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ArcSight Enterprise Security Manager(ArcSight ESM)
ArcSight ESM is a comprehensive enterprise security platform. By centrally collecting and analyzing security data from heterogeneous devices, ArcSight helps customers worldwide to manage information risk and protect critical assets.

Security organizations use ArcSight ESM to discover risks, correlate relevant security information, assess vulnerabilities and communicate compliance to stakeholders and customers. The ArcSight ESM console provides security organizations with comprehensive, real time, expert security information analysis and remediation capabilities.
   
Broad Application
Customers of ArcSight ESM use our solution for threat management, both internal and perimeter as well as for regulatory compliance.

ArcSight ESM is designed to
Monitor, normalize and consolidate all security data
Correlate events from multiple devices, including asset value and vulnerability status
Automate investigation and resolution of security incidents
Report to operations staff, executives and auditors on the health and status of the security function
Enterprise Class
Threats and attacks span the entire network, across organizations and geographies. ArcSight ESM has been specifically designed with the reliability, performance and flexibility to deploy across the enterprise to provide a global solution. ArcSight ESM runs on industry standard hardware and software platforms including NT, Unix, Solaris, Linux and MacOS and utilizes robust database solutions such as Oracle.
   
ArcSight has executed a customer-focused approach to product definition and development and features the broadest range of enterprise users of any ESM software vendor. Customers include major financial services organizations, over 20 government agencies, manufacturers and service organizations such as the Internal Revenue Service, Telindus, Harris Corporation and the Department of Health and Human Services. Union Bank of California, Defense Information Systems Agency, and Unisys are a few of the largest and most sophisticated users of ArcSight ESM. This focus on excellence in innovation and enterprise customer requirements has also enabled ArcSight to demonstrate clear product and technology leadership, sweeping all 2004 independent product comparison reviews.
   
As security becomes increasingly mission-critical to large organizations, ArcSight has entered into strategic partnerships with major infrastructure providers. ArcSight leads the market with support for over 120 different security products from over 60 different technology vendors. In addition, ArcSight is a Platinum HP Enterprise Solution Partner and a top-tier Cisco AVVID and Juniper Networks Global partner. Each of these strategic relationships required invitation by the vendor along with a comprehensive interoperability certification process.
ArcSight ESM Unique Advantage
In addition to its broad application and enterprise-class architecture, the unique capabilities of ArcSight ESM include:
Comprehensive Device Support
  Ubiquitous and deep information capture, leveraging existing assets and resources by supporting the largest number of devices out-of-the-box. ArcSight ESM SmartAgents support more than 100 device types; a SmartAgent SDK is available for custom connectivity.
Expert Analysis Engine
  N-dimensional assessment of vulnerabilities, assets and threats, with the ability to collect and normalize 100% of relevant data events. ArcSight ESM maps events to vulnerabilities; provides business taxonomy with technical impact, and business criticality with force-ranked priority.
Unified Centralized Management
  Clear visualization, complete reporting and remediation with both escalation and notification workflow. Intuitive authoring tools, scalable architecture and storage options to manage TCO
   
With ArcSight ESM, security organizations manage information risk and protect critical assets by responding to the right security issues at the right time.