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March 15th webcast to highlight importance of log data in enterprise security. San Jose, Calif....

March 15th webcast to highlight importance of log data in enterprise security.

San Jose, Calif. --March 7, 2007 -- LogLogic, the log management and intelligence leader, has announced a March 15th interactive webcast entitled "Using Log Management to Drive Operational Insight, Mitigate Risk, and Automate Compliance" and is based on the report "Delivering Log-Powered Services Across the Enterprise" by the Enterprise Strategy Group's Senior Analyst Jon Oltsik.

Delivering Log-Powered Services Across the Enterprise

Computers, networking devices, applications, and operating systems constantly log events. Security and compliance requirements like the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), and the Healthcare Insurance Portability Act (HIPAA) require companies in a variety of industries to carefully track, manage, and report on their log data in order to comply with these regulations and promote internal security. Organizations need to maintain real-time policy enforcement, alert on controls and deliver detailed reports. Data must be encrypted both while stored and during transport, ensuring an immutable set of data can be produced for the desired period of time.

The March 15th webcast will cover:

• How monitoring, troubleshooting, and policy enforcement depend upon log data
• Differentiating security incident management (SIM) and Log Management
• The importance of large organizations' need for an Enterprise log management service
• Log data's critical role in security: event detection, tracking suspicious behavior, and forensic analysis

Log Management and Intelligence (LMI) is a compliment to the Security Incident Management Manager (SIM) space. SIMs cover perimeter aspects of security (firewalls, server, network intrusion) and ensure sure no one can access the network. LMI, on the other hand, offers a continuous fingerprint of everything that happens within the network. LogLogic captures 100% of transactional data in the form of logs from applications, devices, servers, operating systems and more -- and then make it actionable through real-time alerting, reporting, and millisecond search and secure storage. LMI is a key to sound IT and business performance, data protection and overall agility to support multiple compliance regulations in tandem.

LogLogic provides the industry's most comprehensive automated reporting and alerting for compliance - including SOX, PCI, HIPAA, GLBA, ISO, ITIL, and CoBIT. Underpinned by automated collection, processing, indexing and secure storage of Log data, LogLogic's solutions use log data from virtually any source to allow organizations to reduce the cost and complexity of complying with regulations, mandates, IT and business controls. Continuous compliance requires automation of The Log Lifecycle- how you collect, alert, securely store, search, report, and share this critical data source.

Jon Oltsik, Senior Analyst
Enterprise Strategy Group

Jon Oltsik is a senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group as well as the founder of its Information Security service in 2003. Oltsik is now widely recognized as an expert in security management and technology and also focuses on identity and access management. Prior to joining ESG Jon was the founder and principal of Hype-Free Consulting. Mr. Oltsik previously served as VP of Marketing & Strategy at GiantLoop Network where he managed all external marketing activities and defined the company's strategic vision. Jon was also a Senior Analyst at Forrester Research where he covered a wide range of infrastructure and IT topics. In this role, he was frequently quoted in business journals including the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and the New York Times and was also the recipient of a prestigious "best research" award for his breakthrough report "The Internet Computing Voyage." Jon has held additional marketing management positions at Epoch Systems, Clearpoint Research, and EMC Corporation. Mr. Oltsik has MBA and a BA degree from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

About LogLogic

LogLogic® is a visionary leader in log management for business operations, security and compliance for the most demanding global enterprises as well as mid-market companies. The LogLogic family of LX-ST and MX appliances address the compliance, operations and risk mitigation needs for collecting, storing, reporting and alerting on 100 percent of IT log data from virtually any device, operating system or application. LogLogic's innovations include creating the world's first search engine for fast-moving IT log data, the first open log management platform and API, and Compliance Suites for PCI, SOX, HIPAA, and other mandates that automate using log data to enforce critical controls and regulations. LogLogic received four and half stars out of five from SC Magazine's forensic tools review in 2008 and was named a Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Rising Star in 2007. For more information, visit www.loglogic.com and http://blog.loglogic.com.

LogLogic disclaims any interest in the trademarks of others.

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Posted March 7, 2007 03:02 PM