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News & Events
AlienVault Professional SIEM Version 2.3 Released Jul 20, 2010
AlienVault Inc - the leading global provider of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions - announce the immediate availability of the AlienVault Open Source and Professional SIEM version 2.3.
Among the enhancements delivered with version 2.3 is the ability to create customized views in the SIEM analyzer. The policy engine has been rebuilt to provide even greater ease of use and the remote distributed scanning has been improved.
As well, database upgrades are now done automatically without any need of user management.
The Report Wizard in the Professional SIEM version provides greatly improved reporting capabilities with more than
1,800 new canned reports and dramatically simplified custom report generation.
For more detailed information about the enhancements to the AlienVault SIEM
family, please follow the link below to view content created to illustrate
these new capabilities available in version 2.3:
Online Presentation: What's New in OSSIM 2.3?
Video: What's New in OSSIM 2.3?
For new systems, please check out the new installer.
You can upgrade your system as usual in order to get it from 2.2 to 2.3.
You may be required to install patches during your upgrade, please read
these release notes
carefully. The upgrade is straightforward but there are a couple of important things to be aware of, as described in the release notes.
Keep in mind, you will need to perform an apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade even after a fresh install.
"This release is significant in the depth and flexibility of the reporting it provides our customers", said Dominique Karg, CTO of AlienVault and inventor of the Open Source SIEM (OSSIM) technology which the company's products are based on. "In the three years since the company was founded the Professional SIEM product has advanced leaps and bounds beyond what we could accomplish with the Open Source version. This release builds on all the other enterprise-focused functionality our team has built into the Professional SIEM, increasing our customers' ability to address the mounting challenges of compliance and operations."
Version 2.3 of the AlienVault Professional SIEM provides customer with the new Report Wizard which allows for easy creation of rich reports for compliance analysis and operations, as well as executive reports for management oversight and auditing. "We have to be able to see what is happening in our environment and we have to be able to demonstrate that visibility to auditors, management and other governance bodies," said Enrique Ramirez Palacin, IT Manager for ChronoExpres. "We rely on AlienVault Professional SIEM as a key resource in managing our security operations. The reporting capabilities in this release make it much easier for us to demonstrate our effectiveness to those we are responsible to and to justify our security budget requests."
Andrew Hay, Senior Analyst at The 451 Group, observed "AlienVault has brought the potential of Open Source to bear in the ESIM market (Enterprise Security Information Management, encompassing SIEM/SIM/SEM, and Log Management). Competitors can no longer dismiss AlienVault as a simple science project concocted by a loose fraternity of programmers aimed at solving an isolated problem. The Professional SIEM product combines the breadth and flexibility of Open Source software with the features and functionality present in any of AlienVault's competition in the ESIM space."
With over 10,000 organizations using AlienVault technology to manage their security operations, improvements to the Professional SIEM family provides an increased array of options to an enormous segment of the market. "We started with the Open Source SIEM because it fit our environment at the time. As we grew the usage of the tool we upgraded to the Professional SIEM for the support, reliability and performance. This advance in reporting further confirms our choice," said Mr. Palacin.
About AlienVault
AlienVault is the leading global provider of Security Information and Event Management solutions, providing the technology for more than half of all SIEM installations in the world. The creators of the Open Source SIEM (OSSIM), the company provides the AlienVault Professional SIEM family of products through channels worldwide along with training and support services. For more information, visit www.alienvault.com.
About ChronoExpres
Chronoexpres, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Spanish national postal company, specializes in express shipment of documents and parcels. ChronoExpres has a history of over 20 years in the express shipping industry, an extensive operational network of 57 branches, a team of professionals 3500 strong and 2500 vehicles.
Adara primarily targets Spain and Portugal-based ventures - as well as ventures based elsewhere in Europe that are committed to developing significant operations in these markets - and has already recorded one successful exit, in a Germany-based venture.
About The 451 Group
The 451 Group is an independent technology-industry analyst company focused on the business of enterprise IT innovation. The company's analysts provide critical and timely insight into the market and competitive dynamics of innovation in emerging technology segments. Clients of the company-at vendor, investor, service-provider and end-user organizations-rely on The 451 Group's insight to support both strategic and tactical decision-making for competitive advantage.
