CrossTec Corp.

• Position: SECURITY SOFTWARE

CrossTec Corp. has released the latest version of its Security Center information management software. Activeworx Security Center version 3.0 offers information technology security managers a variety of new features, including a quicker and more reliable way to verify if a security event is a genuine system threat.

The Boca Raton, Fla.-based company says the new correlation engine in Activeworx 3.0 adds intelligent automation to the Activeworx Event Framework by using simple flow chart symbols to create complex rules that have the ability to correlate against existing data and additional events. When a suspect event is detected in one device's log file, the software takes action based on those rules to check other security information in the system, making sure that the event is a real threat. It also has the ability to group events with commonalities, such as those involved in "brute force" attacks--a method of defeating a cryptographic scheme by trying a large number of possibilities--into a single event with more in-depth information.

"This added intelligence saves information security personnel time, making it easier to determine if they need to take immediate action," says Jeff Richards, vice president of security sales at...