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For Security Practitioners by Security Practitioners

AlienVault is the creator of OSSIM, the de facto standard Open Source SIEM with over 160,000 downloads and users in 80 countries. AlienVault founders Julio Casal and Dominique Karg got their start in the early 1990s, installing firewalls and providing managed security services for large companies in Spain. As hands-on security practitioners, they struggled to keep up with all the security tools they used and dashboards they had to view in order to investigate and respond to ever increasing threats. Necessity is the mother of invention and in order to manage their managed security service provider (MSSP) operations better, AlienVault founders developed OSSIM and published it as an open source project.

The founding AlienVault team built into OSSIM all the open source tools they used – tools like nmap, Snort, OSSEC, openVAS, NFDump, Nagios and more – to automatically discover assets, assess vulnerabilities, detect intrusions and monitor systems. They built a security correlation engine to make sense of all the data and to automatically validate alerts before escalating them up for human intervention. And they built a single console through which people could easily investigate and figure out exactly what was going on anywhere, anytime within the system.

Making Sophisticated Security Accessible to Everybody, Everywhere

AlienVault believes that until everybody is secure, nobody is secure. Unlike most sophisticated security products that are complex, costly and only accessible to intelligence agencies and top tier banks, OSSIM and the powerful OSSIM based AlienVault Unified Security Management Platform (AV-USM) is accessible to more organizations around the world, from telcos and universities, to bank branch offices, retail stores, and defense departments and government organizations. OSSIM can simply be downloaded and used for free, and professional AlienVault solutions are priced to protect those with more demanding threat management and compliance needs.

AlienVault also believes that we must work together to be more secure; not just by contributing to open source projects and investing in security research, but also by sharing threat information so that an attack on any single member arms everyone in the community. The AlienVault Open Threat Exchange makes such a collaborative defense mechanism possible. AlienVault makes sharing simple, takes responsibility for validating data and makes it easy for OSSIM and AlienVault deployments to act on that threat intelligence.

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