October 2005
ArcSight Named Leader in 2005 Forrester Wave: Security Information Management Report

The Forrester Wave report called ArcSight "tops for operations" and said that "ArcSight makes the shortlist for customers looking to build centralized Security Operations Centers (SOCs)." Forrester further reported that ArcSight's "product is an especially good fit for buyers who need superior security monitoring in the data center," and that ArcSight has an "excellent commitment to customer service."

According to Gartner, "leaders" are vendors who are performing well today, have a clear vision of market direction, and are actively building competencies to sustain their leadership position in the market. A leader in the security and event management market provides technology leadership and innovation, as well as demonstrated success in consistently satisfying customer requirements for both real-time event management and security information management in large, heterogeneous environments.

"The ArcSight solution reports accurate data in near real-time to provide this [health insurer] organization the capability of moving beyond identification of incidents, to acting on the risks based on business and technology thresholds."

"We were impressed with ArcSight ESM. It is well-designed for the heavy lifting of event management," Jon Tullett, SC Magazine.

Ease of Use and Ability to Identify and Detect Threats Other Security Devices Miss Earn ArcSight Discovery a Silver in ?Network Security Devices and Tools? Category.

Security Information Management Leader Selected for List of Privately Held Companies that Embody the Future of Technology.
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"Network Computing has acknowledged the best and brightest in the networking and IT worlds for 10 years through its annual Well-Connected Awards," says Mike Lee, editor of Network Computing magazine. "The awards are determined as a result of product testing in the Real-World Labs of Network Computing, located throughout the U.S. More than 130 finalists in more than 40 categories have been named. The winners will be announced in the coming weeks."

"Taking into account the ever-growing number of security devices you can put on your network, you'd be hard pressed to find enough hours in the day to even look at all the data regarding potential hacks these mechanisms are throwing your way.

That's exactly why we put security event management products on our testing roster last year and selected one of them as our winner in this category. Managing the alerts or logs on security events, such as blocked packets, failed logons or attempted exploits, is the next necessary step in the evolution of the corporate security infrastructure. Based on our testing, the best product in the umbrella security management category was ArcSight's ArcSight v2.5"

"ArcSight wins our Blue Ribbon Award based on its ease of use, flexibility and administration interface"

"ArcSight also provides the best means of supporting proprietary or unsupported logs. Its FlexAgent lest you quickly parse a log file to use in filters and correlation rules."

"ArcSight provided the best method of creating filters and correlation rules, and you are limited only by your imagination."

"ArcSight provides the most flexible interface and is still easy to use in spite of everything you can do with it."

"We liked ArcSight's overall reporting system the best for flexibility and ease of use."

"ArcSight took our Editor's Choice Award for being, simply, a well rounded solution."

"ArcSight took our top honors because it went further towards making our lives easier with the least amount of hassle"

"ArcSight visualization features are incredibly handy"

"It boasts one of the most mature and flexible consoles, strong visualization tools, easy-to-use correlation functions, customizable dashboards, a healthy set of usable documentation, and an in-depth reporting engine."

"ArcSight easily earned our DEPLOY (highest) rating."

"ArcSight's real power is in its flexibility."

"If you're big enough to wonder whether this is something your business should be deploying, the answer is undoubtedly yes."