ACTON, Mass. – October 30, 2007  – eIQnetworks^®, Inc., a global provider of integrated security, risk and audit management solutions, today announced the immediate availability of the next evolution of its flagship SecureVue® solution. SecureVue 3.0 adds governance, risk and compliance (GRC) audit management, network behavior anomaly detection (NBAD) and 3-D visualization to its existing next-generation security information management (SIM) solution, providing enterprises with an integrated security, risk and audit platform to radically simplify IT assurance.

“As IT and business operations teams become more skilled at identifying, analyzing and remediating security issues, they will take on more and more security responsibilities,” wrote Paul Stamp, principal analyst at Forrester in his recent report, Security Information Management Market Forecast, 2007 To 2011. “Thus, it will become commonplace for information security teams to be more interested in setting and overseeing policy than with the specifics of its implementation. SIM will be the primary tool for enabling operations teams and security teams to collaborate on: turning business policy into specific configurations and requirements; assessing the risk of ongoing security issues; and coordinating the response to security incidents.”

Historically, enterprises have managed audit and security functions with multiple point products. The latest version of SecureVue provides an advanced framework that combines GRC audit management with next-generation SIM to help organizations strategically address evolving security and compliance challenges and improve operational efficiencies. By using eIQ’s integrated security, risk and audit platform, enterprises are able to realize significant business benefits, including:

• Reduced management complexity and cost;

• Increased collaboration between NOC, SOC and compliance teams;

• Faster identification and remediation of hard-to-detect security incidents; and

• Improved enterprise-wide security, policy and compliance management, with support for COBIT, ISO 17799, ISO 27000, NIST 800-53, CA 1386, FISMA, GLBA, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, SOX and more.

“Meeting regulatory mandates and conforming to industry best practices prove challenging for all organizations subject to security and compliance audits,” said Ernest Quaglieri, chief information security officer at The State of Rhode Island. “Disparate point solutions create inefficiencies between network, security and operations teams. An integrated platform like SecureVue enables The State of Rhode Island to foster inter-departmental collaboration.”

SecureVue GRC Audit Management
Unlike other GRC solutions that rely on third-party data sources, SecureVue integrates GRC functionality with next-generation SIM to provide enterprise-wide visibility and support for specific regulations, best practices, internal policies and controls. Leveraging a comprehensive library of more than 5,000 control objectives, SecureVue helps define, monitor and measure overall compliance via:

• Knowledge Base Packs: streamline best practice and regulatory implementation by mapping requirements to specific IT controls;

• Executive Dashboards: display current and historical regulation, best practice, control and policy trends;

• Wizard-based Mapping: accelerates creation, approval and maintenance of evolving internal and external requirements;

• Extensive Drilldown: quickly identifies the why, when, where and how of policy and audit violations and provides information required to achieve compliance; and

• Audit Reports: present all relevant data to show compliancy to specific requirements.

SecureVue’s GRC audit module is built on a fully extensible architecture, enabling organizations to easily establish internal policies, tailor business requirements and add additional regulations and best practices.

3-D Visualization and NBAD
The SecureVue next-generation SIM module, which extends traditional SIM by correlating log, vulnerability, configuration, asset, performance and flow data across the enterprise, has also been enhanced to add

• 3-D Visualization: supports millions of nodes and displays log data, security incidents, access control list effectiveness, profiler data, traffic patterns, node-specific traffic patterns and forensics detail in an easy-to-understand graphical view;

• NBAD: profiles all NetFlow, C-Flow, S-Flow and J-Flow data to identify and alert on anomalies based on resource utilization, application usage and behavioral patterns; and

• Universal Parser: collects and analyzes syslog data from virtually any network device, system or application via an easy-to-use interface.

“IT risk is no longer just about security – it involves multiple, critical business areas including compliance, policy and audit management,” said Vijay Basani, CEO at eIQnetworks. “With a unified platform that spans NOC, SOC and compliance functions, SecureVue empowers enterprises to strategically move toward a more effective and streamlined IT security, risk and audit management process.”

SecureVue has been deployed by numerous Global 2000 organizations in the banking, financial, government, healthcare, managed security service provider, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, publishing, retail and telecommunications markets.

Pricing and Delivery
SecureVue 3.0 is available now on both Linux and Windows platforms via eIQnetworks’ direct sales team. Base packages start at $47,995. For more information on SecureVue, please visit  www.eIQnetworks.com/products/SecureVue.shtml.

About eIQnetworks
eIQnetworks, Inc., a global provider of integrated security, risk and audit management solutions, enables enterprise, government and MSSP customers to simplify IT assurance by improving collaboration between network, security and compliance teams. More than 2,500 organizations worldwide rely on the power of eIQ’s next-generation security information management (SIM) and governance, risk and compliance (GRC) technology to proactively detect security breaches, speed incident remediation and support evolving best practices and compliance regulations across the enterprise. eIQ customers include Avaya, BT, Casio, Celgene, Fujitsu, Hess, Malaysia Telecom, The New York Times, Nuspire, Rackspace, Singapore Telecom and Sprint. eIQ solutions are sold both direct and through a global network of distributors, resellers and strategic OEM partners, which include Astaro, CITTIO, Clavister, H3C (3COM), Intoto, iPolicy Networks, Mirapoint, NEC, PioLink, Reflex Security, Secure Computing and Top Layer Networks. For additional information, please visit www.eIQnetworks.com or call +1 877.564.7787.