eEye Digital Security and BMC Software Team to Unite Security, Business and IT With Business Service Management

Business Wire, Feb 28, 2007

Combined Security and Infrastructure Management Solutions Lower Risk, Improve Business Availability With Comprehensive IT Management

ALISO VIEJO, Calif. -- eEye Digital Security[R], a leading developer of endpoint security and vulnerability management software solutions, today announced it has entered into a strategic relationship with BMC Software, Inc. joining the BMC MarketZone program. For the first time, the eEye and BMC agreement brings security management capabilities to Business Service Management (BSM).

By integrating the eEye Retina([R]) Network Security Scanner and the eEye REM([R]) Security Management Console with the BMC Atrium CMDB, IT organizations can leverage BMC's business-relevant views of the IT infrastructure to manage and monitor network security using a single console. The combined solutions provide customers with a comprehensive IT risk assessment strategy that directly correlates to business operations.

"Both business management and security require granular views of the entire network and developing those views can also take a lot of resources," said Ross Brown, eEye's CEO. "Until now, IT was forced to recreate these views depending on whether you were looking at them from a business process or a security viewpoint. By joining forces with BMC, we offer customers a complete, unified view of security and infrastructure management solutions that offer improved risk management and greater insight into IT operations."

The BMC Atrium CMDB, a centerpiece of BSM, enables a unified approach to IT management by linking IT infrastructure data, IT processes and business services together in a common repository. Combined with eEye's REM and Retina Network Security Scanner, organizations can quantify and evaluate their security posture using a single console, create and enforce security policies, and deliver an extensible "business process" view for risk management.

"With Business Service Management, BMC has focused much of its efforts over the past several years on integrating business perspectives and traditional IT operational views of the IT environment. Now, many of our customers are also making security an integral part of managing their infrastructure," said Bryant Macy, Configuration Management Product Line Executive, BMC Software. "The integration of eEye's vulnerability management suite with the BMC Atrium CMDB brings security management to BSM, business intelligence, change process management and rapid, but intelligent, change execution - all to lower business risk."

The combination of eEye solutions and the BMC Atrium CMDB also strengthens customers' ability to maintain compliance with regulatory guidelines. A fundamental element of demonstrating regulatory compliance is the ability to assess and manage IT risks or threats as they relate to the operations of an enterprise. Together, eEye and BMC enable customers to identify, store, isolate, secure and patch vulnerabilities in the IT infrastructure. The combined solutions minimize the impact of security threats on business operations while providing the evidence required to prove that the desired security and compliance posture is being met.

eEye is a partner in BMC's MarketZone resale program. To learn more about how to establish a sophisticated risk management program with eEye and BMC, please send an email to bmc@eeye.com.

About REM and Retina

The REM(TM) Security Management Console raises the bar for security management by enabling enterprises to quantify and evaluate their security posture using a single console, create and enforce security policies, and deliver an extensible "business process" view for risk management. REM gives enterprises the ability to assess and manage vulnerabilities at a granular level never before achieved; allowing IT to evaluate potential security issues at an event, asset or process level and take action immediately across their entire network.

Leveraging vulnerability, attack and policy related information provided by Retina([R]) in local or distributed environments, REM provides organizations with metrics and graphical representations of enterprise security risk. This enables administrators to quickly determine security status on any number of levels, including business unit, geographic location, operating system, etc. This ability to pinpoint risk and quantify its impact gives security teams the information required to quickly adapt their security strategies.

For organizations that rely on enterprise applications such as help desk, framework or network monitoring solutions, REM's open architecture provides for seamless integrations with those platforms, passing along vulnerability data to further leverage such investments, delivering reduced IT costs and further operational efficiencies.

Recognized as the industry standard for vulnerability assessment, Retina identifies known network security vulnerabilities and assists in prioritizing threats for remediation. Featuring fast, accurate, and non-intrusive scanning, users are able to secure their networks against even the most recently discovered vulnerabilities. Users can also leverage Retina for security risk assessment, project risk management and enforcing standards-based registry settings through custom policy audits. And, because the majority of Retina scans can be conducted without administrator rights, Retina is the easiest scanner to use, and the most cost-effective to deploy.