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NEWS 2005

[10/24/2005]

SenSage Bolsters Security Problem Determination For Autonomic Computing Environments

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SenSage's Enterprise Security Analytics Software now supports the Common Base Event format from the IBM Autonomic Computing Toolkit

SAN FRANCISCO, CA. - October 24, 2005 - SenSage, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise security analytics, today introduced support for autonomic computing technology from IBM.

Effective immediately, SenSage 3.5 security analytics software includes self-managing autonomic technology from the IBM Autonomic Computing Toolkit, which allows users to quickly monitor and aggregate system-activity events. SenSage 3.5 supports the Common Base Event format, an open industry XML standard that allows SenSage 3.5 to communicate with other applications that support the standard.

SenSage can now process and store native Common Base Event data, as well as transform any data in SenSage to Common Base Event format which can be consumed by the Autonomic Computing Toolkit for analysis and problem determination. Users will benefit from SenSage's event log data management and event retention capacity for multiple data sources.

"Today, many organizations are using SenSage's event log data management capabilities to address security and compliance needs," said Frank Bien, SenSage vice president of business development. "Now, by embedding self-managing autonomic technology, customers can capture all event data, store it cost-effectively and for extended periods of time, and have it available in Common Base Event format to support efficient problem determination."

"IBM is committed to working with companies like SenSage to incorporate self-managing autonomic technology from the IBM Autonomic Computing Toolkit into their products," said Dave Bartlett, vice president of Autonomic Computing for IBM. "It's an important objective to simplify security-related problem determination, so we're pleased SenSage has incorporated the Common Base Event format to benefit our joint customers."

Problems Account for Large Proportion of Resources

According to an IBM white paper, medium and large company IT groups spend as much as 70 percent of their resources dealing with system problems, many of which are security related. Yankee Group estimates that banks can lose as much as $2.6 million per hour and brokerages as much as $4.5 million per hour, from system downtime. Other studies indicate that companies spend as much as one half of their total costs of ownership recovering from, or preparing against, system failure.

In order to fix problems efficiently, organization must gather and analyze all event data. SenSage's system is designed to gather all system-activity data at the rate it is produced, store it in cost-effective compressed form, and decompress it quickly to support deep and wide analysis. SenSage will consume native Common Base Event logs and transform data stored in its repository into Common Base Event format. In this manner, the stored data meets stringent compliance requirements while supporting efficient problem determination.

SenSage committed to Common Event Infrastructure

SenSage also announced today its commitment to support the IBM Tivoli Common Event Infrastructure (CEI). CEI is the IBM approach to a consistent, unified format for the creation, transmission, persistence, and distribution of a wide range of business, system and network events. In combination with SenSage systems, CEI will be complemented by high-performance event-log capture, huge event-log capacity, extensive retention, and analysis-ready Common Base Event logs.

About SenSage

SenSage, Inc., www.sensage.com, offers the only patented event data warehousing solution for log management and compliance auditing applications. Over 200 customers have deployed SenSage solutions to reduce the risks associated with insider threats, system downtime and failed audits by providing faster, more granular analysis of privileged user behavior and analyzing anomalies across network, system and application activity. Based in San Francisco, the company markets its solutions directly and through partners, including Cerner, EMC, HP, IBM, Intec Billing Systems, Lockheed Martin, Network Appliance, Sendmail, Symantec and Tokyo Electron.

For more information, please visit www.sensage.com.

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Media Contacts

Samantha Singh
The Hoffman Agency for SenSage, Inc.
(408) 975-3087
ssingh@hoffman.com
Ed Chopskie, VP of corporate marketing
SenSage, Inc.
Tel: +1.415.808.5903
ed.chopskie@sensage.com