The turn-key appliance for log management helps meet compliance requirements while lowers the operational risks and costs New York – May 15, 2012 – BalaBit IT Security – also known as the “syslog-ng company” – today announced the general availability of syslog-ng Store Box™ 3.0, the latest long term supported version of its trusted log server appliance. This latest version includes new features such as real time message rate alerts and improved search and log message rewriting capabilities. The syslog-ng Store Box™ (SSB) is a high-reliability log management appliance to collect, classify, organize, and securely store log messages for enterprises having ... [Read More]

•     BalaBit unveiled Reliable Log Transfer Protocol (RLTP)TM technology to help companies achieve “Zero Message Loss” and comply with even the most stringent regulations   •    The syslog-ng trusted logging solution became the de-facto industry standard for logging within the last decade and is now used by 650 000 companies world-wide New York, February 29, 2012 – BalaBit IT Security – also known as the “syslog-ng company” – today announced its Reliable Log Transfer Protocol (RLTP)TM technology as part of the  latest version of syslog-ng Premium Edition 4 F2 log server. The new version builds on the previously released High-Speed Reliable ... [Read More]

Background On 25 January, 2012, the European Commission has proposed a comprehensive reform of the EU's 1995 data protection rules to strengthen online privacy rights and boost Europe's digital economy. Technological progress and globalisation have profoundly changed the way our data is collected, accessed and used. In addition, the 27 EU Member States have implemented the 1995 rules differently, resulting in divergences in enforcement. A single law will do away with the current fragmentation and costly administrative burdens, leading to savings for businesses of around €2.3 billion a year. The initiative will help reinforce consumer confidence in online services, providing a ... [Read More]

Joint Solution Controls Privileged User Activity with Movie-Like Playback and Free-Text Searches of Audit Trail Content New York/Los Angeles – November 29, 2011 – BalaBit IT Security, one of the global leaders in privileged activity monitoring, trusted logging and proxy-based gateway technologies, and Lieberman Software Corporation, developers of the first fully automated privileged identity management solution, today announced a strategic alliance that integrates BalaBit’s Shell Control Box (SCB) with Lieberman Software’s Enterprise Random Password Manager™ (ERPM). The integration provides fine-grained control of user activity during privileged access. “Controlling who can access powerful privileged accounts and tracking the actions ... [Read More]

BalaBit IT Security surveyed IT professionals and found that in spite of the fact that 74% of them have already misused the company’s IT system, and could have lost his/her job, if a video recording could have proven wrongdoing, 92% of the surveyed would not object to being observed by an activity monitoring tool. New York, November 15, 2011 – BalaBit IT Security, one of the global leaders in developing privileged activity monitoring, trusted logging, and proxy-based gateway technologies, announced the “Top 6 list of the most popular prohibited activities in the workplace among IT staff” as a results of its ... [Read More]

•    The new High-Speed Reliable Logging (HSRL) technology, developed by BalaBit IT Security, revolutionizes the global logging market: it is capable of handling up to 1.000.000 log messages* per second •    BalaBit’s syslog-ng Premium Edition 4 F1 already contains the High-Speed Reliable Logging (HSRL) technology developments •    The syslog-ng trusted logging solution became the de facto industry standard for logging within the last decade and is now used by 650 000 companies world-wide New York, October 4, 2011 – BalaBit IT Security – also known as the “syslog-ng company” – announced its High-Speed Reliable Logging (HSRL) technology and the latest version ... [Read More]

The CEE™ Board is an advisory body in collaboration with logging tool and operating system vendors and the government of the United States, providing valuable input on the CEE Log Standards. BalaBit, with its existing pattern database (patternDB) and syslog-ng user group (650 000 companies word-wide) is an active contributor of logging standards creation. New York, September 13, 2011 – BalaBit IT Security, one of the global leaders in developing privileged activity monitoring, trusted logging and proxy-based gateway technologies, announced the first results of its cooperation with Common Event Expression, CEE Board in logging methods’ standardization. Version 0.6 of CEE log ... [Read More]

BalaBit IT Security, one of the global leaders in developing privileged activity monitoring, trusted logging and proxy-based gateway technologies, announced that two of its products have been reviewed by West Coast Labs, an independent product test lab, under its Performance Validated program. BalaBit’s Shell Control Box 3.0 (SCB), an activity-monitoring tool for privileged users, and syslog-ng Store Box 2.0 (SSB), a high-reliability and high-performance log management solution, were among the products that West Coast Labs evaluated and tested in its latest Technology Report (01/2011). The testers found that both BalaBit products met benchmark criteria: the appliances are easily integrated, ... [Read More]

BalaBit IT Security has established a new Research and Development Centre in Veszprém (Hungary) where the special modules of its activity monitoring product called Shell Control Box are going to be developed. BalaBit IT Security, one of the global leaders in developing privileged activity monitoring, trusted logging and proxy-based gateway technologies, has started to substantially extend its development resources supported and partly financed by an European Union R&D fund. The company opened its new Research and Development Centre in the middle of July (Hungary), in order to achieve the goal of 40% increase in revenue and work force as planned at ... [Read More]

Cloud providers will require High-Speed Reliable Logging (HSRL) solutions to be able to maintain and secure their data centers BalaBit IT Security – also known as the “syslog-ng company”, based on their trusted logging solution, which became the de facto industry standard for logging in the last decade and used by 650 000 corporate customers world-wide – forecasts a new trend on the logging market, driven by cloud providers. According to BalaBit market analysis, within the next few years not only compliance would drive the logging investments, but the exponential increase of cloud services and providers. BalaBit, one of the innovators ... [Read More]