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ArcSight and VeriSign Enterprise Security Services Launch Global Business Relationship

(June 04, 2008)-- ArcSight,  provider of compliance and security management solutions that protect enterprises and government agencies, and VeriSign Enterprise Security Services today announced that they have signed a global partnership agreement. The agreement enables VeriSign to provide customers worldwide with an enhanced service for managed log collection, storage, and analysis that meets the growing need of organizations to efficiently manage enterprise log data for compliance and security purposes.

The enhanced VeriSign managed service is powered by ArcSight Logger, an appliance-based solution that can capture and analyze all enterprise log data while providing a compressed, cost-effective and self-managing log repository. VeriSign has provided hosted log management services for over five years and recently expanded the engineering and professional services teams that support clients of the services.

ArcSight and VeriSign are positioned in their respective Leaders Quadrants of the most recent Gartner Magic Quadrant reports covering managed security services (Magic Quadrant for MSSPs, North America, 1H07) and security information and event management (Magic Quadrant for Security Information and Event Management).

Regulatory mandates and industry standards such as Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) are driving the need for cost-effective, comprehensive and audit-quality log collection, storage and analysis. These regulations also necessitate automated retention policies and intelligent analysis for reporting and alerting against all log data. Increasingly, organizations are using log management to enhance security posture, assist in network and system management and improve service-level agreements.

"ArcSight is excited to work with VeriSign, a leading provider of hosted log management services, to enhance their hosted log management service," said Chris Peterson, vice president of worldwide channel sales, ArcSight. "We believe that the combination of ArcSight log collection and management products and VeriSign's expertise is significant for businesses looking to improve their security and compliance in a cost-effective manner."

"Through our agreement with ArcSight, VeriSign Managed Security Services can offer customers a compelling new option in enterprise log management services," said Scott Magrath, vice president and general manager of VeriSign Managed Security Services (MSS). "The service extends visibility beyond the network perimeter to the application layer to help our customers achieve broader compliance and more effective identification and mitigation of security threats. We are excited to add ArcSight's unique log management capabilities and connector ecosystem to our proprietary technology and existing service support."

Under the terms of the agreement, VeriSign will manage and support hardware products from ArcSight, including ArcSight Logger and ArcSight Connector Appliances. These solutions will be deployed at VeriSign security operation centers around the world and on-site at VeriSign client locations.

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