Executive View: BalaBit Shell Control Box - 71123

BalaBit IT Security was founded in 2000 in Hungary, and their first product was an application layer firewall suite called Zorp. Since that time, BalaBit has grown into an international holding headquartered in Luxembourg with sales offices in several European countries, the United States and Russia and a large partner network. The company has won widespread recognition in the Open Source community by making their core products available as free editions under the GPL license. BalaBit’s flagship product is syslog-ng, a de-facto standard syslog server for various Unix-like platforms, which is used in over a million installations around the world. This impressive user base allows the company to expand into other areas of security intelligence with products like Shell Control Box, an activity monitoring appliance for controlling privileged access to remote IT systems, recording privileged activities in the form of audit trails, and preventing malicious actions.