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| Type80 Introduces Type80 Syslog for IBM z/OS Type80 Security Software, Inc. has announced the immediate availability of Type80 Syslog, a real-time security event monitoring solution for the IBM z/OS operating system. Despite years of predictions that the mainframe would die, "Big Iron" remains one of the most critical components of many Federal Agency and Global 1.000 IT infrastructures. Type80 Syslog helps centralize security event monitoring, bridging the gap between mainframe and network security products. Type80 Syslog is based on the company's flagship solution, SMA_RT, which uses intelligent data mining from multiple system sources to provide increased mainframe security. SMA_RT is a security monitoring program that looks for patterns of abuse and sends real-time alerts to security administrators. Type80 Syslog uses a scaled-down version of the SMA_RT technology for extending mainframe console messages and write-to-operator messages to external log retention servers using the standard TCP/IP Syslog protocol. This enables easy integration with enterprise management platforms such as Security Information Management (SIM) products. Key customer benefits of the Type80 Syslog solution include: * Easy installation without any downtime * Presents messages in real time for immediate action * Delivers real-time legacy messages to enterprise-wide security products already purchased * Helps centralize security event monitoring between mainframe and network security products * Helps organizations comply with mandated security requirements such as FISMA, HIPAA, SOX, GLBA, etc. Prior to the availability of Type80 solutions, other vendors have developed "mainframe agents" to integrate mainframe and network security system alerts. This "agent" approach simply takes the console messages - all messages, non-filtered - and feeds them to an external source such as a SIM product using a batch-mode file transfer process. There are two key problems with this approach: First, the information is not delivered in real-time, and second, because there is no filtering most of the console messages delivered have nothing to do with security and create "white noise". write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Computing News :: home page |