Tier-3
| Privately held company | |
| Industry | Technology (software) |
| Founded | 1999 |
| Headquarters |
Sydney, Australia London, UK Tokyo, Japan |
Key people | Peter Woollacott, Chief Executive and founder |
| Products | Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), Cyber Security, Compliance |
| Website | www.tier-3.com |
Tier-3 Pty Ltd is an information security software company which provides solutions to organisations to enable the collection, analysis and alerting/reporting on systems, user and applications activity logs, audit trails and event data.
This type of solution is commonly known as security incident and event management, or SIEM. The technology has been covered by several analysts including Gartner,[1][2] Bloor Research[3] and 451 Research.[4] Tier-3 appeared in the Gartner Magic Quadrant in 2011 and 2012. It was reviewed by Secure Computing in 2007.[5]
Tier-3 invented and patented a technique called Behavioural Anomaly Detection (BAD) which allows a normal baseline of system and network activity to be learnt, against which anomalous patterns of activity, which could indicate a security attack or case of misuse, to be detected. Version 2 of this technology was released in 2013.
Description
Tier-3 was founded in Sydney, Australia in 1999. The company has offices in Australia, Japan and UK. Their product, called Huntsman, incorporates the log collection and database engine, real-time analysis, rule-based security event detection and the BAD engine. Tier-3 plays an active role in the information security community, supporting the Australian Information Security Association (AISA) and sponsoring the UK Cyber Security Challenge.[6][7]
Patents
Tier-3 holds US Patent 7,296,070 ("Integrated Monitoring System") which is at the heart of its security monitoring solution[8]
Australian Patent No. 785131 ("Integrated Monitoring System")[9]
Notes
- ↑ Gartner, Magic Quadrant for SIEM, 2011
- ↑ Gartner, Magic Quadrant for SIEM, 2012
- ↑ Bloor Research, Log & Event Management: Tier-3, 2010
- ↑ Tier-3 brings its intelligent SIEM from down under
- ↑ Huntsman 5.1 review (SC magazine)
- ↑ AISA corporate sponsors
- ↑ "First UK Civilian Cyber Training Camps in England ...", Coverage of Tier-3 support for UK Cyber Security Challenge
- ↑ US Patent 7,296,070
- ↑ Australian Patent 785,131
References
- Infosec 2014 exhibitor
- Infosec 2013 exhibitor
- The hidden security and privacy consequences of making business applications available on mobile devices (Infosec 2013)
- UK Cyber Security Challenge - Gold Sponsors
- Keeping abreast of security when your enterprise is increasingly externalised (Auscert 2013)
- Australian Technology Showcase
- The route to compliance (Computer Weekly)
- US Patent 7,296,070
- Australian Patent 785,131