ArcSight

ArcSight is solution provider in the field of information security for the commercial organizations and government institutions, protecting from theft of information, fraud using electronic means of communication, espionage and other threats, helping to develop according to corporate policy.

In September, 2010 it is announced that Hewlett-Packard is going to announce in the nearest future intention to purchase ArcSight company approximately for $1.5 billion or $43 for each ordinary share that is about 23% higher than their price of the moment of closing of biddings on September 10. About it with reference to the source which is it is aware of the transaction, Wall Street Journal reports.

Performance Indicators

Capitalization of the company for September 10, 2010 made slightly more than $1.2 billion.

Revenue of the company according to the results of 2009-2010 financial years which came to the end on April 30 made $181.4 million in comparison with $136.2 million received the previous year. Net profit was $28.4 million in comparison with $9.9 million in 2008-2009 financial year. Operating profit of the company according to the results of the last financial year was $19.4 million against $11.7 million the previous year.

Products

The products ArcSight can be also used for ensuring compliance to requirements of international standards, such as PCI DSS, SOX, ISO 27001, etc. The product line of ArcSight provides collecting and correlation of events of security and also prioritizes for the most important of them what allows to make more quickly and effectively decisions on response to the revealed incidents and the information attacks.

Basis of a product line of ArcSight company is the complete solution ArcSight Enterprise Security Solution as which kernel serves the product ArcSight ESM (Enterprise Security Manager). This product provides collecting, processing and storage of events of security which can arrive from different sources. ArcSight ESM supports integration with the maximum quantity of the applied systems and devices (in total more than three hundred) and is delivered with several thousand preset rules of correlation. The unique agent of Flex Connector allowing to perform integration into any type of the application can also be a part of delivery.

As of September, 2010 ArcSight ESM was the only system in the market having the unique mechanism of integration into any business application. The architecture of ArcSight ESM allows to deploy a flexible solution even in a geographically distributed information system with low-speed communication channels. ArcSight ESM is delivered as in a program, and hardware-software type that profitable distinguishes it from other systems of correlation.

For simplification of a task of collecting, storage and the analysis of magazines of audit the product ArcSight Logger – a ready hardware and software system which can fix and analyze all data of magazines of audit of the organization can be used, providing a compressed and economic repository for storage of logs.

For simpler and effective collection of information about security events as a part of ArcSight ESM and ArcSight Logger the hardware and software systems ArcSight Connectors can be used. It should be noted that ArcSight Connectors can be also delivered in the form of the software.

The line of ArcSight company includes the unique solution for identification and prevention of online fraud in the field of Internet banking - ArcSight FraudView which helps to reduce fraud level in three adjacent areas: receiving control over the account (use of number of the cash card in the fraudulent purposes), identification of malicious transactions and creation of additional accounts.

Besides, the solution ArcSight Enterprise Security Solution includes the following products: ArcSight Log Management - provides collecting and event filtering; ArcSight Threat Response - provides instant reaction to incidents by information analysis from ArcSight ESM, localization of a problem and application of response measures of reaction; ArcSight Configuration Management - allows to carry out a configuration of network equipment and security settings.

System implementation of product-based monitoring of ArcSIght gives the chance to automate decision making process on response to the events connected with security violation. At the same time application of monitoring systems also allows to increase considerably efficiency of the means of protecting which are already set in the organization.

Clients

Sales offices of the company work in the USA, Canada, Latin America, Great Britain, France, India and Japan. The customer base includes more than 1000 companies and the organizations (September, 2010) among which the Agency of the USA on information system protection, Securities and Exchange Commission, the Ministry for Health and Social Welfare, the Federal Reserve System and the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Solutions of ArcSight are actively used around the world by the largest telecom operators, financial institutions and government institutions.