© 2010 AlienVault, Inc. All rights reserved. AlienVault and the AlienVault logo are trademarks of AlienVault, Inc.
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AlienVault Moves Global Headquarters to Silicon Valley Jul 13, 2010
AlienVault, LLC -the leading global provider of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions - today officially opened its global headquarters in Campbell, CA.
This move brings the management and operation of the most-used SIEM solution into the heart of US and international technology business.
"By our plan, this was the time to come to the center of our industry", said Julio Casal, co-founder and CEO of AlienVault, who conceived the idea for the technology in Madrid in 2003. "Directing the company from Spain worked very well in our early days, and we will maintain our multiple offices there and our tight connection with the Spanish community. With customers on every continent, however, the time had come to bring our primary operations to the world's technology hub."
Alberto Gomez of Adara Venture Partners, the lead investor in AlienVault, said the move aligns the company with its existing growth plans in the US market. "American analysts are already taking note of AlienVault's growing leadership and agreeing with the team's decision to increase the sales and marketing operations here in the US. Locating the executive team here takes that to the next level, allowing the organization to focus sharply on the US market." Mr. Gomez, an expert in Open Source business models, notes, "Being the leading Open Source solution in Security Management has allowed AlienVault to quickly penetrate the US market and to establish an enormous install base here. Having operations managed from here in America will be key to capitalizing on that great momentum."
Andrew Conry-Murray, Business Editor for Information Week and Network Computing, said the move makes sense. "U.S. companies struggle to manage security risks while also meeting a host of compliance mandates. SIEM technology can help. By basing its operations in Silicon Valley, AlienVault sends a clear signal of its commitment to the North American market."
The company's new offices are located in the Pruneyard complex in Campbell, California. The facility was selected for its central location in Silicon Valley and capacity to host the company's continued growth and popular training programs.
About AlienVault
AlienVault, Inc. is the leading global provider of Security Information and Event Management solutions, providing the technology for more than half of all SIEM installations in the world. The creators of the Open Source SIEM (OSSIM), the company provides the AlienVault Professional SIEM family of products through channels worldwide along with training and support services. For more information, visit www.alienvault.com
About Adara Venture Partners
Adara is a venture capital firm founded in 2003 which focuses activity in promoting the development of companies in the Information Technology sector.
Adara primarily targets Spain and Portugal-based ventures - as well as ventures based elsewhere in Europe that are committed to developing significant operations in these markets - and has already recorded one successful exit, in a Germany-based venture.
About Network Computing
Network Computing is "For IT, By IT". It delivers timely strategy & tactics, news, in-depth features, expert reviews, opinionated blogs, newsletters and digital issues on an array of key enterprise technologies: back-up and recovery, data center architecture and technologies, data protection, network and storage management, unified communications, virtualization, wan acceleration, and wireless networking. For more information, visit networkcomputing.com.
© 2010 AlienVault, LLC. All rights reserved. AlienVault and the AlienVault logo are trademarks of AlienVault, LLC.
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AlienVault announces $4M in Series A Funding Jun 8, 2010
AlienVault Inc - the leading global provider of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions - announced that it has secured $4M in Series A round financing from Adara Venture Partners with participation by Teldat Group and Neotec. The investment will fuel the company's accelerated market expansion in the United States.
"We are very pleased to have secured this vote of confidence from the venture capital community", said Julio Casal, CEO of AlienVault. "After successfully growing the company for the past three years this support will help us solidify our market leadership. The benefits of association with such experienced" Since the founders originally wrote the Open Source SIEM (OSSIM) in 2003 more than half of all SIEM installations worldwide have deployed the technology. Mr. Casal along with co-founder and CTO Dominique Karg created AlienVault to support the growing OSSIM user base and to provide enterprise-level commercial products based on technology.
"We see incredible potential in AlienVault", said Alberto Gomez of Adara Venture Partners. "It is not often that you find a growing company that has established such a dominant market share so early and with such opportunity still lying ahead. We look forward to working with Julio and his team to realize the full possibility of AlienVault."
Antonio García Marcos, President of Teldat observed "AlienVault is a fantastic investment opportunity in a company with cutting edge technology in security at a worldwide level and a wonderful opportunity to share ideas for new products, improve processes and to advance the international presence of both organizations". Julio Casal, the Director and Founder of AlienVault also said, "Teldat is without a doubt the best partner we could have on board to achieve our goals for internationalization and growth over the next few years".
