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SenSage Opens SIEM Data To Business Intelligence Tools: Page 2 of 2

Security information and event management (SIEM) vendor SenSage has opened up its data to third-party business intelligence (BI) tools and dashboards, enabling organizations to leverage security data with business data analytics and create highly customized reports. The latest release (version 4.6) supports Open Database Connectivity/Java Database Connectivity (ODBC/JDBC) APIs, allowing integration of SenSage's data warehouse with BI products through SQL queries and/or the BI tools' more user-fr
February 04, 2011

Bringing security data into business intelligence should enable enterprises to bring more granular context to security analysis to better assess risk based on the potential business impact of a threat.

The 4.6 release also provides:

  • Expanded interoperability through industry APIs, with the ability to accept alerts from third-party products like IBM Tivoli and HP OpenView, leveraging open APIs such as SNMP as well as proprietary APIs such as Check Point LEA;
  • An updated analytics installer and log adapters with new views and source-specific reports;
  • Database storage for reporting history;
  • The ability to audit security administrator changes;
  • Improved SNMP Sender and Retriever, which acts as a bridge and can put all data onto a syslog stream; and
  • Support for RedHat 5.5

"This is an indication that the SIEM space is maturing," says Hay. "We can push a SIEM-style or LM product to the operational and hands-on security people and present them with this high level abstraction layer for business-focused risk and compliance."

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