Applied Watch & Savoir-faire Linux
The partnership to protect your organization.
Intrusion Detection System (IDS) for network security
Savoir-faire Linux has signed an exclusivity agreement for Canada with the American company Applied Watch, leader in Open Source intrusion detection in the United States. As new partners, the two companies rely on the complementarity of their respective offer and an expertise recognized worldwide.
While the industry, large enterprises and public administrations are exposed to serious network security deficiencies, as is stressed in the 2005 official report of the Auditor General of Canada, Sheila Fraser, Savoir-faire Linux and Applied-Watch announce a high security partnership based on IDS (Intrusion Detection System) supply.
The Intrusion Detection System's function is to make real-time analysis of network traffic and react immediately to intrusion attempts or eventual attacks.
These "spying" probes are build from extremely sophisticated technologies since they must monitor several billion information units per second.
A single probe can therefore scan the communications between several hundred, even thousand interconnected computers. Once the information has been collected, it must be treated, analyzed and submitted to a real time decision.
In contrast with anti-virus or anti-spam technologies which merely search for signatures, a malicious program's "genetic code", Intrusion detection techniques are much subtler and necessitate elaborate protections deployment.
Applied Watch solutions disclose network incidents correlations revealing attacks that are especially difficult to detect since they come from diversified and seemingly trivial sources.
Developed from Open Source components (namely Snort), Applied Watch solutions provide an extremely powerful system, that, because it emerges from the open software community, benefits from the high responsiveness of the Internet community in security matters, thereby providing the organization the means to control and steadily keep its security infrastructure up to date.
When used separately, these components can be difficult to manage. This is why Applied Watch solutions offer an integrated centralized command center for a team of experts to have a real-time view on their network.
With this center it is possible to update and control hundreds of geographically dispersed probes and hence respond to massive concerted attacks.
More than a system tool, Applied Watch/Savoir-faire Linux partnership is in itself a responsiveness tool. Indeed, having the best tools is not all, the expertise to efficiently deploy them is crucial: traps are numerous and hacking and attack techniques evolve rapidly. Wireless access point multiplication and cell phones high speed Internet access can be cited in example.
It is imperative to understand what is at stake: anyone with a new generation cell phone at hand can potentially enter a public building, access information systems and hack them.
Therefore organizations need not only the system tools, but also a structure that will guarantee that the tools deployed are updated regularly to respond to new intrusion techniques.
With the Applied Watch/Savoir-faire Linux partnership, large enterprises and public administrations, federal or provincial, have at their disposal not only incomparable tools to protect their data and their network but also and above all the best network security specialists worldwide; Applied Watch, standing by 24h/24 with a reaction time of less than 15 minutes, takes charge of response conception and adapted tools, and Savoir-faire Linux, leader in the Open-Source technologies in Canada since 1999, also available 24h/24, who can intervene on site with the knowledge of the client's constraints and specificities, are in constant contact with Appleid Watch R&D teams.
About Applied Watch
Applied Watch Technologies satisfies the market's needs by bringing open-source security solutions at the disposal of organizations.
Applied Watch has come to being precisely to adapt Open Source for organizations.
Today, Applied Watch Technologies is the first provider of Open Source data security management solutions worldwide, for federal institutions as well as military and commercial.
With over 400 deployments, Applied Watch command center is entrusted with all Open Source project in development.
Applied Watch Technologies provides cost effectiveness by providing the means for enterprises to freely use Open Source security solutions.
Applied Watch provides easy to use Open Source security management solutions such as, Snort®, Snort®-Inline, Syslog, and a management and control center that centralizes the management of thousands of Open Source solutions developed independently available through a user-friendly panel.
Applied Watch's IDS, based on Open Source components like Snort (http://www.snort.org/), is vital to optimize network infrastructures protection and to get it over with their vulnerabilities. As demonstrated in this objective assessment:
These IDS are based on cost-effective components that constitute the vast majority of intrusion detection systems through an unprecedented filtering method, by exploiting thousands of attack signatures.
Moreover, Applied Watch's new management consoles maximize efficiency and these IDS always better adapt to network flow while false positives decrease substantially, all this in an integration sealed by Savoir-faire Linux's expertise.