About AlienVault
AlienVault, Inc. is the leading global provider of Security Information and Event Management solutions, providing the technology for more than half of all SIEM installations in the world. The creators of the Open Source SIEM (OSSIM), the company provides the AlienVault Professional SIEM family of products through channels worldwide along with training and support services. For more information, visit www.alienvault.com
About Adara Venture Partners
Adara is a venture capital firm founded in 2003 which focuses activity in promoting the development of companies in the Information Technology sector.
Adara primarily targets Spain and Portugal-based ventures - as well as ventures based elsewhere in Europe that are committed to developing significant operations in these markets - and has already recorded one successful exit, in a Germany-based venture.
About Teldat
TELDAT is a leading manufacturer of enterprise access equipment with more than 20 years in the market. Head of a group of companies active in voice/data integrated communications, security, energy efficiency high capacity optical fiber equipment and professional audio, Teldat is headquartered in Madrid, Spain with branches in 20 counties.
© 2010 AlienVault, Inc. All rights reserved. AlienVault and the AlienVault logo are trademarks of AlienVault, Inc.
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AlienVault OpenSource and Professional SIEM 2.2 released Feb 20, 2010
We're proud to announce the immediate availability of OSSIM 2.2, both in it's free and commercial open source versions.
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AlienVault at RSA 2010 Feb 12, 2010
AlienVault will be presenting it's new v2.2 Open Source and Professional SIEM version at RSA 2010 San Francisco, 1-5 March. You'll be able to find us at booth 553, where you will be able to ask the creators anything you want about the product, while receiving information and on-site demos.
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AlienVault at Shmoocon Feb 4, 2010
AlienVault will be attending ShmooCon 2010 by means of Christopher Adelman, VP of Sales and Marketing.
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AlienVault at LinuxJournal Feb 4, 2010
Check out the great article published inside the March 2010 edition of Linux Journal, entitled: 'AlienVault: the Future of Security Information Management'
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AlienVault funded with $3,5 million Jan 15, 2010
by communications manufacturer Teldat, Adara Ventures and Neotec, venture capital investors.
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AlienVault Open Source SIEM (OSSIM) included in the SANS G20 Security Controls automation tool list Jan 14, 2010
The SANS institute periodically publishes a list of tools which automate part or all of the "CAG 20 Critical Security Controls".
AlienVault's OSSIM has been pointed out by the users as helping in the automation of part 6, "Maintenance, Monitoring, and Analysis of Security Audit Logs", along with Splunk, Arcsight, Intellitactics and Trusted Computer Solutions.
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AlienVault Launches Next Generation Integrated Security Management Sep 1, 2009
Deluge of Advances in OSSIM; Enhanced Usability; Streamlined Performance; Offers Enterprises Expanded Protection
AlienVault, the inventors of OSSIM, today announced the immediate availability of AlienVault Professional SIEM 2.1 and The Open Source SIEM (OSSIM) 2.1. OSSIM was created over six years ago to address the needs of many security engineers to make sense out of the volumes of logs produced by Intrusion Detection Systems. Since then OSSIM has become the first and only open source SIEM available. Now, in 2009, OSSIM has surpassed 200,000 downloads per year, and an estimated 10,000 installations globally. Thanks to the enthusiastic support, feedback and contributions from our worldwide community of users, integrators, managed service providers and developers AlienVault has become recognized as a global leader in Integrated Security Management solutions that help large enterprises cost effectively mitigate and address security incidents, traffic management issues, and system outages; and vastly reduce the impact of compliance, and IT data overload on IT professionals.
Founded by the creators of OSSIM, AlienVault remains true to the original vision to provide visibility into the risks, vulnerabilities and constraints exposed by the hodgepodge of point solutions, devices and systems that otherwise protect our information assets. And true to its commitment to open source technology, AlienVault continues to advance and build on OSSIM, the Open Source SIEM while offering large enterprises and organizations a commercially licensed alternative that provides all of the accountability and protections that such organizations require. All AlienVault solutions, free or commercial, have been significantly improved in the new release, and are even better able to enhance an organization's ability to manage, secure and audit their entire IT infrastructure. AlienVault SIEM 2.1 is faster, more resilient and easier to work with: massive performance improvements, a brand new, highly customizable user interface that anyone from sysadmins to execs can benefit from.
