LogRhythm

LogRhythm Inc.

Type	Privately held company
Industry	Technology (software)
Founded	2003
Headquarters	Boulder, Colorado, USA
Key people	Andy Grolnick, President and CEO Chris Petersen, SVP of Products, CTO and Co-Founder Phillip Villella, Chief Scientist and Co-Founder
Products	Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), Cyber Threat Defense
Website	www.LogRhythm.com

LogRhythm, Inc. is an independent security intelligence company that integrates security information and event management (SIEM), log management, file integrity monitoring, network forensics and host Digital forensics forensics. Headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, with operations in Europe and Singapore, LogRhythm helps customers detect and respond to breaches and cyber threats. LogRhythm also provides compliance automation and assurance, as well as IT predictive intelligence to more than 1,100 Global 2000 organizations, government agencies and mid-sized businesses worldwide.^[1]

History

LogRhythm was founded in 2003 as a privately held C corporation by Chris Petersen and Dr. Phillip Villella to “address the unmet and growing need for a comprehensive log and event management solution.”^[2] Originally based in Washington, DC under the name Security Conscious, Inc., the company changed its name to LogRhythm and relocated to Boulder, Colorado, in 2005. It was here current President and CEO Andy Grolnick joined the company.^[3] LogRhythm received $3.25 M in Series A funding from Investors in the company including Access Venture Partners, Adams Street Partners, Croghan Investments, and High Country Venture in 2008. The company secured additional capital of $3.1M and $10M via Series B and Series C funding in 2009 and 2010, respectively, from Access Venture Partners, Adams Street Partners, High Country Venture, Croghan Investments and Grotech Venturerues.^[4] Most recently, in June, 2012 LogRhythm secured $15 million from Siemens’ Venture Capital group in order to “further accelerate growth, product innovation and international expansion.” ^[5]

Products

LogRhythm combines Security information and event management (SIEM), Log management, File integrity monitoring (FIM) and Machine Analytics, with Host and Network Forensics, in a unified Security Intelligence Platform. LogRhythm products are available as turnkey Appliances, or Software for virtual deployments.

Its solutions enable organizations to secure their networks and optimize information technology operations. In addition, it automates the collection, organization, analysis, archival, and recovery of log data that enables enterprises to comply with log data retention regulations. The company offers professional services, such as installation of the appliance or software, configuration of the system, establishment of log collection from supported devices, agent installation and configuration when applicable, and activation of built-in alerts and notifications, as well as set-up of monitoring, search, and reporting capabilities; and health check, tune-up, upgrade, alert optimization, search and report optimization, and device support services. The company offers its products for applications, such as compliance, SIEM, IT optimization, business intelligence, insider threat/fraud detection, forensics/investigation, eDiscovery, and database monitoring.”

Compliance

LogRhythm's platform is used to ensure compliance with mandates such as Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS),^[6]ISO27001,^[7]North American Electric Reliability Corporation critical infrastructure protection (NERC CIP),^[8] Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act (GLBA), Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 (FISMA), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Sarbanes–Oxley Act (S-OX)^[9] and GPG 13. The automated collection, management, and analysis of machine data are integral to meeting many compliance requirements.

Security

By collecting a complete set of data from across the entire IT environment of an enterprise and processing and analyzing relevant information from multiple dimensions, LogRhythm delivers real-time threat management. The Advanced Intelligence (AI) Engine performs advanced correlation and behavioral analytics on machine data throughout an enterprise’s IT environment to identify and alert on devices, hosts, applications and users which have been targeted and/or successfully impacted so that administrators can take immediate action. By utilizing contextual information such as vulnerability data along with other disparate machine data, LogRhythm’s product is used to help correlate and alert on security events and incidents that have not yet happened but have the potential to occur.^[10]

Operations

LogRhythm’s advanced correlation and pattern recognition are applied to operational issues using the same type of logic that can detect security incidents.^[11] By collecting and analyzing log data, LogRhythm’s Advanced Intelligence (AI) Engine allow companies to identify and respond to complex events in real-time which provides insight into operational issues that can impact system-wide IT performance, company productivity and revenue.^[12]

Awards and recognition

LogRhythm solutions are noted by industry analysts and independent reviewers for completeness, useful analytics, ease-of-use and rapid-time-to-value.^[13]

Recognition from third party industry analysts and labs for LogRhythm Products include:

• Gartner- a leader in SIEM Magic Quadrant

• 2014- ^[14]
• 2013- ^[15]
• 2012- ^[16]

• 5-star rating in SC Magazine’s SIEM Group Test

• 2014- ^[17]
• 2013- ^[18]
• 2012- ^[19]
• 2011- ^[20]
• 2010- ^[21]
• 2009- ^[22]

Computing Security Awards

• Best Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) Protection: 2015 - ^[23]
• SANS Best of 2014 Award for SIEM - ^[24]
• Information Security Magazine & SearchSecurity.com 2014 Readers’ Choice Awards - ^[25]
• DCIG SIEM Appliance Buyer's Guide: 2014-2015 - ^[26]
• APEX Tech Company of the Year: 2014 - ^[27]
• Named “Champion” Info-Tech Research Group's Security Information & Event Management Vendor Landscape Report: 2014 - ^[28]
• Cyber Defense Magazine: Most Innovative Company in SIEM: 2014 - ^[29]
• Cyber Defense Magazine: Best Product in Forensics: 2014 - ^[30]
• Frost and Sullivan Global SIEM/LM Market Penetration Leadership Award: 2013 - ^[31]
• Security Project of the Year: 2012 - ^[32]
• Named “Champion” Info-Tech Research Group's Security Information & Event Management Vendor Landscape Report: 2012 - ^[33]
• Receives U.S. Army Certificate of Networthiness (CoN) - ^[34]
• Earned Common Criteria Certification - ^[35]
• Awarded CESG Claims Tested Mark: 2012 - ^[36]
• Computing Security "Bench Tested Solution of the Year": 2011 - ^[37]
• SCMagazine's Innovators Hall of Fame: 2010 - ^[38]

See also

• Loggly
• LogPoint
• Sumo Logic
• Splunk

References

External links

• Official website
• LogRhythm Corporate Blog
• LogRhythm LinkedIn
• LogRhythm Twitter
• LogRhythm CrunchBase Profile