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Reading, United Kingdom, August 2011 – Assuria Ltd is pleased to announce that The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) located in the United States in Laurel, Maryland, has selected Assuria Log Manager (ALM), Assuria’s forensic log management, security intelligence and protective monitoring solution to help meet JHU/APL’s mandated IT requirements for audit log review.

 
“JHU/APL, with its stringent governance requirements, identified that the ALM product met functional and security requirements of their highly complex environment. JHU/APL utilized the flexible architecture inherent in ALM to not only meet scalability requirements but also to meet feature/function customization requirements as they changed throughout the course of the testing phase. Our Assuria Log Manager (ALM) technology was designed from the outset with strong integrity and flexibility built-in, and as a company we pride ourselves on our responsiveness to customer needs.” said Terry Pudwell, Director at Assuria Ltd.

“This was a highly competitive procurement and Assuria had to prove the technical functionality, integrity and ease of use credentials of its ALM solution over an extended period, as well as providing a flexible and competitive pricing model.“ said Kriss Warner, VP Americas,  Assuria Ltd

“Looking ahead, Assuria’s ALM solution can easily cope with collecting and managing logs from almost any system or device that JHU might implement in the future, thus providing future proofing and a low risk investment.” said Warner.

Terry Pudwell added “Assuria Log Manager provides secure collection and management of log data from almost any system or device in the IT infrastructure, maintaining this log data in original and complete form, thus providing a forensic audit trail, a protective monitoring framework and deep intelligence into IT activity. “At Assuria, we are delighted that a world leading research institution like JHU/APL has recognised the technical strengths, future proofing and cost effectiveness of Assuria solutions and the ability of Assuria solutions to meet the company’s IT security governance requirements”.

About The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) is a not-for-profit research and technology center for addressing critical national challenges. Located north of Washington, DC, APL is a division of one of the world's premier research universities, The Johns Hopkins University (JHU). The Laboratory has been a major asset to the nation since it was organized to develop a critical World War II technology in 1942. APL’s sponsors include most of the nation's pivotal government agencies. APL’s expertise includes highly qualified and technically diverse teams with hands-on operational knowledge of the military and security environments.

About Assuria Ltd.

UK based Assuria is a leading cyber security solutions company, with customers in more than 30 countries. Hundreds of major government, defence, financial services and other commercial organisations around the world use Assuria cyber security, compliance and monitoring solutions to maintain control over their IT configurations and to satisfy operational, regulatory and IT security governance requirements.