Security information management vendor netForensics will make available two stand-alone products designed to help network managers monitor Web and database applications and more efficiently collect log data for compliance and auditing purposes.

NetForensics, maker of the nFX Open Security Platform (OSP) due to be upgraded this fall, will introduce two products this week that the company says can work independently of its enterprise platform to deliver security and management information. The two applications, nFX Data One and nFX Log One, work independently of OSP (but also are integrated with the platform) to monitor Web and database applications and gather management logs from distributed devices, respectively.

nFX Data One sits on the network pipe going into a database or application server and inspects packets to extract information or content that goes against predefined policies, the company says.

"Customers need to tie perimeter-based security information into data information to better protect themselves from insider threat and application-layer attacks," says Tracy Hulver, vice president of marketing and product management at netForensics.

Data One can identify suspicious patterns in traffic and perform "inside threat forensics" on the data to determine if the anomalous behavior is a risk or out of compliance with policies. The product, available as software-only or packaged as an appliance, is priced at $5,500 for the software and costs another $8,000 for the appliance version.

Meanwhile, netForensics’ log data management tool is designed to help customers more easily collect, consolidate and store enterprise security and systems log data. The tool, nFX Log One, gathers data from syslog servers and devices, looking for information the operator has earmarked as important. The product then digitally signs and archives the data, which provides a complete trail for audit or forensics work in the future, the company says.

"Log One is targeted at companies that need log analysis capabilities that might not want to roll out a full-blown security threat analysis system," Hulver says.

Pricing for nFX Log One starts at $1,900 for the software-only version. Customers looking for the software packaged as an appliance would be charged another $8,000.