Security compliance has become a top priority for enterprises due to pressures from increasing frequency and severity of security breaches, and from regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
Elemental Security, Inc.(TM), a company pioneering new technology in enterprise information security announced the next release of the Elemental Compliance System. Elemental unifies policy management, host configuration, and network access control in one integrated offering. Addressing customer response, this newest version of Elemental's security compliance management product delivers increased platform coverage, including agent support for Win2000 desktops, Win2000 and Win2003 servers, and Red Hat EL 3.0. Elemental also offers a deeper policy library, including templates for SOX and additional Windows OS and server applications.
"In pulling together capabilities from several security segments, Elemental's solution is differentiated from the pack in that it addresses the complete lifecycle of security compliance management, and does so with powerful grouping capabilities useful in dynamic environments," said Andrew Braunberg, senior analyst of information security, Current Analysis, Inc. "It is good to see the company building out its policy library of pre-built security policies and templates for specific regulations, as well as expanding its platform support. Elemental is emerging at an opportune time to exploit the growing corporate need for security policy compliance solutions."
"This next version of the Elemental Compliance System increases the gap between the security compliance management functionality we deliver, and other offerings in the market," says Peter Watkins, Elemental CEO. "Elemental is extremely flexible and responsive to our customers' needs. We are pleased to quickly roll out this new release with expanded functionality, all based on customer feedback and requirements."
Elemental approaches security compliance by placing an emphasis on policy. Elemental delivers a Unified Policy Infrastructure, coupling the expression, monitoring, and enforcement of security policies across heterogeneous platforms and across multiple layers of individual computers (including by OS, application, hardware, software, and network activity). Powering this unified framework is Fuel., the first and only purpose built security policy language. Organizations can express policies in a manner that more closely resembles how they were written in a security policy document, without worrying about implementation details or platform-specific issues.