McAfee, South Asian Technologies host seminar
McAfee and South Asian Technologies recently hosted its successful
Intelligent Security Event in Colombo with the participation of over one
hundred CIOs, CSOs and IT managers from Sri Lanka. This event was aimed
at educating audiences on utilising situational awareness technologies
to get real time actionable insight out of their security systems,
thereby enabling organisations to make proactive and intelligent
security decisions.
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Jagdish
Mahapatra, Managing Director, McAfee - India and SAA RC
addresses the participants. |
The event flagged off with Jagdish Mahapatra, Managing Director,
McAfee - India and SAARC elaborating on the need for a connected
security strategy and a robust situational analysis framework among
organisations in Sri Lanka. South Asian Technologies also announced that
Etisalat Lanka has deployed McAfee Enterprise Security Manager (ESM),
one of McAfee’s key situational awareness solution offerings in the SIEM
segment; ushering the telecom service provider into the league of
progressive organisations adopting next-generation security solutions.
Speaking at the event, Sanjaya Padmaperuma, Chief Executive Officer,
South Asian Technologies Pvt Ltd said, “With the influx of mature
cyber-attacks, information security has become a big data analytics
issue demanding CIOs to have better visibility on the adversarial
actions in their security systems and predict future attacks. We believe
that McAfee’s solutions are well placed to fulfil these requirements of
Sri Lankan organisations, without them having to invest in additional
resources for this exercise.”
Jagdish Mahapatra, Managing Director, McAfee India & SAARC said, “Sri
Lanka is among our strategic and fast-growing markets in the Asia
Pacific region and we are glad to have a strong partner in South Asian
Technologies. Jointly with their team, we are pleased to support
Etisalat in its journey of being a frontrunner in adopting
next-generation security practices.”
Commenting on the implementation, Priyankara Perera, Head of IT,
Etisalat Sri Lanka, said, “Technology advances and sophistication of
threats are putting telecom service providers at greater risk. In the
context of these new realities, we are happy to be among the early
adopters to use situational awareness technologies to gain our
competitive edge. We believe that the McAfee ESM solution will enable us
to have enterprise-wide visibility to identify threats and suspicious
activities to take prompt, pre-emptive actions.”
McAfee ESM is an enterprise-class security information and event
management system (SIEM) that identifies, correlates, and remediates
threats. Like other SIEMs, McAfee ESM collects logs, events, and data
from the various appliances and software running your IT infrastructure.
However, the speed and capacity of McAfee ESM separates it from other
SIEMs. For example, organisations can collect all the logs from all the
data sources they want to monitor, correlate events, and report on
months of data in less than 10 seconds. For historical analysis, the
system can process billions of events from multiple years— presenting
query results in seconds, not hours.
To help place events in context for your organization, McAfee Global
Threat Intelligence feeds real-time threat data into the McAfee ESM
correlation engine, while McAfee Risk Advisor feeds in asset valuation
data. The system can then show you the data related to the assets that
you value most, as threats and vulnerabilities evolve.
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