Press releases

The turn-key appliance for log management helps meet compliance requirements while lowers the operational risks and costs New York – May 15, 2012 – BalaBit IT Security – also known as the “syslog-ng company” – today announced the general availability of syslog-ng Store Box™ 3.0, the latest long term supported version of its trusted log [...]

 

 

•     BalaBit unveiled Reliable Log Transfer Protocol (RLTP)TM technology to help companies achieve “Zero Message Loss” and comply with even the most stringent regulations   •    The syslog-ng trusted logging solution became the de-facto industry standard for logging within the last decade and is now used by 650 000 companies world-wide New York, February [...]

A Linux Akadémia (covek) tudatja: “Örömmel tudatom, hogy idén is lesz Linux Akadémia Szerencsen. Az idei a 12-ik alkalom. Kedvcsinálóként ingyenes előadásokat szervezünk, az első március 3-án lesz.”

Background On 25 January, 2012, the European Commission has proposed a comprehensive reform of the EU’s 1995 data protection rules to strengthen online privacy rights and boost Europe’s digital economy. Technological progress and globalisation have profoundly changed the way our data is collected, accessed and used. In addition, the 27 EU Member States have implemented [...]

Joint Solution Controls Privileged User Activity with Movie-Like Playback and Free-Text Searches of Audit Trail Content New York/Los Angeles – November 29, 2011 – BalaBit IT Security, one of the global leaders in privileged activity monitoring, trusted logging and proxy-based gateway technologies, and Lieberman Software Corporation, developers of the first fully automated privileged identity management [...]

Joint Solution Controls Privileged User Activity with Movie-Like Playback and Free-Text Searches of Audit Trail Content New York/Los Angeles – November 29, 2011 – BalaBit IT Security, one of the global leaders in privileged activity monitoring, trusted logging and proxy-based gateway technologies, and Lieberman Software Corporation, developers of the first fully automated privileged identity management [...]

BalaBit IT Security surveyed IT professionals and found that in spite of the fact that 74% of them have already misused the company’s IT system, and could have lost his/her job, if a video recording could have proven wrongdoing, 92% of the surveyed would not object to being observed by an activity monitoring tool. New [...]

•    The new High-Speed Reliable Logging (HSRL) technology, developed by BalaBit IT Security, revolutionizes the global logging market: it is capable of handling up to 1.000.000 log messages* per second •    BalaBit’s syslog-ng Premium Edition 4 F1 already contains the High-Speed Reliable Logging (HSRL) technology developments •    The syslog-ng trusted logging solution became the de [...]

The CEE™ Board is an advisory body in collaboration with logging tool and operating system vendors and the government of the United States, providing valuable input on the CEE Log Standards. BalaBit, with its existing pattern database (patternDB) and syslog-ng user group (650 000 companies word-wide) is an active contributor of logging standards creation. New [...]

The CEE™ Board is an advisory body in collaboration with logging tool and operating system vendors and the government of the United States, providing valuable input on the CEE Log Standards. BalaBit, with its existing pattern database (patternDB) and syslog-ng user group (650 000 companies word-wide) is an active contributor of logging standards creation. New [...]

BalaBit IT Security, one of the global leaders in developing privileged activity monitoring, trusted logging and proxy-based gateway technologies, announced that two of its products have been reviewed by West Coast Labs, an independent product test lab, under its Performance Validated program. BalaBit’s Shell Control Box 3.0 (SCB), an activity-monitoring tool for privileged users, and [...]

BalaBit IT Security, one of the global leaders in developing privileged activity monitoring, trusted logging and proxy-based gateway technologies, announced that two of its products have been reviewed by West Coast Labs, an independent product test lab, under its Performance Validated program. BalaBit’s Shell Control Box 3.0 (SCB), an activity-monitoring tool for privileged users, and [...]

After the latest version when the whole secure socket layer was opened, now two new proxies are released. Also, the program-stacking feature is extended with the possibility to set the connection state in Zorp. Lets see the details. Two important proxies related to e-mailing have been added to the version 3.9.2: POP3 and SMTP. Both [...]

After the latest version when the whole secure socket layer was opened, now two new proxies are released. Also, the program-stacking feature is extended with the possibility to set the connection state in Zorp. Lets see the details. Two important proxies related to e-mailing have been added to the version 3.9.2: POP3 and SMTP. Both [...]

 

BalaBit IT Security has established a new Research and Development Centre in Veszprém (Hungary) where the special modules of its activity monitoring product called Shell Control Box are going to be developed. BalaBit IT Security, one of the global leaders in developing privileged activity monitoring, trusted logging and proxy-based gateway technologies, has started to substantially [...]

