Cyberoam launches Open Source solution

AHMEDABAD, INDIA: Cyberoam-iView, an open source logging and reporting solution was launched today by Cyberoam. iView is Cyberoam's contribution to the open source community.

Free to download from sourceforge.net, Cyberoam-iView delivers centralized identity-based logging and reporting of multiple devices across geographical locations, enabling organizations to meet their security management and regulatory compliance requirements.

In addition, organizations receive the benefit of flexibility and speed of development which the open source community brings to them, allowing them to gain visibility into the entire network activity without having to make large capital outlays.

Abhilash Sonwane, VP-Product Management, Cyberoam, said, “The internal user is the key factor in an organization's security. Thus Cyberoam is the only solution that has always given visibility into 'Who is doing What' in the network. With the rise in insider threats and the consequent rise in security breaches and regulatory compliance requirements, we saw a broader need for user-centric reporting beyond Cyberoam's own UTM security.”

“Hence, we decided to bring our experience in 'identity-based reporting' to meet organizations' requirement for logging-reporting from multiple devices and applications with reduced complexity,” he added.

Cyberoam-iView would, initially enable organizations to derive logs and reports of open source solutions like the Linux Iptables/netfilter Firewall, the popular open source HTTP proxy Squid and other commercial UTM firewall solutions also. With the involvement of the open source community, it aims to add more such popular and widely used network devices, servers, databases and operating systems rapidly. The solution offers archiving and meets the legal and investigative requirements of forensics.

The development community and organizations are free to download Cyberoam-iView from sourceforge.net. Available as open source, the solution has a ready list of projects which would help organizations, particularly small and medium enterprises in bringing logging-reporting over multiple devices and locations over a single, consolidated, centralized interface, helping them meet the requirements of regulatory compliance.