CA builds, buys security management technology

Industry analysis by Beth Schultz, plus the latest news headlines.

CA will share with RSA attendees its security product plans that include a new enterprise log management application and two updated releases the software maker gained via acquisitions.

Slideshow: Products shown at the RSA Conference

CA will introduce its Enterprise Log Manager software at the security conference. CA developed the software in-house to help IT managers collect log data from security systems and other devices such as firewalls, operating systems and applications. The log data is aggregated, correlated and used to deliver reports on compliance and security risk information, CA says.

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CA will share with RSA attendees its security product plans that include a new enterprise log management application and two updated releases the software maker gained via acquisitions.

Slideshow: Products shown at the RSA Conference

CA will introduce its Enterprise Log Manager software at the security conference. CA developed the software in-house to help IT managers collect log data from security systems and other devices such as firewalls, operating systems and applications. The log data is aggregated, correlated and used to deliver reports on compliance and security risk information, CA says.

"This product helps customers prove adherence to policies, regulations and more in relation to compliance," says Lina Liberti, vice president of CA Security product marketing. "It enables IT to collect, manage and archive data from a variety of systems and helps them demonstrate they are meeting security standards and compliance requirements."

The software installs on a server and customers choose if they need to distribute agents, depending on what devices they want to collect information from. Available now, CA Enterprise Log Manager pricing starts at $120 per device that is sourcing logs. Optional Enterprise Log Manager agents are available for an additional fee.

Also at RSA, CA will spotlight how it has incorporated acquired technologies into its security software portfolio. CA Role & Compliance Manager is the continued development of Eurekify's role-based access management technology, which CA acquired with the company in November 2008. The addition of Eurekify's automation in CA's identity management arsenal will help customers reduce costs and improve outdated processes around identities to meet current compliance and security requirements, industry watchers said at the time of the acquisition.

For an average deal of 10,000 users, CA Role & Compliance Manager costs about $36 per internal user, with discounts per user based on volume. The software is expected to be generally available this quarter.

And CA will also reveal its plans around data leak prevention technology, which came to CA by way of its Orchestria acquisition earlier this year. The company is applying its own take on data leak prevention with CA DLP, Liberti explains.

"We are putting a twist on the technology. We are able to leverage the identity as well as the actions adhering to security policies," she says. "There is a lot of information that you want to restrict the movement of and we can make sure that information is not being sent to the wrong places and tie it back to identity management."

Available now, CA DLP is priced based on the number of users in the enterprise, with deployments starting as low as $100,000.

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