PRESS RELEASE
PerformanceIT Announces the Release of its ProIT Enterprise Security Management Suite.
ATLANTA, April 7, 2003 – PerformanceIT has announced the successful commercial launch of its new ProIT Enterprise Security Management (ESM) suite, which includes the ProIT Intrusion Detection System (IDS). PerformanceIT's Enterprise Security Management (ESM) suite is an integrated security and network management platform designed specifically for small and mid-size businesses. Most of these firms average upwards of 5,000 attempted network attacks per day, which until now has required multiple security products to achieve proper protection. ProIT's ESM suite is designed to manage this large volume of threats aimed at small and mid-size enterprises, while also handling the daily volume of "ordinary" problems associated with their IT network.
"We are continuing a strong emphasis on innovation with our award-winning ProIT platform," said Fereydoun Taslimi, PerformanceIT's Chief Technology Officer. "As we listened to our current and prospective customers, it was very clear that they don't want to pursue "point solutions" for each IT challenge they face. An integrated solution with an easy-to-use web-based interface is what they want and need." Taslimi continued, "Because we designed the ProIT platform to be highly flexible, we were able to develop and integrate a robust Enterprise Security Management suite. ESM combines ProIT's firewall, server, and device event log monitoring, host intrusion detection, and the new ProIT IDS appliance for network-based intrusion detection and prevention. With the addition of ProIT IDS, ProIT has more to offer than ever before."
The features incorporated into ProIT's EMS suite include: Intrusion Detection System (IDS) appliance - adds perimeter network-base proactive security analysis. Each threat shows the source IP address (attacker), destination address (target system), description, and the number of attacks detected. For each threat, a link is provided to the appropriate security web site for remediation procedures and tactics. Host-Based IDS - host-based intrusion detects whether unwanted people have accessed a firm's servers, devices, and corporate information by monitoring the devices themselves, not the network traffic flowing into or out of the network. ProIT proactively detects failed login attempts and access to forbidden resources and provide alerts in real-time. Configuration Control - ProIT includes complete auto-discovery, asset tracking, and configuration management, so the configurations of servers and network devices are stored in the ProIT database. ProIT then performs scheduled auto-discoveries and alerts the security administrator to changes in configurations of all monitored devices.
"Our customers can't afford to go down the 'YAC-YAM' path," said PerformanceIT's President, Michael Mittel. "They don't need 'Yet-Another-Console-Yet-Another-Monitor." Small and mid-size businesses simply don?t have the luxury of extra resources or time to install, learn, and manage multiple consoles for security and their network. With finite IT resources, firms in our target market need a consolidated view - a simplified way to automate and manage their IT infrastructure along with their network security. That's why we developed ESM."
About PerformanceIT
PerformanceIT,
Inc. provides business value through software and professional services that
optimize productivity and reduce costs of ITinfrastructures for midsize companies.
Selected to receive the 2003 Best Mid Market Solution award by 220 senior
IT executives in attendance at the Midsize Enterprise Summit, PerformanceIT
develops the industry's only mid-market integrated IT software for managing
networks, systems, and applications. The company's ProIT software platform
manages all system resources from a single place, eliminating the need for
multiple, expensive-to-maintain software packages and providing a web-enabled,
total enterprise view for monitoring, asset tracking, security management,
reporting, trouble ticketing, diagnostics and repair. For more information
about PerformanceIT, please contact the corporate offices at 678-323-1300.
You may also visit PerformanceIT on the World Wide Web at http://www.performanceIT.com.
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