Reston, VA, April 28 , 2009— Intellitactics, a global provider of security information and event management (SIEM) solutions for every enterprise budget, announced availability of Intellitactics SAFE LP to enable everyday compliance with NERC CIP standards. Intellitactics SAFE automates the tasks required to comply with regulatory standards: log collection, storage, compliance reports and event detection to mitigate risk. In addition to audit worthy reports SAFE’s event explorer provides instant access to logs and events to improve understanding and accelerate investigation of control violations most likely to put critical infrastructure at risk. SAFE is one energy efficient appliance, capable of organizing logs and notifying operators and security analysts of control violations or anomalies that put the enterprise at risk.

Sunil Bhargava, CTO, Intellitactics explains the benefits of SAFE: “The NERC CIP standards (www.nerc.com/page.php?cid=2)  like PCI, HIPAA, SOX and others, provide a guidance for strengthening security and protecting mission critical infrastructures . In fact, bulk electric entities must be in compliance with these standards by the end of June 2009. Intellitactics’ utility customers use the SAFE LP appliance as a foundation for complying with information security related standards for all their compliance initiatives – not just NERC. Without spending more they’re able to use SAFE’s easy to use the reports and event monitoring capability to automate the daily tasks required to be secure and compliant every day. NERC focused reports (www.intellitactics.com/pdfs/Intellitactics_SAFE_NERC_CIP_Report_List.pdf) are easily accessed from the navigation tree - along with PCI, SOX and other compliance related reports.”

“New guidance from NERC has prudently suggested that entities within the bulk power system take a new and comprehensive look at which assets are deemed to be critical, and at the methodologies used to determine the risks from cyber crime and cyber terrorism,” said Derek E. Brink, vice president and research fellow for IT Security, Aberdeen Group. (www.aberdeen.com/summary/report/benchmark/5727-RA-logs-data-event-management.asp) “SIEM solutions can be especially helpful in correlating information and events to increase visibility across these highly interconnected systems, and in understanding the potential impact of compromise of these critical assets.”