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Intellitactics and Mazu Networks Partner to Offer Proactive Alerting and Response

Mazu Networks' Network Behavior Analysis System detects violations; Intellitactics' Security Manager correlates with policy to automate notification and response

RESTON, Va. and CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Intellitactics, a leader in enterprise security and compliance management solutions, and Mazu Networks, the leading(1) provider of Network Behavior Analysis (NBA) systems, today announced the integration of Intellitactics Security Manager, a consolidated security event manager, with Mazu Profiler (TM) to empower organizations to more effectively manage business operations on their networks. The integration provides daily automated value to mutual customers of the two firms in the form of a command-and-control center that provides a holistic view of network activity and the ability to efficiently monitor, analyze, and respond to threats from a single console.

Intellitactics Security Manager is an automated enterprise security management solution that simplifies the management of security for compliance and enterprise defense. Security Manager consolidates and correlates data from any number of security devices, networks, operating systems, databases, and applications without the need to customize the data sources being monitored. Simple to deploy in any size and type of organization, Security Manager enables real-time alerting of threats, attacks or control violations, automates escalation of incidents, and reporting. Mazu Profiler provides flow analysis for continuous global visibility into how users, applications, hosts, and devices are behaving on the network; and detects if there are meaningful changes from their typical behavior that indicate a network performance issue, a security threat, or an application problem. Users immediately understand who is talking to whom, what applications and services are running, where the traffic is flowing, and if there are any meaningful changes that indicate a network issue, security threat, or application problem.

Through the integration, Intellitactics and Mazu Networks customers get the benefit of proactive collection, notification, and analysis of events in the context of other security events across the network. Upon receiving Mazu Profiler events, Security Manager analyzes the event against corporate-defined and regulatory-mandated compliance policies, creates alerts, and notifies security analysts in real-time. Security Manager's alerting enables automated actions and notifications to accelerate investigation and incident response.

"This integration facilitates more than event collection, it enables users to interact with Mazu Profiler data from the Intellitactics console," explains Paul Carman, director of product management, Intellitactics. "When even seconds count, this integration accelerates timely and accurate response. Intellitactics centralizes and consolidates the results of management products like Mazu Profiler using Active Response(TM) integration modules. Once Intellitactics receives the Mazu Profiler events and generates an alert, security analysts easily access all the detail collected by Mazu Profiler for the events triggering the ISM alert. The analyst can also pass the source and target IP address of any alert from any source to Mazu Profiler in order to access all of the behavior details Mazu Profiler has detected for that specific IP address."

"Combining the deep contextual data that Mazu Profiler provides with Intellitactics' automated alert management enables our joint customers to more intelligently and quickly respond to threats," said Charles Kaplan, chief technology strategist, Mazu Networks. "Customers benefit from this integrated solution; having access to a focused NBA system and security event manager from one console presents an opportunity for effective and efficient response to an attack or threat."

Availability

The integrated solution is available now. For more information on the Intellitactics/Mazu Profiler integration, visit http://www.intellitactics.com and http://www.mazunetworks.com .

About Intellitactics, Inc.

Headquartered in Reston, VA, Intellitactics provides the world's leading enterprise security management solutions used by security analysts, operations, and risk officers to achieve cost-effective regulatory compliance; mitigate risk by automating security operations, and accelerate incident resolution to ensure the availability of critical business services. Intellitactics' products empower organizations to simplify security and compliance. The flagship product, Security Manager, combines event, alert, and incident management to mitigate exposure to cybercrime, with extensive automated analysis and reporting. A strong complement to Security Manager is Intellitactics(TM) SAM, which measures security value and features security assurance metrics(TM) on a configurable dashboard. Other products include Intellitactics for Compliance and Intellitactics for Enterprise Defense. Intellitactics was awarded Common Criteria Certification in December 2004, making it the first software provider to earn this certification as a security information and event management solution. Founded in 1996, Intellitactics is backed by JMI Equity Fund LP and Lazard Technology Partners and is ranked by well-known industry analysts as a market leader known for innovative solutions, low total cost of ownership, and a commitment to customer success. Visit us at http://www.intellitactics.com .

About Mazu Networks, Inc.

Mazu Networks provides continuous global visibility into how users, applications, hosts and devices are behaving on a network, and detects if there are meaningful changes from their typical behavior that indicate a network performance issue, a security threat, or an application problem. Through Mazu Profiler, enterprises understand usage patterns, consumption rates and dependencies between users, applications and network infrastructure. Only Mazu Profiler offers continuous global visibility; passive, agent-less deployment, automatic and custom behavior analysis; and superior integration with network and security products. Mazu Networks' customers optimize their network infrastructure to support their business, secure their internal networks and maximize application availability. For more information, please visit http://www.mazunetworks.com .

(1) See: http://www.mazunetworks.com/news-events/061201-yankee.php .

SOURCE Intellitactics, Inc.