LogRhythm: Quickly Deployed, Fully Compliant

Company:

Headquarters: Boulder, Colo.

Technology Sector: Security

Key Product: LogRhythm 5.0

Year Founded: 2005

Number of Channel Partners: 50 to 75 in U.S.

Ideal Channel Partner: Managed Service Provider

Why You Should Care: LogRhythm is armed and ready for an anticipated uptick in log and event management services.

The Lowdown: LogRhythm takes complicated functions like security information and event management, brings them together and makes them easy.

"Our success in part is tied to the fact that we have integrated historically distinct functions in one integrated solution," said Mike Reagan, LogRhythm executive vice president of marketing and business solutions. "Customers are realizing those technologies need to be integrated to get the greatest value from those functions. We do that uniquely."

Targeting enterprise to midmarket companies, the Boulder, Colo.-based company's flagship product, LogRhythm 5.0, is a comprehensive SIEM offering, equipped with an array of functions including file integrity monitoring, endpoint monitoring and control, and log and event management -- all incorporated under one roof.

Executives say that the product touts out-of-the-box compliance packages for increasingly stringent regulatory mandates such as PCI, HIPAA and the federal Sarbanes-Oxley Act. It also contains the ability to integrate numerous compliance regulations into one comprehensive policy for companies that are required to adhere to multiple mandates, Reagan said.

"We try to make it as easy as possible for these entities to get it working and be in compliance upon installation," he said. "You're good to go and you're in compliance."

Anticipating an upsurge in demand for log management services in 2010, executives say they architected the product to be managed remotely, making it an attractive tool for managed service providers to add to their portfolio. Subsequently, LogRhythm 5.0 can be remotely managed as an appliance or via a software agent, depending on the customer's needs.

"Log management delivered as a service is still in the very early innings," Reagan said. "The client uptake on those services has not kept pace with the marketing of it. That's likely to change in 2010. As a core technology provider, we're going after that market."