The ArcSight software draws security event data from other devices, correlates and analyses it. The company highlighted a new reporting feature that gives non-technical users information about security problems their networks are facing.
While security administrators can continue to see reports talking about ports and packets, they can also create CEO-friendly reports about, for example, their Sarbanes-Oxley compliance being imperiled by hackers.
ArcSight is also apparently taking an idea from the intrusion detection systems market, by adding a feature that allows the software to automatically reconfigure the Check Point or Cisco firewall to block a session or port when it has detected an attack.
VP of marketing and business development Larry Lunetta said that a new SmartStorage feature can reduce the costs of storing large quantities of historical event data by compressing it in archives.
Lunetta said that the company recently signed the Defense Information Systems Agency, part of the US Department of Defense, to its customer roster, and is already starting to see a lot of collateral business in related markets.
This article is based on material originally published by ComputerWire
