LogLogic Unveils Project Lasso, Brings Open Source Event Management to Windows
Community Project Drives Open Source Innovation and Collaboration for Log Management and Intelligence Free Open Source Project Lasso Download Offers Agent-less Way to Manage and Monitor Event Logs Centrally
INTEROP, Las Vegas (Booth #356) — May 1, 2006 —LogLogic today released Project Lasso to the global log management and intelligence community. Project Lasso is a LogLogic-sponsored and community-supported open source project that promotes rapid development of innovative technologies for monitoring any kind of Windows event. Available at no cost for download from LogLogic.com, the Project Lasso reference design release is the first in a series of community initiatives from LogLogic intended to encourage developers, IT professionals and other technologists to participate in and accelerate the technology development process around log files and their management. Project Lasso represents a viable open source alternative, or complement, to Microsoft’s more proprietary Windows event collection infrastructure.
“Project Lasso broadens Windows administrators and manager’s options by enabling them to capture all windows event logs on a central server using next generation transport and without deploying agents,’ said Dominique Levin, vice president of product management, LogLogic. “By making knowledge centrally accessible, at near real-time speed, Lasso users can respond and adapt to critical events and anticipate others to mitigate critical business risks. By harnessing the power of the community, we now have an even greater opportunity to accelerate innovation in the Windows event management market. We welcome developers and IT professionals to Project Lasso and encourage them to get directly involved with building the future of open Windows log management and intelligence.”
Lasso builds on the success of the Intersect Alliance’s successful Snare for Windows open source project. Responding to customer feedback, LogLogic architected and implemented Lasso to provide centralized log management, eliminating the need to manage individual agents, and, greatly reducing the impact on monitored servers in terms of storage and processing. LogLogic also incorporated improved and reliable transport of log data in the form of TCP Syslog. In addition to the standard Windows event logs, Project Lasso can also capture application-specific and custom Windows event logs. LogLogic anticipates releasing similar community initiatives for enterprise software applications that produce non-ASCII local log files over the course of the next twelve months and invites interested developers and partners to participate in the project.
Project Lasso was designed to enable log data to be captured to support emerging reporting requirements for IT controls such as COBIT 4.0 and ISO27002 that are commonly being deployed to address regulations including Sarbanes-Oxley, PCI, HIPAA and BASEL II. Windows event collection through Project Lasso gives auditors a detailed record of user activity, including which files, objects and applications where touched when.
“It’s great to see another open source project that deals with the challenges of log management”, said George Cora, director, Intersect Alliance, designers of “Snare”. “The open sourcing of Project Lasso will continue to grow, and contribute to, the market for open source event management as well as the log management and intelligence community.”
Project Lasso will also be offered and supported as part of LogLogic’s award winning log management and intelligence platform. LogLogic appliances make broad use of open source technologies including Linux, MySQL, Lucene and Tomcat.
Project Lasso and related documentation is available for immediate free download from loglogic.com. LogLogic anticipates making Project Lasso available shortly on Sourceforge.net as lassolog. The software is available under the GNU Public License (GPL).
About LogLogic
LogLogic® (www.loglogic.com) is the leader in log management, compliance management and security management solutions designed to improve accountability and lower costs for organizations of all sizes. LogLogic’s unique open log management platform enables customers to collect, search and store 100 percent of IT log data for a comprehensive fingerprint of past and current activity across any organization. Powered by the industry’s leading open log management platform, LogLogic’s business applications correlate user activities and event data in real-time for a unique integrated approach to security event management, database security management and compliance management with industry and government regulations.
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Posted April 30, 2006 03:00 PM