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Industrial Innovation Grand Prize for BalaBit’s Shell Control Box

Saturday, March 23, 2013 @ 11:03 AM Author: Andrea Ipolyi
BalaBit has received two awards from eight categories in the annual Innovation Grand Prize competition in Hungary, for “developing the next generation of activity monitoring tools”. The jury of the Hungarian Association for Innovation, consisting of professional and scientific experts, recognizes not only the novelty of the technology innovation, but also the business result reached ...

Real-time prevention of the most costly cyber-attacks with BalaBit’s Shell Control Box

Tuesday, February 12, 2013 @ 03:02 PM Author: Andrea Ipolyi
The new real-time alerting and blocking feature of Shell Control BoxTM 3 F4 activity monitoring appliance prevents malicious user activities, either external or internal, even those initiated by users with the highest privilegesNew York – February 12, 2013 – BalaBit IT Security, a global leader in the development of privileged activity monitoring, trusted logging and ...

Who Did What and When?

Thursday, January 17, 2013 @ 01:01 PM Author: Andrea Ipolyi
Nearly 40% of today’s IT staff can gain unauthorized access to their organization’s most sensitive information – and 20% have already done so. This is according to recent research Lieberman Software conducted amongst sys admins toiling in the trenches.Hardly surprising findings though, considering that privileged users in IT who give in to the temptation ...

BalaBit IT Security is ready to further boost growth after appointing new CEO

Wednesday, October 3, 2012 @ 04:10 PM Author: Andrea Ipolyi
BalaBit appoints Zoltán Györkő co-founder as new CEO, and optimized its existing executive team by creating several new management positionsNew York – October 3 , 2012 – BalaBit IT Security – also known as “the logging company”– a global leader in the development of privileged activity monitoring, trusted log management and proxy-based gateway technologies is ...

Help us to demistify the origin and meaning of BalaBit name

Thursday, July 19, 2012 @ 02:07 PM Author: Andrea Ipolyi
Someone just tweeted about funny IT Security company names, and - believe it or not - BalaBit was on the list. No problem, we understand French humor - especially because our French colleagues already explained BalaBit's meaning in French...sometimes it is hard to be a global company ;-)This tweet also made us think: ...

Shell Control Box™ 3 F3 activity monitoring tool is the first client- and server-independent solution which transparently audits Citrix XenDesktop®

New York – June 25, 2012 – Before going on holiday, CIOs – just like every C-level manager – think about ongoing tasks and who will deputize during their absence. But how can they ...

The turn-key appliance for log management helps meet compliance requirements while lowers the operational risks and costsNew 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 server ...

•     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-wideNew York, February 29, 2012 ...

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 ...



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 York, ...

•    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 facto ...

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 York, ...

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 has Opened a New Research and Development Centre

Friday, August 19, 2011 @ 04:08 PM Author: Andrea Ipolyi
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 extend ...

Size does matter: cloud providers generate new trend on the logging market

Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 07:07 PM Author: Andrea Ipolyi
Cloud providers will require High-Speed Reliable Logging (HSRL) solutions to be able to maintain and secure their data centersBalaBit 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 world-wide ...

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 EuropeNew York, June 15, 2011 – BalaBit IT Security, an innovative information security company, one of the global ...

BalaBit to announce Zorp Gateway 3.4 aiming to satisfy the highest security needs

Thursday, May 26, 2011 @ 11:05 AM Author: Andrea Ipolyi
Zorp ensures reliable and controlled connectivity of network infrastructures with improved performance, security and stabilityBalaBit 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 as ...

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