Founded in 1995, Ubizen is the leading provider of Managed Security Solutions for global businesses. Its OnlineGuardian� services offer outsourced management, monitoring and support of enterprise security devices 24x7x365.

Analysts at Ubizen's three global Security Operations Centers use unique SEAM™ technology to analyse millions of security events and rapidly respond to security threats. A Professional Services team helps clients plan and implement vulnerability assessments, security policies and security infrastructures.

Ubizen DMZ/Shield™ Enterprise is a software product that protects Web servers from application-level attacks like Nimda and Code Red, as well as future vulnerabilities.

Ubizen is the trusted partner of major financial institutions and corporations, and today protects 3,000 security devices in over 35 countries throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific.

"As companies expand their networks to include home office employees, partners, suppliers and customers, they face an ever-escalating security dilemma. The more they open up their networks to outsiders, the more they are at risk," says Bart Vansevenant, Vice President Corporate and Field Marketing, Ubizen.

"Security considerations lead to a new business paradigm and should be seen within the larger context of risk management. The increase in complex attacks against computer networks has prompted most large enterprises to install sophisticated firewalls and intrusion detection systems. These products generate vast quantities of log data, in some cases up to 50,000 alarm logs per week, including information that is vital in the event of an attack. Reviewing this data for meaningful information requires a staff of skilled security analysts working around the clock."

Hiring, training and motivating these hard-to-find professionals is costly and can seriously divert an organisation's IT efforts away from its core business focus. A clear alternative is to co-source network security. Companies can reduce costs and tighten security by outsourcing the operational device monitoring and management, while maintaining full internal control over the overall security policy.

This is Ubizen's mission: to provide global Managed Security Solutions round the clock for major organisations, using a broad skill set supported by state-of-the-art hardware and software that can compile and mine huge amounts of security-related data.

Ubizen is the only non-US company to be included in Gartner's North American Magic Quadrant of Managed Security Services, a testimony to its leadership, completeness of vision and ability to execute.

"We have recently migrated from a dedicated data solution to a dynamic database driven environment. Today, we rely heavily on our partnership with Oracle for achieving our level of service. Oracle9i and Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) are powering our Ubizen OnlineGuardian monitoring solution. End-customers get Oracle as an integral part of our overall Managed Security Solution," confirms Vansevenant.

Its need to offer 24/7 services, strong management and monitoring capabilities and support for critical network security devices, backed by rigorous Service Level Agreements, led Ubizen to opt for the leading Oracle technology.

"Ubizen's Security Management Centre operates as a security monitoring filter between our customers' ICT network and our dedicated Security Officers who have the ability to intervene on the basis of four predefined danger levels. All data logs and security events converge into our SEAM (State and Event Analysis Machine) database and Oracle9i RAC. They are replicated into the Security Dashboard database where real-time monitoring takes place."

Oracle's scalable database ranks security events according to the predetermined danger classification levels and establishes correlations between logs within ten minutes of reception. Oracle9i RAC operates 24/7 with no downtime encountered.

Ubizen also uses a second Oracle9i database to power the security dashboard accessed directly by customers, which allows them to follow security events down to log level."

"By upscaling to Oracle9i we have experienced a huge boost in the effectiveness of our security operations. We are now able to make queries throughout the database and the extra flexibility greatly enhances our value added services. The scalable Oracle solution takes us into the major league. From 3,000 managed devices worldwide we can now envisage monitoring our target of tens of thousands of devices."

"We are currently evaluating the Oracle Application Server alongside the data warehousing and OLAP data mining tools. Our aim is to develop relational structures and queries on both our Oracle databases."

"Oracle technology will continue to optimise the security intelligence needed to provide the best available customer-oriented services. With Ubizen's extensive security knowledge and Oracle's technology leadership, our Managed Security Solutions boost an organization's security posture, while reducing costs and freeing valuable IT talent to focus on other business projects," concludes Vansevenant.

More information about Ubizen: www.ubizen.com