NitroSecurity and SANS Institute Webcast – Benchmarking Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

Listeners will learn how to apply speed, capacity, accuracy and other benchmarks to evaluate data collection and analysis capabilities

Who: Eric Knapp, director of technical marketing at NitroSecurity, a provider of network and information security solutions

J. Michael Butler, GCFA, CISA, GSEC, Information Security consultant with LPS, a provider of tech services to the mortgage industry

What: Webcast: “Benchmarking SIEM”

When: Thursday, February 5, 2009 at 1 p.m. EST

How: To register for the webcast, please visit:

https://www.sans.org/webcasts/show.php?webcastid=92238

Proper benchmarks allow enterprises to evaluate the speed and performance of SIEM technology, including Mean Time To Remediate (MTTR) and the system’s ability to handle large amounts of data, both crucial to achieving PCI compliance and meeting operational goals. During this SANS Institute webcast, Eric Knapp of NitroSecurity and J. Michael Butler of LPS will discuss how enterprises can use industry benchmarks for evaluating SIEM systems, including speed, capacity and accuracy. Additionally, SANS Institute will release its SANS Analysts Program white paper, “Benchmarking SIEM,” during the webcast.

Attendees will also learn how to:
Properly size SIEM technology for security, compliance and business goals;
Analyze SIEM related MTTR metrics to mitigate risk and minimize operational and financial impact; and
Calculate the required response time to quarantine, block, route and control accounts, services, configurations, processes and privileges.

NitroSecurity has integrated its SIEM technology (NitroView ESM) with its database activity monitoring product (NitroView DBM) to allow enterprises to achieve network and database visibility by correlating database activity with logs, events, flows and user identity, even across pooled applications. As a result of NitroView, enterprises can significantly reduce the risk of web application and network attacks in order to minimize data loss and achieve PCI-DSS compliance.

To register, paste the following link into your browser’s address bar, https://www.sans.org/webcasts/show.php?webcastid=92238. To read the SANS Institute whitepaper, available on the same day as the webcast, please visit http://www.nitrosecurity.com/information/whitepapers/.

About NitroSecurity

NitroSecurity is the leading supplier of information security products that protect business information and infrastructure — Edge-to-Core. NitroSecurity solutions reduce business risk exposure and increase network and information availability by monitoring, protecting and alerting organizations about suspicious or harmful network activities from inside or outside the enterprise. Utilizing the industry’s fastest analytical tools, NitroSecurity will identify, correlate and remediate threats in minutes instead of hours, allowing organizations to quickly mitigate risks to the organization’s information and infrastructure.

NitroSecurity serves more than 500 enterprises across many vertical markets, including healthcare, education, financial services, government, retail, hospitality and managed services. For more information, please visit www.nitrosecurity.com.

Contacts

NitroSecurity
Frank Hayes, 603-570-3909
fhayes {at} nitrosecurity(.)com
or
SHIFT Communications
Amanda Munroe, 617-779-1816
amunroe {at} shiftcomm(.)com