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Sourcefire Lays Out “Agile Security” Vision, But Not Much Else
| Sep 13, 2011 | Enterprise Security
| Analyst: Paula Musich
Event Summary
September 12, 2011 - Sourcefire introduced its Agile Security marketing initiative, which describes its scenario for how to secure dynamic IT environments in the face of more effective, stealthy and targeted attacks. It promotes a continuous process built on four steps: see, learn, adapt and act. This continuous loop seeks to shorten the time between a security event occurring and when a response occurs.
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Analytical Summary
• Current Perspective: Positive on Sourcefire’s launch of its Agile Security strategy, because it establishes a beach head for Sourcefire’s efforts to move beyond being perceived primarily as the creator of Snort, and plants a marketing flag around its efforts to establish itself as an enterprise security provider. Everything it does from now on will reinforce that initiative and its efforts to establish Sourcefire as a thought leader in meeting today’s threat environment.
• Vendor Importance: Very high to Sourcefire, because the Agile Security strategy sets the direction for all of the company’s development and marketing efforts. It takes a collection of disparate technologies and evolves those into a more cohesive enterprise security portfolio, and seeks to define in simple terms for the market a new and unique approach to dealing with the rapidly changing threat landscape.
• Market Impact: Low on the enterprise security market, because Sourcefire up to now has been perceived as primarily a one-trick pony in the IDS/IPS market, and it will have its work cut out for it to change that perception and compete against well established, top tier enterprise security vendors who have much greater marketing and distribution resources at their disposal.
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SOURCEFIRE INTRODUCES AGILE SECURITY VISION, HIGHLIGHTS NEED FOR SECURITY SOLUTIONS TO MOVE BEYOND STATIC DEFENSES
Cybersecurity Leader Outlines Process for Protecting Dynamically Changing Environments from Fast-Moving and Sophisticated Attacks
Columbia, MD – September 12, 2011 -- Sourcefire, Inc. (Nasdaq: FIRE), a leader in intelligent cybersecurity solutions, today unveiled its Agile SecurityTM vision. Agile Security emphasizes the need for more informed, adaptive, and automated security solutions to protect today's dynamic IT environments from constantly changing threats.
Traditional security tools were not designed for rapidly shifting resources, users, applications, devices and systems – all too common in most organizations. At the same time, today’s complex and unpredictable threats have been able to bypass traditional static security measures. Agile Security addresses today’s dynamic threat environment through a continuous process that integrates four essential tenets, each informing and reinforcing the entire process.
1. See. Traditional security solutions are mostly blind to their environment and the threats they face. An agile approach provides clarity and vision, reflecting the reality of an environment, as it exists right now.
2. Learn. Applies intelligence to data to improve understanding and decision-making.
3. Adapt. Static approaches limit the ability to tailor protection. Agile Security allows automatic evolution and modification of defenses in response to change.
4. Act. Agile Security provides decisive, flexible and automated responses to events.
Tying together an organization’s entire security infrastructure, from network to endpoint, an Agile Security approach continuously loops through this process in real-time, closing the gap between the time an event occurs and when action takes place.
“Most of today’s security infrastructure is static — enforcing policies defined in advance in environments where IT infrastructure and business relationships are relatively static. This will simply not scale to effectively support an environment that is highly dynamic, multisourced and virtualized,” said Neil MacDonald, vice president, distinguished analyst and fellow at Gartner. “Static security infrastructure is becoming an inhibitor to dynamic business needs. Context-aware security mechanisms provide a layer of abstraction and automation of security policies that can adapt to the context of the request and the time the security decision is made.”
“Traditional solutions lack the agility required to successfully defend today’s rapidly changing IT environments against modern threats,” said John Burris, CEO of Sourcefire. “We live in a world where surprises are the norm, and we need solutions that are agile enough to learn and adapt to network changes, vulnerabilities and threats as they happen. With Agile Security, Sourcefire is defining a new, essential and more effective approach for organizations to protect themselves against today’s security realities.”
Sourcefire’s products and services are designed to help organizations realize this vision with solutions that secure the entire enterprise. They provide users with unprecedented visibility and awareness, the industry’s most accurate detection, and powerful automation and integration facilities – all delivering unparalleled protection. Sourcefire customers, in some of the most demanding computing environments in the world, have demonstrated how Agile Security elevates overall defense of their organizations.
For more information, download the Agile Security white paper.
About Sourcefire
Sourcefire, Inc. (Nasdaq:FIRE), a world leader in intelligent cybersecurity solutions, is transforming the way Global 2000 organizations and government agencies manage and minimize network security risks. With solutions from the network to the endpoint, Sourcefire provides customers with Agile SecurityTM that is as dynamic as the real world it protects and the attackers against which it defends. Trusted for more than 10 years, Sourcefire has been consistently recognized for its innovation and industry leadership with dozens of patents, world-class research, and award-winning technology. Today, the name Sourcefire has grown synonymous with innovation, security intelligence and agile end-to-end security infrastructure. For more information about Sourcefire, please visit http://www.sourcefire.com.
