BalaBit’s syslog-ng Premium Edition 4.0 Now Available

Feb. 8, 2011 - PRLog -- Trusted logging infrastructure for over 40 platforms

Budapest, Hungary – February 7, 2011

Press Release

With broad market acceptance of its reliable logging technology – syslog-ng – across all market verticals including market leading customers in the IT, Telecommunication and Financial Services; BalaBit IT Security continues to demonstrate strong recognition for its proven trusted high-performance multiplatform logging solutions, as reflected by its market leading user base with over than 650.000 companies BalaBit’s continued market of resellers and regional distributors has positioned the company to maintain this pioneering development project through 2011 and beyond.

The latest product release is a major, accurately tested, long-term-supported version; that includes the features of the previous minor releases. Since the last major release (3.0) development focused on the further improvement of reliability and performance.

BalaBit’s syslog-ng Premium Edition log server allows system administrators and security experts to build a trusted and centralized logging infrastructure for reviewing and auditing the log messages of over 40 platforms. For companies using syslog-ng Open Source Edition it is easy to upgrade to Premium Edition.

Quotes

“With syslog-ng PE 4.0, BalaBit raises the reliability, performance, and the range of supported platforms in enterprise logging to a new level, once again demonstrating its 13-year-old technology leading role in the log server market.” – Balázs Scheidler, CEO of BalaBit IT Security.

“syslog-ng does not only answer market trends, but also influences them by leading the engineers’ needs.” – Zoltán Györkő, Business Development Director of BalaBit IT Security.

News Facts

   * To increase the reliability of centralized log management tools, BalaBit introduces syslog-ng Premium Edition Release 4.0
   * BalaBit’s syslog-ng Premium Edition log server allows system administrators and security experts to build a trusted, centralized logging infrastructure for reviewing and auditing the log messages of over 40 platforms.
   * This latest release is a major, accurately tested, long-term-supported version; that includes the features of the previous minor releases. Since the last major release (3.0) development focused on the further improvement of reliability and performance.
   * It is easy for companies using syslog-ng Open Source Edition to upgrade to Premium Edition.
   * The trial version of syslog-ng PE 4.0 is available for free download at
   * http://www.balabit.com/network-security/syslog-ng/central...

New Features in syslog-ng PE 4.0

   * Improved reliability, Zero-Message-Loss log collection

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         o The extended timestamp format of Cisco IOS is now supported, including sequence numbers and the NTP synchronicity indicator.
         o The syslog-ng Premium Edition 4.0 application supports client-side failover to reduce the risk of message loss.
         o Logstore files can be encrypted with multiple keys. The cipher and digest algorithms used in encrypting the logstore files can be specified (DES, 3DES, RC4, SEED, RC2, Blowfish, CAST5, RC5, AES, CAMELLIA).
         o Improved client-side HA support.

   * Wider range of supported platforms

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         o The syslog-ng PE uniquely supports over 40 platforms, including recent and legacy Unix systems
         o New certificates for Novell and Red Hat platforms
         o Support of multi-line log messages

   * Better performance

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         o Over 100% higher speed when writing into plain-text and encrypted log files: up to 150k mes/sec.

Resources

   * What is new in syslog-ng Premium Edition 4.0
   * syslog-ng Product Sheet
   * syslog-ng Product Description
   * The syslog-ng Premium Edition 4.0 Administrator Guide
   * Distributed syslog architectures with syslog-ng (White Paper)
   * Regulatory compliance and system logging (White Paper)

About BalaBit

BalaBit is a fast-growing, technology-focused company committed to satisfying market needs through constant innovation of its core technologies and products.

We have been a pioneer of trusted logging and proxy-based technologies for over ten years now. Our first product, the open-source syslog-ng log server application became a globally acknowledged de-facto industry standard.

Based on syslog-ng we provide an enterprise-level product line – the syslog-ng Premium Edition log server application and the syslog-ng Store Box appliance – that provides a solid base for trusted log management, high-performance log infrastructures, with support for a uniquely wide range of platforms and architectures.

BalaBit has offices and channel partners worldwide, its headquarters, R&D and global support center are located in Hungary, Europe.

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BalaBit IT Security is a developer of unique network security solutions like:
- the syslog-ng system logging software,
- and the BalaBit Shell Control Box, an appliance that can transparently control, audit, and replay SSH, RDP, and Telnet traffic.