CA rolls out Security Command Center

Targeting customers overburdened with managing vulnerabilities and buried under security information overload from multiple security devices, Computer Associates on Tuesday rolled out its eTrust Security Command Center at its CA World user conference in Las Vegas.

The software maker announced that eTrust Security Command Center, which aggregates and prioritizes security events across an enterprise, is tightly coupled with eTrust Vulnerability Manager. Fueled by a knowledge base of 6,000 vulnerabilities, the new rack-mountable Intel appliance also made its debut at CA World on Tuesday.

Security Command Center allows users to tie together CA’s entire Identity Management, Access Manager, and Threat Management family of eTrust products along with third-party security products, according to Russ Artzt, executive vice president and co-founder of Islandia, N.Y.-based CA.

The Web-based tool features a portal interface and live Web services feed to provide customers with newly discovered viruses and security alerts. The role-based access product can graphically summarize the status of an enterprise’s security environment by device, geographical site, or isolated event.

In addition, integration with eTrust Vulnerability Manager offers an on-demand view of a security event’s description, its IP addresses, which machines are affected, and where the appropriate remediation exists.

Still kicking the tires on eSecurity Command Center, CA customer David Rowley, chief technical architect at Berkshire, England-based Fujitsu Services, said the product should allow his IT infrastructure management company to monitor its state of security with only one or two people.

“It’s impossible to respond to [security] logs in real time if you look at them by hand and eye. [eTrust Security Command Center] is going to give us the capability to respond to events as they happen,” said Rowley at CA World. “It’s fundamental to this product that we can bundle [third-party security products] together into a single source.”

eTrust Security Command Center features support for C Cure, CP, Cisco, Foundstone, IBM, McAfee AV, Microsoft File Replication Log, Microsoft IIS W3C, Microsoft NT Event Log, Netsus, Netscreen, Nortel Contivity, Snort, Symantec Anti-Virus, and Trend Micro Anti-Virus.