June 15, 2011 - Industrial Defender announced enhancements to Security Event Manager and Compliance Manager software.
Security Event Manager provides real-time security and health activity monitoring across automation systems, networks and applications. Enhancements to the technology reduce manual requirements by automating key functions – delivering more efficient security management and increasing security.
- Security event filters: Filtering enables customers to identify security events that present the greatest concern.
- Agent management: New centralized, remote agent management reduce management requirements.
Industrial Defender has eased the management of filters and associated filter policies.
Centralized event data collection through a single embedded agent increases security by eliminating two-way communication.
Compliance Manager provides automated collection, analysis and reporting to support both immediate and future audit requirements.
New capabilities help customers to better understand changes across their environment which might impact regulatory compliance (e.g., NERC CIP, CFATS) and adherence to corporate technology standards (e.g., configurations, changes and patches).
- Baseline customization: Baselines provide a snapshot of normal activity across automation environments in order to identify potential threats to security, compliance or operational health.
- Baseline management: Customers now have greater ability to manage versions to demonstrate compliance over the long-run.
Enhancements provide customers the flexibility to customize baselines based on business requirements.
In addition, new workflow capabilities help ensure clear separation of duties and control over changes to the accepted baseline.
