Re: Queensland Univerity of Technology investigation into SIM/SEM technology

[George <george.russ () CITADEL EDU>]

I would suggest you to include 3com Tipping Point Unity IPS
Their support is great and the product is first class.

George

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-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Vickers [mailto:g.vickers () QUT EDU AU]
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 11:41 PM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: [SECURITY] Queensland Univerity of Technology investigation into
SIM/SEM technology

Hi all,

I've just joined the list, my manager forwarded me the thread started by
Ryan Rose on SIM appliances. The other project manager and I have just
spent six months going through 20 responses from the SEM sector of the
IT industry!

Here is a list of companies we entertained products from:
Computer Associates
IBM
Checkpoint
CISCO
ISS
eIQ Networks
LogLogic
Network Intelligence
Tenable
ArcSight
OpenService
Symantec
netForensics
eSecurity
Micromuse
NetIQ
Tier-3
SenSage
Intellitactics

(Yes, we had two responses from different vendors for the same product.
It was an interesting insight...)

We found that there were distinct generations of product and levels of
alignment with business structure (very important for our investigation.)

We are going ahead with a trial period in Q1 2006 of four of the above
products, setting each product up on a test server and sending a reduced
log stream to that server.

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Greg Vickers
Project Manager, IT Security
Information Technology Services
Queensland University of Technology
L12, 126 Margaret St, Brisbane

Phone: (07) 3864 9536
Mobile: 0410 434 734
Email: g.vickers () qut edu au
IT Security web site: http://www.its.qut.edu.au/itsecurity/

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