVue%20_Video.html
High Bandwidth: http://www.crossteccorp.com/schoolvue/SchoolVue_WMV/SchoolVue_WMV.html
Video Copy:
CrossTec SchoolVue is software designed for computer labs, networked classrooms, media centers and wireless carts. By helping keep students on-task, creating a more interactive learning environment and multi-tasking teacher activities SchoolVue ensures that the instructor is in full control of classroom technology at all times.
Using CrossTec SchoolVue, an Instructor can monitor students as they work, broadcast real-time videos and screens to students; record and playback screen sessions; block the use of applications and web sites; text or audio chat with students; create electronic tests; remote control student PCs and much more.
One of the major benefits of CrossTec SchoolVue is its ability to increase student time-on-task. With SchoolVue teachers can monitor and control student computer activity. With SchoolVue, teachers know exactly what every student is working on. Using SchoolVue teachers can monitor the desktops of their entire class – one at a time or on a single screen. Using SchoolVue’s thumbnail view you can see resizable bitmap images of your entire class. For a closer look – just mouse over any student Thumbnail for an enlarged view. To focus student attention, you can also lock their keyboard and mouse during lectures, screen demonstration or videos.
SchoolVue also enables teachers to allow or deny the use of selected applications and websites on student computers by creating administrative policies unique to their educational curriculum and particular class. This way, you can rest assured that your students aren’t wasting class time on games, email, Instant messages or inappropriate websites.
Another benefit of SchoolVue is Enhanced Classroom Interaction & Feedback.
SchoolVue’s Broadcast feature enables an Instructor to display their screen, or a student’s screen, to specific students or to the entire classroom – providing detailed real-time instruction and examples. You can also record these demonstrations for later playback – even by students at home. If a student needs assistance, simply take control of their computer with your own keyboard and mouse - just as if you were seated next to them.
SchoolVue’s Test Center utility is a valuable student response system which offers a very powerful tool for creating a multitude of tests, quizzes and survey questions so you can have immediate feedback to see if students comprehended a lesson. CrossTec SchoolVue incorporates a full Test Designer allowing a Teacher to set customized tests including text, pictures, audio and video questions. Once the timed test has been completed - results are automatically collated, marked and made available to the Teacher.
While SchoolVue is excellent at keeping students on-task – that doesn’t mean you have their full attention. But with SchoolVue’s ‘Show Leader’ feature, a teacher can engage students by enabling them to hand off control of a demonstration screen at any student at any time. SchoolVue also includes an Interactive White Board feature and a useful Co-Browse option where an Instructor can launch a web page on student PCs, show them particular items and leave them to work on the web site themselves.
Wouldn’t it be nice to have another five to ten minutes of teaching time per class? With SchoolVue you can easily Multi-Task your efforts to focus more time on students and learning. SchoolVue enables teachers to start computers at the beginning of the day, launch applications, reboot systems, log-off users and even shut down PCs at the end of the day. Teachers can also distribute assignments and coursework onto student desktops and collect them at the end of the class for grading. Plus, you can launch and control multi-media files on student computers and even send hot linkable messages such as long urls to students. SchoolVue also enables you to create interactive lesson plans with links to multi-media files, URLs and pre-recorded or live demonstrations screen sessions.
Teachers will immediately be more productive in a SchoolVue computer lab. But for added flexibility instructors can copy the SchoolVue Tutor module to a portable USB drive so they can work on lesson plans, create tests and recording and grade class work by launching the pre-configured SchoolVue Tutor from non-lab computers.
CrossTec SchoolVue is easy to download and install and even easier to use. SchoolVue’s minimal system resource usage and network friendly design means Tech Coordinators will have no problem getting your lab up and running quickly. And SchoolVue works great in wireless environments and with OpenGL graphics. If you have any questions during installation or use - CrossTec’s highly trained and experienced support professionals are available for fast personalized help -- and multiple training options are also available from CrossTec.
Keep student’s on-task, Multi-task your efforts and create a more interactive classroom computer lab environment today with CrossTec SchoolVue.
Friday, February 16, 2007
Activeworx Podcast from RSA
BankInfoSecurity.com and the Information Security Media Group recently attended the 2007 RSA Conference held in San Francisco in February and conducted several interviews. RSA is a premier information security conference with 400 of the top vendors in the infosec industry exhibiting including CrossTec.
One of the interviews they conducted was with Don Vander Wall, Senior Account Manager with CrossTec's Security Division. In the the following audio Podcast Don discusses the advantages of the Activeworx Security Center software solution over hardware based security information event management tools. Don also discussed how Activeworx applies to the banking and finance industry.
To hear the Activeworx Podcast: http://www.bankinfosecurity.com/podcasts/rsa2007/rsa2007_crosstec.mp3
For the entire selection of interviews: http://www.bankinfosecurity.com/podcasts.php?podcastID=13
One of the interviews they conducted was with Don Vander Wall, Senior Account Manager with CrossTec's Security Division. In the the following audio Podcast Don discusses the advantages of the Activeworx Security Center software solution over hardware based security information event management tools. Don also discussed how Activeworx applies to the banking and finance industry.
To hear the Activeworx Podcast: http://www.bankinfosecurity.com/podcasts/rsa2007/rsa2007_crosstec.mp3
For the entire selection of interviews: http://www.bankinfosecurity.com/podcasts.php?podcastID=13
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