"AlienVault SIEM and OSSIM 2.1 provide sophisticated SIEM and SEM functionality along with the benefits from a large and growing open source community," said Dominique Karg, CTO and Co-founder of AlienVault. "Thanks to the amazing activity, and development effort over the last year OSSIM is at the level of the best SIMs available in the market, be they proprietary or open source. Many features have been improved and a number added, from a low level installer through package management, code optimizations and enhancements to packet capture speed, easier integration and configuration, and a completely rebuilt interface with tighter inter-element integration."
Javier Lopez-Tello, Director of Operations added, "the availability of the commercial and free open source versions opens the door for small and medium-sized managed service companies to compete on an even playing field with the big guys. Managed security services represent a large and growing segment of the market; particularly as companies large and small look to do more with less. We are very pleased to offer an extremely compelling business model for managed security service companies who are looking to improve their margins and be more competitive. Technical advances in AlienVault Professional SIEM have made this possible."
AlienVault Professional and OSSIM 2.1 also include substantial scalability and manageability improvements, a compliance module, improved policy management, a security feed (directives, plug-ins, snort rules, prioritizations, cross correlation tables), and the ability for anyone to create custom reports. The release is also available as an appliance that offers substantially improved performance over the previous release. The appliance implements a 64 bit compilation of the software, an enhanced database system, a tuned operating system and kernel, and network optimization for capturing high loads of network traffic. The result is a 30-fold improvement in throughput, and a 20x improvement in database and management server performance; which, in turn, will result in more expandable implementations that can handle more traffic and more traffic types per server and per sensor; and the consequent cost savings, improved IT security and network management, enhanced incident response and better overall ROI. "The result has been very positive since now we have a better grip on what is happening in our management networks as far as security is concerned," said Javier Díaz-Palacios, Director of Security and Telecommunications for Telefónica, one of the world's largest telecom carriers.
The following are just a few of the enhancements included in the release:
- Completely rewritten policy management.
- Compliance modules.
- New interface, enhanced usability.
- Integrated knowledge database.
- Added reporting server for custom user-generated reports.
- Multiple profiles can be configured for distributed systems: sensors, server, database, etc.
- Fully integrated package system providing frequent usability and security fixes.
- Nessus -> OpenVAS migration.
- Amazing packet capture speed improvements using PFRing (64 bit version only).
- Now using OSSEC 2.x
- Many more...
A new website (http://www.alienvault.com) has been launched, today, where AlienVault Professional Demo and The Open Source SIEM 2.1 are immediately available for download.
About AlienVault
AlienVault is the only software manufacturer that provides users, managed service providers, security integrators, and developers with a sustainable, cost effective means to manage risk, respond to security incidents and compliance audits, and troubleshoot network and traffic management issues. AlienVault is the creator of OSSIM, the most downloaded and mature open source SIEM on the market with more than 200K downloads per year, and an estimated 10,000 unique installations around the world. Through its active developer and user community that contribute to a knowledgebase and blogs on www.OSSIM.net, AlienVault seeks to improve interoperability of security products, network devices and systems on an ongoing basis through an open framework of integrated security and network management components. AlienVault offers a free open source distribution of OSSIM, and provides a commercial version for users such as the Federal Government, as well as publicly traded companies that require greater accountability. AlienVault offers a complete range of services, including: support, software subscription, version maintenance, training, certification, data feeds and consulting.
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Adara Ventures and Neotec invest in Spanish venture AlienVault Jul 1, 2009
Adara Ventures and Neotec, IT investment firms, announce their participation in AlienVault, developers of OSSIM
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Case Study: Campus Party Dec 4, 2007
‘Campus Party’ OSSIM deployment: read the case study of this challenging implementation
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OSSIM appliances Nov 23, 2007
Boxed ossim version ready to be deployed. Perfect for remote sites or large deployments.
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OSSIM MSSP Solution Aug 30, 2007
Get acquainted with the benefits of the OSSIM MSSP Solution
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Case Study: Telefonica and OSSIM Jun 22, 2007
Case Study describing an OSSIM deployment at Telefonica
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