SenSage Customers Embrace Benefits From Latest Purpose-Built Data Warehouse for Event...

SenSage Customers Embrace Benefits From Latest Purpose-Built Data Warehouse
for Event Data

Majority Upgrade to Latest Version to Reduce Security, Compliance and
Operations Risks at a Fraction of Traditional Data Warehouse and Log
Management Costs

SAN FRANCISCO, May 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Enterprise software leader SenSage, Inc.
reports that more than half of its 400 enterprise customers are adopting the
latest version of its event data warehouse offerings to address emerging
security threats, compliance mandates, and a host of risk management
initiatives at a fraction of the cost of traditional data warehouse and log
management offerings.

By updating their SenSage software, customers benefit from a new graphical
user interface that makes it more intuitive for business analysts and
executive users to create new business-specific rules, generate reports and
analyze event data efficiently. In addition, SenSage now provides an even more
powerful real-time engine as well, making the process of gleaning actionable
intelligence from the reams of event data even faster and more cost-effective.
Because these new features can dramatically increase productivity, SenSage
customers are embracing the new event data warehouse technology.

Andrew Peterson, division chief, Security Management Division of the U.S.
Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Information & Technology for Region
1, said, "Given the sheer volume of data and the breadth of different sources,
event data analysis presents a daunting challenge. Implementing SenSage
enabled us to meet or exceed all expectations of federal regulatory
requirements by centralizing security event logs and analyzing for threats in
real time. The analytic capabilities are powerful, and the ability to maintain
all data on-line, coupled with the new user interface, has reduced the time
and resources needed to conduct investigations."

For many organizations, event data is their fastest growing data type and,
often, their single largest data store. Even for small firms, it is common to
generate over a terabyte of event data each day. Event data includes
information such as network, security and database logs, physical access
systems, enterprise applications, bank transactions, telecommunications call
records, Internet traffic detail and manufacturing sensor data.

"With SenSage, my team at Magellan has been able to enhance our current
logging and monitoring strategy with additional components that will allow us
to move from a reactive environment to an enhanced proactive environment,"
said Nicholas LoPresti, director of Information Security Services at Magellan.
"SenSage continues to stay in touch with the market and evolve their products
to meet our changing needs."

Many corporations depend on the latest SenSage technology to meet evolving
compliance requirements from industry and government regulations like the
Payment Card Industry (PCI) standard and the Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act (HIPAA). For example, the $787 billion stimulus bill passed
earlier this year includes new HIPAA requirements for protecting Electronic
Protected Health Information (ePHI).

"Premier has one of the largest ePHI databases in the world and security and
compliance are extremely important," said Jean Wilson, Corporate Information
Security manager of Premier, Inc. "The latest version of SenSage 4 is
intuitive and very flexible. The latest real-time functionality will also
easily allow us to detect out-of-policy events immediately."

With SenSage purpose-built solutions, customers are able to easily capture,
retain and query years of data from multiple sources at any detail level to
support their business requirements. Suspicious or risky network activity,
from outside or inside sources, is visible, customer information is
safeguarded and out-of-the-box reports pass the scrutiny of internal auditors.

"Attempts to use traditional data management systems to manage event data
often lead to dramatically higher costs and complexity," said Jim Pflaging,
president and CEO of SenSage. "SenSage knows from customer feedback that a
single enterprise data warehouse approach for managing event data is too
expensive and time consuming, while legacy log management systems are ill
equipped to handle event data. Our approach provides customers with an easy to
implement and use offering that delivers true business intelligence, rapid
delivery and scale to meet their targeted needs for security, compliance and
operational risk management."

About SenSage
SenSage, Inc. offers patented event data warehouse solutions that provide
actionable results from massive amounts of log and event data. More than 400
customers have deployed SenSage solutions to reduce security, fraud and
compliance risks at a fraction of the cost of traditional data warehouses and
log management solutions. Based in San Francisco, the company markets its
solutions directly and through partners, including Cerner, EMC, HP, Hitachi
Data Systems, McAfee, Tokyo Electron Device and many others. Visit
www.SenSage.com for more information.

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