LogLogic Unveils Project Lasso, Brings Open Source Event Management to Windows

May 2 2006

LogLogic today released Project Lasso to the global log management and intelligence community. Project Lasso is a LogLogic-sponsored and community-supported open source project that promotes rapid development of innovative technologies for monitoring any kind of Windows event. Available at no cost for download from LogLogic.com, the Project Lasso reference design release is the first in a series of community initiatives from LogLogic intended to encourage developers, IT professionals and other technologists to participate in and accelerate the technology development process around log files and their management. Project Lasso represents a viable open source alternative, or complement, to Microsoft's more proprietary Windows event collection infrastructure.

"Project Lasso broadens Windows administrators and manager's options by enabling them to capture all windows event logs on a central server using next generation transport and without deploying agents," said Dominique Levin, vice president of product management, LogLogic. "By making knowledge centrally accessible, at near real-time speed, Lasso users can respond and adapt to critical events and anticipate others to mitigate critical business risks. By harnessing the power of the community, we now have an even greater opportunity to accelerate innovation in the Windows event management market. We welcome developers and IT professionals to Project Lasso and encourage them to get directly involved with building the future of open Windows log management and intelligence."

Lasso builds on the success of the Intersect Alliance's successful Snare for Windows open source project. Responding to customer feedback, LogLogic architected and implemented Lasso to provide centralized log management, eliminating the need to manage individual agents, and, greatly reducing the impact on monitored servers in terms of storage and processing. LogLogic also incorporated improved and reliable transport of log data in the form of TCP Syslog. In addition to the standard Windows event logs, Project Lasso can also capture application-specific and custom Windows event logs. LogLogic anticipates releasing similar community initiatives for enterprise software applications that produce non-ASCII local log files over the course of the next twelve months and invites interested developers and partners to participate in the project.

"It's great to see another open source project that deals with the challenges of log management," said George Cora, director, Intersect Alliance, designers of "Snare." "The open sourcing of Project Lasso will continue to grow, and contribute to the market for open source event management as well as the log management and intelligence community."

Project Lasso was designed to enable log data to be captured to support emerging reporting requirements for IT controls such as COBIT 4.0 and ISO17799 that are commonly being deployed to address regulations including Sarbanes-Oxley, PCI, HIPAA and BASEL II. Windows event collection through Project Lasso gives auditors a detailed record of user activity, including which files, objects and applications were touched and when.

Project Lasso will also be offered and supported as part of LogLogic's award-winning log management and intelligence platform. LogLogic appliances make broad use of open source technologies including Linux, MySQL, Lucene and Tomcat.

Project Lasso and related documentation is available for immediate free download from loglogic.com. LogLogic anticipates making Project Lasso available shortly on Sourceforge.net as lassolog. The software is available under the GNU Public License (GPL).

About LogLogic

LogLogic provides the world's leading enterprise-class platform for collecting, storing, reporting and alerting on 100 percent of IT log data from virtually any device, operating system or application. LogLogic series 3 LX and ST appliances address the compliance, operations and risk mitigation needs of the most demanding Fortune and Times 1000 companies globally. LogLogic's innovations include creating the world's first search engine for fast moving IT log data and Compliance Suites that automate using that data to enforce critical controls and regulations. LogLogic has won multiple awards including Best of Interop 2005, SC Magazine's "Best Computer Forensics" and Info Security's "Hot Company 2006." For more visit http://www.loglogic.com and blog.loglogic.com.

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