Cloud providers will require High-Speed Reliable Logging (HSRL) solutions to be able to maintain and secure their data centers BalaBit IT Security – also known as the “syslog-ng company”, based on their trusted logging solution, which became the de facto industry standard for logging in the last decade and used by 650 000 corporate customers [...]

Balázs Scheidler, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technology Engineer of BalaBit IT Security has received the “Info-communications Manager of the Year – Gyurós Tibor Prize”  from the ICT Association of Hungary (IVSZ), established by the ICT industry top managers in 1997, Hungary. Since then, every year an independent jury, consists of senior ICT managers and [...]

Balázs Scheidler, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technology Engineer of BalaBit IT Security has received the “Info-communications Manager of the Year – Gyurós Tibor Prize”  from the ICT Association of Hungary (IVSZ), established by the ICT industry top managers in 1997, Hungary. Since then, every year an independent jury, consists of senior ICT managers and [...]

The company’s most popular product, Shell Control Box, an activity monitoring tool for privileged access, contributed with a 187 percent revenue growth BalaBit IT Security was selected again to Deloitte Technology Fast 50 in 2010, Central Europe New York, June 15, 2011 – BalaBit IT Security, an innovative information security company, one of the global [...]

Zorp ensures reliable and controlled connectivity of network infrastructures with improved performance, security and stability BalaBit IT Security, one of the global leaders in developing privileged activity monitoring, trusted logging and proxy-based gateway technologies announced the general availability of Zorp 3.4, the feature release of its enterprise proxy firewall. As external and internal threats, such [...]

According to IDC, compliance drives investment priorities in 2011 while financial companies will grow their compliance investments up to 15-20% of their IT budgets Budapest, Hungary – May 9th 2011 IDC EMEA Headquarters, London, May 9th 2011 In its recent White Paper titled “Compliance is More Than Just Cost: Creating Value Beyond Compliance” (#IDCWP05T) published [...]

Trusted logging infrastructure for over 40 platforms Budapest, Hungary – February 7, 2011 Press Release BalaBit IT Security, the technology leader in trusted log infrastructures and trusted log management, announced the new long-term-supported major release of syslog-ng Premium Edition Release 4.0 today. With broad market acceptance of its reliable logging technology – syslog-ng – across [...]

Trusted logging infrastructure for over 40 platforms Budapest, Hungary – February 7, 2011 Press Release BalaBit IT Security, the technology leader in trusted log infrastructures and trusted log management, announced the new long-term-supported major release of syslog-ng Premium Edition Release 4.0 today. With broad market acceptance of its reliable logging technology – syslog-ng – across [...]

Trusted logging infrastructure for over 40 platforms Budapest, Hungary – February 7, 2011 Press Release BalaBit IT Security, the technology leader in trusted log infrastructures and trusted log management, announced the new long-term-supported major release of syslog-ng Premium Edition Release 4.0 today. With broad market acceptance of its reliable logging technology – syslog-ng – across [...]

The latest version of syslog-ng Open Source Edition (OSE), a replacement for the syslog logging daemon, improves its message classification and identification engine and enables system administrators to correlate log messages in real-time. The syslog-ng pattern database, which was introduced almost two years ago, allows for real-time message identification and classification by comparing the incoming [...]

The latest version of syslog-ng Open Source Edition (OSE), a replacement for the syslog logging daemon, improves its message classification and identification engine and enables system administrators to correlate log messages in real-time. The syslog-ng pattern database, which was introduced almost two years ago, allows for real-time message identification and classification by comparing the incoming [...]

BalaBit has been gaining more and more international market share for 10 years now, with sales, partnership building and communication. We took a step forward when we have established our subsidiary in Germany in 2007, and another step when we hired a representative as well as signed a contract with the Theoria IT specialist PR [...]

BalaBit has been gaining more and more international market share for 10 years now, with sales, partnership building and communication. We took a step forward when we have established our subsidiary in Germany in 2007, and another step when we hired a representative as well as signed a contract with the Theoria IT specialist PR [...]

I would like to update you in a draft post about our plans on a new Shell Control Box feature namely the activity audit of Citrix clients. We signed a contract with Citrix Systems Inc. as for they share the protocol documentation with BalaBit to be able to develop the appropriate proxy modul into SCB.

Currently we are studying the protocol, but according to optimistic forecasts we will release the feature in Q4 2010.

