Jeff Jaffe’s Blog

For some time we have discussed how technology can help companies enhance their tracking of events and as a result address compliance. It was almost three years ago that I first identified corporate governance as a key trend; and the opportunity to address it with identity management and security event management. Over the past several months we have intensified this effort.

A Three Step Strategy

Our three step strategy to address this imperative is:

• Integrate core assets to create a Compliance Management Platform.
• Acquire additional complementary assets that enhance compliance. Most notable was Privileged User Management to help secure Linux and UNIX systems.
• Work with key partners to bring them into our compliance framework.

The reason for this sequence is clear. We start with the basics, using the vast assets that we have in Identity Management and Security and Information Event Management. By adding complementary assets we further strengthen the solution. With this comprehensive technical approach, it is now time to bring an ecosystem of partners under our umbrella.

RSA Conference

It was gratifying to make progress on the last of these steps during last week’s RSA Conference.

Last Monday we announced certification of our Sentinel product with SAP’s NetWeaver technology platform. I have frequently pointed to our close partnership with SAP related to Linux. With this new announcement Novell technology further services SAP customers with enhanced functionality. Now alerts that come through SAP’s BC-XAL interface are brought into our comprehensive analysis of security related events.

We pride ourselves on the scalability of Sentinel to very large workloads. SAP environments are very demanding, so customers have a solution that scales with SAP.

Last Tuesday we announced together with McAfee that their ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) platform will be able to provide events to Sentinel as well. Two complementary security vendors work in an interoperable fashion to bring the best capabilities to our common customers.

Call for More Partners

Our Compliance platform is getting traction in the industry. Our next goal is to continue to intensify our integration with key partners. If you need compliance for your solution—please let us know!

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