Acton, Mass. – November 1, 2005 – eIQnetworks™, Inc. (www.eIQnetworks.com), a global provider of comprehensive Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions for the enterprise, today announced that REAL Solutions Ltd, a leading managed security services provider (MSSP) serving the UK and Europe, has become the newest member of eIQnetwork’s “eIQ Advantage MSSP Partner Program.” As a result of its new partnership status, REAL Solutions Ltd will begin deploying powerful, comprehensive Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) services built on eIQnetwork’s Enterprise Security Analyzer (ESA).

ESA is built on a distributed enterprise class architecture that effectively scales to thousands of networked devices and hosts, and supports both a stand-alone deployment for smaller networks and a distributed deployment for large enterprise installations. REAL Solutions Ltd is delivering managed security services based on ESA’s advanced SIEM capabilities to its investment bank, credit card, health care and manufacturing facility customers throughout the UK and Europe.

“eIQnetworks is so far ahead of the security operations management curve with Enterprise Security Analyzer that it was critical we form a tight partnership to elevate the services we provide our customers,” said Edward Blake, head of E-Security for REAL Solutions Ltd. “Our customers are some of the largest financial and health care institutions throughout Europe; therefore it’s mandatory that we provide a powerful central reporting platform, flawless log management and the ability to effortlessly support a broad range of heterogeneous hosts and networked security devices across our customers’ massive network infrastructure. And that’s exactly what eIQ’s Enterprise Security Analyzer does for REAL Solutions Ltd and our customers.”

“REAL Solutions Ltd personifies the broad spectrum of requirements for effective security operations management. Their customers demand they have complete, comprehensive security operations management with zero compromise,” added Vijay Basani, chief executive officer of eIQnetworks. “Enterprise Security Analyzer exceeds their requirements on all levels; from monitoring and correlated alerting, extensive reporting, topology and threat visualization, log management, forensic analysis and performance / asset management, we’re providing REAL Solutions Ltd with a Security Operations Management platform to help their customers instantly grasp their security posture across the entire enterprise.”

Enterprise Security Analyzer: Delivers essential ‘Security Intelligence Layer’
With ESA enterprise customers, outsourced security services providers and MSSPs can seamlessly build a comprehensive security intelligence layers across large networked environments to get a clear and precise understanding of their overall IT security posture. ESA introduces a portfolio of advanced security intelligence capabilities, including:

• Security Topology and Threat Visualization: Comprehensive security topology visualization provides immediate insight into overall IT security posture by mapping security events & threats on a network topology;

• Real-time Heterogeneous Monitoring: Monitors security event data across the entire network of security devices and hosts in real-time allowing for corrective action before it becomes a system wide problem;

• Correlated Alerting: Template-driven alert correlation allows creation and definition of any number of rules and alerts to reduce false positives, identify blended attacks and security breaches or identify patterns and anomalies;

• Monitoring and Reporting Portals: Out-of-the-box monitoring and reporting portals allow MSSPs give access to customers based on their role or SLA:

• Vulnerability Reporting: MSSPs can deliver periodic vulnerability reports to their customers;

• Forensics and Investigative Analysis: Provides the ability search through hundreds of gigabytes of archived and current log data to find root cause of security breaches and intrusions.
  

About REAL Solutions Ltd
REAL Solutions Ltd provides secure infrastructure solutions and services across a wide range of "Best of Breed" Security Applications, Managed Services, IBM eServer Platforms, Web Applications, Firewalls, Anti-Virus, Encryption, Communications, SANs, Virtual Private Networks and e-business environments for a stable infrastructure to ensure that our clients information is kept as secure as possible. We regularly run Ethical Hacking workshops hosted by CISSP certified consultants at our advanced solution centers based in Chessington and Altrincham as well as a number of Secure Infrastructure testing services.

About eIQnetworks
Founded in 2001, eIQnetworks is an award-winning provider of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions. eIQnetworks delivers the industry’s most comprehensive and cost-effective solutions for security professionals who require real-time security intelligence for identifying, understanding and pre-empting hacker and virus behavior and security threats, all while meeting stringent federal compliance requirements. The Company’s products are used in more than 50 countries around the world and are currently deployed in over 1000 companies and government agencies, including Hess, Sprint, Avaya, TrendMicro, NetGear, VanguardMS, British Telecom, Malaysia Telecom, Fujitsu, RKON, NEXUM, Boston.com, FCC, US Army, US Navy, Wachovia, Citibank, HP, ADP, Bertelsmann, UBS, KPMG and many more. eIQnetworks’ solutions are available worldwide through an extensive, global distributor network. For additional information, visit www.eIQnetworks.com or call 1-877-LOGS R US.

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