From david@vorant.com Tue Apr 1 10:21:26 2008 Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:20:25 -0400 From: David J. Bianco Reply-To: sguil-users@lists.sourceforge.net To: Sguil Subject: [Sguil-users] ANNOUNCEMENT: Sguil Project Acquired by Cisco [ The following text is in the "utf-8" character set. ] [ Your display is set for the "ISO-8859-1" character set. ] [ Some characters may be displayed incorrectly. ] Several of us have blogged about this today, but in case you haven't heard the Big News, here's a copy of the press release issued today. You can read more about this at: http://blog.vorant.com/2008/03/switching-to-sguil-whole-new-meaning.html http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2008/04/sguil-project-acquired-by-cisco.html http://geek00l.blogspot.com/2008/04/sguil-excitement.html David ---------------------------------------------------------------- Cisco Announces Agreement to Acquire Sguil Open Source Security Monitoring Project Acquisition Furthers Ciscos Vision for Integrated Security Products SAN JOSE, Calif., and LONGMONT, Color., April 1st, 2008 Cisco and the Sguil project today announced an agreement for Cisco to acquire the Sguil project, a leading Open Source network security solution. With hundreds of installations world-wide, Sguil is the de facto reference implementation for the Network Security Monitoring (NSM) model. Sguil-based NSM will enable Ciscos customer base to more efficiently collect and analyze security-related information as it traverses their enterprise networks. This acquisition will help Cisco to cement its reputation as a leader in the Open Source movement while at the same time furthering its long-held vision of integrating security into the network infrastructure. Under terms of the transaction, Cisco has acquired the Sguil project and related trademarks, as well as the copyrights held by the five principal members of the Sguil team, including project founder Robert "Bamm" Visscher. Cisco will assume control of the open source Sguil project including the Sguil.net domain, web site and web site content and the Sguil Sourceforge project page. In addition, the Sguil team will remain dedicated to the project as Cisco employees, continuing their management of the project on a day-to-day basis. To date, Sguil has been developed primarily in the Tcl scripting language, support for which is already present inside many of Ciscos routers and switches. The new product, to be known as Cisco Embedded Monitoring Solution (CEMS), will be made available first in Ciscos carrier-grade products in 3Q08, with support being phased into the rest of the Cisco product line by 4Q09. Linksys-branded device will follow thereafter, though the exact deployment schedule has yet to be announced. Were extremely pleased to announce this deal, said Ciscos Chief Security Product Manager Cletus F. Simmons. For some time, our customers have told us that our existing security monitoring products did not extend far enough into their network infrastructure layer. Not only was it sometimes difficult to intercept and monitor the traffic, but there were often political problems at the customer site with deploying our Intrusion Detection Systems, as management had heard several years ago that they ere dead. Now, with Sguil integrated into all their network devices, theyll have no choice! Although the financial details of the agreement have not been announced, Sguil developer Robert Visscher will become the new VP of Cisco Rapid Analysis Products for Security. This deal means a lot to the Sguil project and to me personally, Visscher explains. Previously, we had to be content with simply being the best technical solution to enable intrusion analysts to collect and analyze large amounts of data in an extraordinarily efficient manner. But now, well have the additional advantage of the worlds largest manufacturer of networking gear shoving it down their customers throats! We will no longer have to concern ourselves with mere technical excellence. Instead, I can worry more about which tropical island to visit next, and which flavor daiquiri to order. You know, the important things. About Cisco Systems Cisco, (NASDAQ: CSCO), is the worldwide leader in networking that transforms how people connect, communicate and collaborate. Information about Cisco can be found at http://www.cisco.com. For ongoing news, please go to http://newsroom.cisco.com. About Sguil Sguil is the leading Network Security Monitoring (NSM) framework. It is built for network security analysts by network security analysts. Sguils main component is an intuitive GUI that provides access to a wide variety of security related information, including real-time IDS alerts, network session database and full packet captures. Sguil was written by Robert Bamm Visscher, who was apparently too cheap to buy a book on Java or C.