Micromuse goes virus hunting

Network management company Micromuse is moving into the security market with an over-arching central management product.

The Netcool for Security Management (NSM) product is intended to bring a number of security functions together so that disparate network events can be drawn together to identify a specific attack.

The company has entered into a number of strategic alliances so that its software can be supported by some of the more popular security products already out in the market.

These include Checkpoint Software, Network Associates and VeriSign.

NSM is based on the Netcool/OMNIbus and Webtop applications and runs on Sun Solaris 8.0 or Hewlett Packard's HPUX.

The strategy of integrating a number of security devices to rationalise their reporting into a macrocosmic approach to network security is steadily gaining ground with the less specialised software vendors.

A fortnight ago, Computer Associates voiced similar attitudes when it called for a more holistic approach to security than the specialist antivirus vendors could provide.

Illustrating the problem CA wanted to address, vice president of the company's security division, Simon Perry told silicon.com: "IT managers need to see how many IIS servers they have in order to detect where and how the worm is moving and not just detect the worm itself."

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