What's New in AlienVault v3.0?

What´s new in AlienVault 3.0?
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AlienVault Unified SIEM 3.0
AlienVault Professional SIEM changes its name to
AlienVault Unified SIEM.
AlienVault Unified SIEM 3.0 represents a sea change in information security management, increasing operational effectiveness and unifying global interface from HIDS to SIEM.
AlienVault Unified SIEM 3.0 offers unique Unified Management, Reporting, Vulnerability Scanner, Situational Awareness…

Unified Management
From a single interface, maintain a unique asset structure and a unique user permission structure.
1 unique login
1 unique asset structure
1 unique user structure

Reporting &
Analysis

Unified Reporting

Unified Dashboards
New security dashboards with drill-down capabilities.

New tickets customization
Ability to create completly customizable tickets with new fields: calendars, maps, text, slides…

Alarms
Alarm tagging.
New options for group alarms.

SIEM and Logger Advancements
General improved performance.
A SIEM or a logger can send to multiple SIEM and loggers.

Logger
New architecture:
Index process improved
Search among billions of events in 0,2 seconds.
Support for remote loggers: unified interface, queries for multiple loggers.

Advanced Analysis
Usability enhancements.
Unique IP link representation in Google Maps.

Advanced Analysis
Generates a report from a customized data view.
Timeline analysis:

UnifiedDetection

New HIDS & NIDS interface
Integrated OSSEC HIDS Management web interface.
Manage the built-in wireless agents from web console: installation, configuration, real time monitoring …

New HIDS & NIDS interface
Remote monitoring through ssh (Linux, Solaris and other network devices)
Facilitates password interchange.
HIDS rules configuration through web interface:
IMAGEN

Unified Vulnerability Scanner
Define jobs, policies, roles, report permissions within the same console, assets, and users…

Improved Vulnerability Scanner
Import/Export scans in nbe format.
Ability to consult status, stop, re start, pause a scan.
New Vulnerability Scanner version speed up scans.

User Management

User management
True Multitenancy in a single instance
High abstraction in Asset categorization and user grouping

User management
New user management options for PCI compliance requirements: ability to suspend users, impose complex passwords, expiring passwords…

User session
Real time information about active users.
Further information about sessions, ability to remove undesired users, etc.

SituationalAwareness

Inventory
Ability to include icons/logos in order to identify assets (networks, hosts…) in web interface:

Network Discovery
Passive inventory from information taken with ntop.
Auto inventory through Active Directory/nedi…

Traffic Capture
New traffic capture feature with filtering options.
Results in pcap files for their analysis and solve possible network problems (wireshark).
10 Gbps Sensor.
Upgraded libpcap in order to increase amount of data to process.

Renovated Application Integration
Stylized Ntop & Nagios.

Configuration

Global Usability Enhancements
Better usability in forms: auto complete, error correction...

Data visibility
Global vision of the entire system in one look.

Time zones management
Upgraded support for collecting events from multiple time zones: every log is storage with original date and utc.
Each user keeps their time zone in order to facilitate analysis.
IMAGEN

Backup system
Improvements in SIEM backups management.
Users can restore SIEM events.

System status
Real time information about system status: hardware, software, processes, etc.

Sensor Upgrades
New plugins.
Ability to use aliases.local
Unicode support.
Plugins with ssh remote support.
Ability to use: ssh.cfg.local to customize plugins and maintain the changes after updates.
Keywords to match a rule in order to avoid processing with the regexp.
Multiple output servers configuration.
Improved plugins.
Stored events in memory/harddisk when connectivity problems with SIEM/Logger arise.

Software updates
Ossec 2.5, Openvas 4, Snort-2.9, Pf_ring 4.6.3, Ntop 4.0, Nmap 5.51, Libpcap 1.1…

Feed Improvement
Empowered Feed subscription, including Emerging Threats private feeds.
ET Pro feeds include, e.g., SCADA systems coverage and real up-to -date malware protection.

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What's New in AlienVault v3.0?

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