HP Expands Security Offerings

By Amber Ankerholz

New tools provide risk management and security testing.

HP has added new products and services to its Enterprise Security Solutions portfolio, which, according to the company, is designed to “help enterprises establish and execute a comprehensive security strategy to address threats and potential liabilities resulting from mobility, cloud computing and social media.”
HP’s new security-related offerings include the following:

Security Intelligence and Risk Management platform – offers advanced correlation, application protection, and network defense technology to protect applications and IT infrastructures from sophisticated cyberthreats.
ArcSight Express 3.0 – delivers market-leading correlation, log management, and user-activity monitoring to improve an organization’s ability to rapidly detect and prevent cyberthreats. It is the first Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) product powered by the breakthrough Correlation Optimized Retention and Retrieval Engine (CORR-Engine).
Reputation Security Monitor – provides HP ArcSight clients with an advanced, real-time list of known bad IP and DNS addresses to combat attacks that exploit web application vulnerabilities.
Fortify Software Security Center suite – a comprehensive application security testing solution that scales to identify vulnerabilities in thousands of applications.
TippingPoint Web Application Digital Vaccine 2.0 – extends protection to commercial and custom-built online applications with real-time identification of vulnerabilities in web applications and delivery of virtual patches until a fix can be developed.

09/13/2012