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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 log infrastructure for compliance and maintenance reasons. As an "out-of-the-box" log server SSB consolidates enterprise-wide logging needs helping organizations to lower operational risks and costs.   Several laws, regulations and industrial standards - such as the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) - explicitly require central collection, periodic review, and long-time archiving of log messages at organizations. With syslog-ng Store Box™, computer security records are stored in sufficient detail, and provide a simple way to monitor and review these logs. Routine log reviews and continuous log analysis help to identify security incidents, policy violations, or other operational problems. Logs also often form the base of auditing and forensics analysis, product troubleshooting and support.   ”The difference between today’s and tomorrow’s logging trends is that today organizations have to log for compliance purposes, while there are more and more cloud-based services handling a loads of data which require dramatically improved performance capabilities to ensure ... [Read More]