Fast Deployment, Ease of Use Ensures Compliance Reporting for FISMA, HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, GLBA Ahead of Regulatory Deadlines; Anti-Virus Reporting Strengthens Enterprise Security Posture in New Era of Advanced Security Breaches

Acton, Mass. – April 6, 2005 – eIQnetworks™, Inc. (www.eIQnetworks.com), a pioneer of comprehensive security and systems management solutions for the enterprise, today announced the immediate availability of eIQ SystemAnalyzer version 3.2, a security- and compliance reporting-enhanced version of the industry’s most comprehensive and cost-effective real-time monitoring and centralized event management solution.

With the release of eIQ SystemAnalyzer 3.2, eIQnetworks has added new enhancements designed to significantly strengthen an organizations’ security and event management posture by providing network administrators with powerful new tools, such as anti-virus reporting, automated compliance reporting and integrated policy management. These new capabilities, integral to effective and comprehensive systems management, are enabling network administrators to automate network monitoring and alerting to identify and respond to suspicious activity, automate regulatory compliance report generation to meet GLBA, HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley and FISMA, as well as identifying Windows hosts with missing security patches and determining the needed patches, and prioritizing events based on business impact or criticality.

Automated compliance reporting is a particularly timely benefit, especially for any health-care related organization federally mandated to comply with stringent new HIPAA regulations.

“CIOs and CSOs are faced with increasingly daunting challenges to their enterprise infrastructure; not only are the threats to information security multiplying and accelerating, the costs for ensuring regulatory compliance while protecting their information assets are skyrocketing,” said Vijay Basani, chief executive officer of eIQnetworks. “Shoring up enterprise-wide infrastructure assets to ensure security and compliance, all while realizing optimal system performance, has become a mandate in a new era of advanced security breaches and regulatory scrutiny. eIQ SystemAnalyzer 3.2 has evolved significantly to provide our customers with a comprehensive and accessible solution to meet their enterprise-wide systems management requirements.”

Enhanced for a New Era of Security Breaches and Regulatory Scrutiny
eIQ SystemAnalyzer 3.2 adds a number of new features and capabilities that are geared to the realities facing the enterprise today; rapidly advancing and multiplying security threats and increasing regulatory scrutiny. Key features included in eIQ SystemAnalyzer 3.2 are:

• Policy Manager: eIQ SystemAnalyzer 3.2 now has a built-in Policy Manger. Users can define polices based on event, event type, event category, event id and host or groups of hosts.

• Compliance Reporting: Automated report generation to meet HIPPA, GLBA, Sarbanes-Oxley and FISMA regulatory requirements.

• Policy Driven Event Prioritization and Host Grouping: Group hosts for easier management and prioritize events based on business criticality.

• Auto Discovery of Hosts: eIQ SystemAnalyzer 3.2 automatically discovers Windows (NT, 2000, XP and 2003), UNIX and Linux hosts.

• Powerful Multi-Level Filters and Drill-Down: Multi-level filters at the pre-processing, post processing and query-levels enable customization and analysis. The drill-down feature allows administrators to quickly zero in on the necessary data.

• Instant Reports: Generate reports in real-time without having to wait for the processing of log files. Powerful drill-down feature displays second and third level details with a single click. Users can apply filters on reports.

• Anti-Virus Reporting: eIQ SystemAnalyzer now supports anti-virus solutions such as Symantec, Trend Micro and MacAfee for the desktop and server. This allows for detailed reporting of viruses within the environment.

• Advanced Role Based User Management: Use the built-in user management or choose to integrate user management with Windows Active Directory to control user access based on host, group or report category.

• Robust Data Analysis: Patented FScale™ data management architecture allows for collection and management of data from 100s of heterogeneous systems.