C-S acquires Prelude-IDS, as part of its cyber security offer
With its expertise in monitoring of critical infrastructure (Vigilo), its operational experience in cyber security and integration of Network / Security Operation Center (NOC / SOC), CS acquires Prelude-IDS solution to complete its offers in Security Operating Center.
Prelude-IDS is an open-source SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) developed since 1998 which became the reference in the field.
The main features of Prelude-IDS are:
- built on an open-source core,
- "agent-less"
- compliance with standards (HTTP, XML, IDMEF, etc..)
- modularity, flexibility and resilience,
- hierarchical and decentralized architecture,
- Web 2.0 graphical users interfaces.
Prelude-IDS collects, normalizes, sorts, aggregates, correlates and displays all security events regardless of the types of equipment being monitored. Beyond its ability to treat all types of event logs (system logs, syslog, flat files, etc..) Prelude-IDS is natively compatible with many open-source sensors (snort, suricata, samhain, ossec , etc.).
Prelude-IDS is available in two edition:
- Prelude OSS, limited public version, intended for testing and demonstrations
- Prelude Corporate, sold with subscription and available along with a support contract and maintenance.
In addition to its software solution, CS helps its clients in all phases of setting up a Centre Operational Security
- defining a security policy,
- deployment and configuration of the solution,
- adaptation to the existing environment (eg, log management, definition of correlation rules, setting probes and enhancing filters, etc..)
- training, maintenance and support.
Form the monitoring of equipment and security event interception, to the provision of comprehensive centers, CS offers its customers a wide range of performance products.
"With the rise of cybercrime, CS supports its clients, from consulting to implementation of solutions for protecting their systems and networks. The acquisition of a French solution of security management is a complementary brick to meet new threats, "concluded Laurent Giovachini, President and CEO of CS-SI.