Cyberoam, a vendor of identity-based UTM appliances, has launched iView, an open source logging and reporting product. iView delivers centralised identity-based logging and reporting of multiple devices across geographical locations, enabling organisations to meet their security management and regulatory compliance requirements.
In addition, organisations receive the benefit of flexibility and speed of development which the open source community brings to them, allowing them to gain visibility into the entire network activity without having to make large capital outlays, claimed the company.
Cyberoam said iView will initially enable organisations to derive logs and reports of open source products like the Linux Iptables/netfilter Firewall, the open source HTTP proxy Squid and other commercial UTM firewall offerings also. With the involvement of the open source community, it aims to add more such widely used network devices, servers, databases and operating systems rapidly. The product offers archiving and meets the legal and investigative requirements of forensics.
Abhilash Sonwane, vice-president of product management at Cyberoam, said: “The internal user is the key factor in an organisation’s security which is why Cyberoam is the only solution that has always given visibility into ‘Who is doing What’ in the network.
“With the rise in insider threats and the consequent rise in security breaches and regulatory compliance requirements, we saw a broader need for user-centric reporting beyond Cyberoam’s own UTM security. Hence, we decided to bring our experience in identity-based Reporting to meet organisations’ requirement for logging-reporting from multiple devices and applications with reduced complexity.”
The development community and organisations are free to download Cyberoam iView from sourceforge.net. Available as open source, the product reportedly has a ready list of projects which would help organisations, particularly small and medium enterprises in bringing logging-reporting over multiple devices and locations over a single, consolidated, centralised interface, helping them meet the requirements of regulatory compliance.
