Telecom Lead Asia: NTT Com Group is launching a security-information event-management (SIEM) technology to provide detection and analysis of security risks, including targeted attacks.
Recently, Gartner said security is expected to remain an IT budget priority in the coming years with worldwide spending on security infrastructure to increase 8.4 percent to $60 billion in 2012. Despite a continuing economic slowdown that has been putting pressure on IT budgets around the world, the Gartner report projected security spending would continue on an upward trajectory, reaching $86 billion in 2016.
The fastest-growing segments in security infrastructure, which Gartner terms the software, services and network security appliances used to secure enterprise and consumer IT equipment, include managed security services like IT outsourcing, secure Web gateway appliances and security information and event management (SIEM). Above-average growth is expected for cloud-based security markets as demand for this delivery model grows.
Results from the 2012 annual Gartner CIO survey show increased prioritization for security compared with 2011 and results from Gartner budgeting surveys published in June 2012 underline the fact that organizations globally are prioritizing on security budgets.
NTT Communications claims that the new SIEM technology detects risks through automatic correlation analysis and evaluates risk levels automatically. It incorporates NTT Secure Platform Laboratories’ technologies designed to detect attacks through log monitoring, and a blacklist generation engine that finds malicious sites; as well as a security information database.
Akira Arima, CEO at NTT Communications, says its investment in SIEM across NTT Com data centers is the first step in its global Managed Security Services vision. By driving new services in the data center, NTT Com, with security arms Integralis and Secode will be able to filter these into the enterprise customer environment.
The technology will be launched as a new security service platform in Japan and the U.S. in March and later in other markets worldwide.
NTT Com Group’s Security Operation Centers, which are located in Japan, the U.S., Singapore, United Kingdom, Sweden and Norway, as well as a new location to be opened in Malaysia, will be reorganized as Global Risk Operation Centers to offer thorough security monitoring managed by highly skilled risk analysts.
The SIEM technology will serve as a universal security service platform enabling the NTT Com Group to offer more thorough services for region-specific risks. The company will also advise customers on risk prediction and available countermeasures based on risk information shared among Group members.
The introduction of the SIEM technology is part of a Managed Security Service.
By incorporating the SIEM engine with its existing offerings, NTT Com Group will use the platform to launch enhanced, total risk management services, including both comprehensive consultation and operation, for evaluation, improvement and monitoring of any type of security risk in customers’ ICT environments.
The NTT Com Group will improve its total risk management services by expanding its lineup of security equipment and services for the new security service platform, including the upgrading of incident detection through correlation analysis and automatic risk-level evaluation, and the updating of databases.
