StillSecure Updates Its Product Suites

Enterprise security vendor StillSecure made several announcements this week around intrusion prevention and detection, endpoint security and vulnerability management as it tries to position itself as a comprehensive alternative to larger and more established security companies.

The company announced StillSecure Border Guard v4.5, an intrusion-detection/prevention (IDS/IPS) solution; Safe Access v3.5, an endpoint policy compliance solution; and VAM v5.3, the latest version of StillSecure's vulnerability-management platform. All three products will ship in July, with Safe Access slated to be the first to market.

StillSecure CTO Mitchell Ashley says the company's range of solutions gives it the channel appeal that other smaller security vendors may lack.

"Because we offer a suite of products, we're very attractive to the channel," he says. "We're not just a one-trick pony."

He says the latest tools were designed to wring more efficiency out of the security process.

"These days, organizations are being asked to do more with the same number of people," Ashley says. "We enable users to leverage their data between products and direct their resources to the heart of the problem. It's a great opportunity for VARs because they can bring IT-integration services to the customers and help them tie into third-party products."

Border Guard v4.5 is designed to help large enterprises and managed security services providers (MSSPs) simplify the administration of multiple Border Guard installations, providing organizations with more control over access to data. MSSPs can centrally manage each Border Guard node, separate attack data by customer and consolidate multinode reporting through user groups, and enterprises can create divisional and hierarchical user groups to segment access to data and reports.

Security resellers say the simplified management capabilities are a welcome feature of the StillSecure lineup.

"StillSecure has been very diligent about having their solutions run on a common GUI interface," says Don Wisdom, president of Datalink Networks, a systems integrator in Valencia, Calif. "They're not just simplifying things; they're also providing strong functionality under one common interface."

Datalink partners with other security vendors as well, but Wisdom says StillSecure seems to have the legs to survive the ongoing consolidation activity in the sector.

"We have multivendor solutions, but the industry will eventually consolidate around certain vendors and products, and we think StillSecure will be there when it's all said and done," he says.

Safe Access v3.5 features the Safe Access Enterprise Integration Framework (EIF), an open architecture for programmatic access to the features and information in Safe Access. Safe Access EIF allows third-party solutions to control key Safe Access functions, such as testing and quarantining, and the import and export of data to and from Safe Access, allowing users to more effectively enforce endpoint policy compliance. Other third-party integrations include network management, trouble ticketing, vulnerability management and security information managers (SIMs).

Finally, VAM v5.3 features VAM Security POV (Point of View), an optional security-management analysis module; and the Extensible Security Plug-In Architecture (ESPA), which allows enterprises to customize the VAM workflow. The latest version provides faster remediation and enables users to more easily disseminate information across the organization.