Sawmill Analytics and BalaBit IT Security agreed on technical and commercial cooperation.

Sawmill Analytics and Balabit IT Security today announce their far-reaching commercial and technical cooperation designed to provide an integrated log management/data intelligence solution that will benefit both sets of customers worldwide. Under the agreement Sawmill Analytics will offer full technical and commercial support for the Syslog-ng family offering enterprise level data access and collection coupled with Sawmill's world-class analytics and reporting. End users and Resellers will be able to purchase both products from Sawmill Analytics as an integrated solution with a single point of commercial and technical support.

Under the agreement Sawmill will support the syslog-ng log file protocol with automatic detection. With its support for over 800 log file formats Sawmill will also analyse the underlying log formats from the remote devices providing a uniquly flexible and powerful solution to the demands of todays compliance legislation. Balabit will recommend Sawmill as an approved analysis and reporting solution for Syslog-ng.

This trend for corporate accountability, privacy, data and employee protection has grown rapidly over the last five years following certain well publicised corporate failures. New standards for corporate probity and accountability have grown at an exceptional rate as a direct result of these failures and now govern almost every area of business. Log files are central to this trend by providing the irrefutable and chronological base data. Analysing and presenting this complex data from potentially thousands of disparate sources, together with real-time alerting, has become the #1 task of every IT department and the challenge of the next five to ten years, driving new equipment purchasing in every organisation. By combining Sawmill with Syslog-ng organisations can now meet both current and future demands through the inherent scalability of both products.