26 July 2010, Budapest: BalaBit IT Security, the market-leading producer of reliable logging systems, has released the latest version of its action logging solution.

A new hardware platform is introduced in the relevant version that provides customers with higher performance and an outstanding support of the product. The support of the withdrawing Oracle (SUN) Fire will be available for at least three years therefore the updates are still available for the clients. As a new option the producer offers a discount hardware update as well by means of which the present customers can also make use of the advantages provided by the new boxes.

The operating of the Shell Control Box assumes high level security and reliability requirements that BalaBit as a pioneer attempts to exceed by further developing HA (High Availability) in an almost extreme way. One of BalaBit’s new developments eliminates the split-brain state of the HA cluster by enabling the computers to inform each other about their statuses via the normal network as well when the direct connection between them breaks down. Another new function is able to reconnect the cluster not only when the Master computer shuts down but also when the operation of its network neighborhood is insufficient.

On top of all, the most important novelty about SCB, developed to monitor the administrative and other specially entitled connections, is the auditability of the file transfers (MTF: Managed File Transfer) through the different protocols (SFTP, SCP). Thanks to this the auditor can search the archive for all the files of all operations and can open them in case of an investigation or in case of data leakage.

The SCB 3.0 version is now also able to support the RDP 7 protocol launched together with Windows 7 and the Search module has gone through an impressive renewal thanks to which it has become more efficient and more easily manageable.

Adding support for VMWare View is a very important step in the development of SCB to extend its control & audit capabilities of desktop virtualization and "desktop as managed service" installations as a first step towards supporting cloud environments.

“Shell Control Box 3.0demonstrates that BalaBit has not only created this category of products but it has also been able to remain the market-leader of it. In my opinion, we are producing the most innovative device for the auditing of specially entitled connections.” – said Márton Illés the head developer of the product.

BalaBit IT Security became 10 years old this summer and the company pleases its customers with a special offer. Those companies that purchase between 26 July – 31 August receive a 10 % discount.

About BalaBit:

Ten years ago BalaBit IT Security established its name with syslog-ng, an open source central log server which became a globally acknowledged de-facto industry standard. Based on syslog-ng’s technology BalaBit provides a commercial product line for trusted and high performance log infrastructures supporting a uniquely wide range of platforms and architectures. Three years ago BalaBit launched a revolutionary activity audit tool called Shell Control Box combining the company’s experiences in logging and proxy gateways. SCB takes system administration and other privileged accesses under control and makes them easily auditable with SCB’s movie-like playback feature.

I am happy to inform you that BalaBit is the 26th fastest-growing technology company in Middle Europe. The company founded by university students as a garage-venture has claimed the 11th position among the software developing companies and the 2nd position in the field of IT Security.

Even though the survey of Deloitte is based on the results of the last five years ending with 2008, BalaBit expects record revenues in 2009 as well. The growth of BalaBit is clearly indicated by the facts that in the first three quarters this year (2009Q1-Q3) the revenues have almost doubled compared to the same period of 2008. The number of employees has increased by 40% for this year alone, quadrupling during the last five years, and is expected to reach 85 by the end of the year.

Deloitte surveyed the period from the end of 2003 to the end of 2008; during which the turnover of BalaBit has increased by 562% and was an exceptionally interesting period in the life of the company. This half decade is that brought BalaBit from its initial steps outside the Hungarian market to a profitable company selling worldwide.

“Being included in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 list might suggest that we have reached something we have been working on for a long time. To tell the truth, these five years were really a real-life business course for us that prepared us to going global. The awarded period was the time when we learned to think like a customer, and also how to develop and sell our products. Actually, it was only the first step on the road leading to our goals.

Our brand and product portfolio became solid, and we have established firm positions in several regional markets. We are getting ready for the real growth. Personally, I feel like an athlete before the Olympics: we have been training for this very moment when the starter’s gun is fired.” – says Balázs Scheidler, CEO of BalaBit.

Despite the crisis, Hungary can be proud of its results, as besides BalaBit, ten other Hungarian companies made it to the list, surpassing every other country. Poland has performed similarly well, giving nine companies – including the winner – to the list.

SSH to Offer SSH Tectia Enterprise Security Solution with BalaBit Technology, Combining Advanced IT Security with Internal Auditing and Governance HELSINKI, FINLAND, WELLESLEY, Mass. and BUDAPEST, HUNGARY – May 18, 2009 – SSH Communications Security (HEX:SSH1V), a world-leading provider of enterprise security solutions and end-to-end communications security, today announced a partnership with BalaBit IT Security, [...]