RFA Introduces Sentinel, Managed Real-time Security Intelligence Service that Maximizes Network Uptime and Profitability for Hedge Funds

Sentinel Identifies Security Threats While Meeting Compliance Auditing Requirements

New York, NY - November 30, 2006

Richard Fleischman & Associates (RFA), the leader in IT solutions for the hedge fund community, has introduced RFA Sentinel, a new fully managed service to provide real-time security intelligence solution. RFA Sentinel identifies and understands hacker, virus and SPAM/spyware behavior, security breaches and unauthorized access to sensitive information. Armed with this information, enterprises are able to easily combat security threats while meeting compliance auditing requirements. This proactive approach leads to vastly improved security, reduced network downtime and increased profitability for hedge funds.

"RFA Sentinel is a mission-critical solution for any hedge fund concerned with network security and uptime," said Richard Fleischman, president of RFA. "We understand that the network is a hedge fund's engine for generating revenue and its our job is to make sure that engine is always running clean and smooth with minimal time and resources expended by the enterprise."

RFA Sentinel automatically collects and correlates event data from a variety of heterogeneous multi-vendor network devices and systems including routers, switches, firewalls, VPNs, IDS/IPS systems, proxy servers, antivirus, SPAM and spyware systems, content filtering web security appliances, Windows, Unix and Linux servers and work stations. This information helps eliminate false positives, identify security breaches and corporate violations, and improve security operations.

RFA Sentinel provides the following key features and benefits:

• Preemptive action against network threats provided by RFA's 24/7 NOC
• Reporting portal with powerful drilldown
• Correlated reporting
• Intrusion and rule based reporting
• Automated report generation and distribution
• Automated log archiving for compliance
• Compliance monitoring
• Scalable search
• Activity investigation

In addition, Sentinel guards a hedge fund's network in the following ways:

• Security Topology - Comprehensive network topology enables security professionals to quickly obtain insight into the security posture of the entire network infrastructure.
• Threat Visualization - Real-time mapping of security events on the topology provides easy visualization and understanding of security posture, and minimizes reaction time to security events.
• Event Drilldown - Advanced on-the-fly event correlation and analysis of significant security events.
• Heterogeneous Real-time Monitoring - Monitors security event data across the entire network of security devices and hosts in real-time.
• Real-time Event Manager - View security event data from thousands of heterogeneous and multi-vendor network devices and prioritize the actions based on business impact of each event, allowing for corrective actions before an incident occurs.
• Monitoring Dashboard - Monitoring dashboard provides a quick, consolidated view of the environment. Create and view any number of user-specific monitoring views and toggle between the different views.