BalaBit Presents Syslog-ng Store Box

Budapest, 10. December, 2008 – BalaBit IT Security, developer of dedicated proxy-solutions for controlling network traffic as well as secure system-management solutions has introduced a major release of its syslog-ng system logging application, as well as a log server appliance called syslog-ng Store Box. The appliance – based on the new version of syslog-ng and servers from Sun Microsystems – acts as the central component of the logging infrastructure: it receives syslog and eventlog messages from servers, network devices, and applications; and stores them centrally in an encrypted and digitally signed format. That way companies can comply with regulations such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) that require the central storage of log messages about events like access to certain systems or the modification of important data files.

Syslog is a network protocol for transferring status, error, alert and other messages of servers and network devices. At the same time, syslog is also the name of the application that creates and transfers the logs of events – or stores them on the hard disk. The syslog-ng application and the syslog-ng Store Box (SSB) enable organizations to collect, process, and store syslog-messages at a central location.

Institutes and industries, like the financing sector or healthcare that are affected by such regulations can use SSB to prove the validity and integrity of their log files. Regulations like the Sarbanes-Oxley Act require for example that companies store information like the access to certain servers or the modification of certain data for a specific period.