Novell Delivers Enhancements to Security Info

<p><strong>Waltham, Mass. &mdash; Oct. 9</strong><br />Furthering its commitment to delivering a single, real-time view of security and compliance activities across the enterprise, Novell has released a new service pack to improve its Sentinel 6 security information and event management (SIEM) product. </p><p>Sentinel from Novell helps make sense out of collected event data, identifies security or compliance issues, and it tracks remediation activities, streamlining previously error-prone processes and building a more rigorous and secure management program.<br /><br />The Sentinel 6 service pack incorporates enhancements such as:</p><ul><li>Improved graphical displays that increase usability and performance.</li><li>A feature-rich data-collector-builder engine that makes creating collectors easier and quicker and improves deployment.</li><li>The ability to export raw, unaltered log data to a text file, which is useful for debugging and testing data collection.</li><li>Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 on x86_64 hardware.<br /></li></ul><p>Sentinel 6 from Novell gathers and correlates security and nonsecurity information from across an organization&#39;s networked infrastructure, including data from identity and access management products such as Novell Identity Manager and Novell Access Manager, as well as third-party systems, devices and applications.</p>