please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . september 2016 learn how and when to remove this template message balabit sa preventing data breaches without constraining business . type public limited company industry software founded budapest hungary 2000 key people zolt n gy rk founder and ceo bal zs scheidler founder and cto products syslog ng user behavior analytics privileged identity management website https www.balabit.com balabit founded in 2000 in budapest hungary is a hungarian security firm specializing in the development of it security systems and related services using machine learning to secure risky privileged accounts . 1 contents 1 history 2 overview 3 products 3.1 blindspotter 3.2 shell control box 3.3 syslog ng 4 certificates 5 awards 6 references history edit balabit was founded in 2000 by six hungarian individuals including zolt n gy rk ceo and bal zs scheidler development director to develop an advanced application layer firewall suite called zorp . after becoming the leading firewall solution in hungary in 2004 according to idc balabit started to develop additional products shell control box and syslog ng and exhibiting at various international trade shows . 2 in june 2014 balabit announced it had successfully raised usd 8 million from london based c5 capital . the investment was intended to finance the company s expansion in the us and uk markets . the transaction would also see balabit be moved under a luxembourg based holding company . 3 overview edit today balabit is a leading provider of contextual security technologies with the mission of preventing data breaches without constraining business . balabit operates globally with offices across the united states and europe together with its network of reseller partners . balabit s contextual security intelligence platform protects organizations in real time from threats posed by the misuse of high risk and privileged accounts . solutions include reliable system and application log management with context enriched data ingestion privileged user monitoring and user behavior analytics . together they can identify unusual user activities and provide deep visibility into potential threats . working in conjunction with existing control based strategies balabit enables a flexible and people centric approach to improve security without adding additional barriers to business practices . founded in 2000 balabit has a proven track record with 23 fortune 100 customers and more than 1 000 000 corporate users worldwide . 4 the main development centers are based in hungary . the company is widely known citation needed for syslog ng its open source log management solution used by more than a million companies worldwide . citation needed balabit also maintains technology partnerships with best of breed security software vendors including citrix lieberman software 5 rsa 6 thycotic vmware 7 and many more . products edit blindspotter edit blindspotter is a user behavior analytics tool and it tracks and visualises user activity by collecting and analysing user related events and user session activity in real time or near real time . it then compares every action to the corresponding baseline of users and their peers to spot anomalies in their behaviour such as an administrator logging in outside of their normal hours . blindspotter is capable of detecting abnormality on the level of issued commands with machine learning algorithms that help security teams to quickly identify hijacked accounts or discover forbidden account sharing thereby avoiding large scale data breaches or compliance problems . this means that if a system administrator uses a command that is different from the generally used command set blindspotter will alert the security team . 8 this article contains content that is written like an advertisement . please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . april 2015 learn how and when to remove this template message shell control box edit shell control box scb is an administration protocol inspection tool appliance which can be used as to control and audit remote system access . it can record and replay the activities of the administrators who manage servers remotely via the ssh rdp telnet ica vnc http and https protocols . scb controls high risk privileged access to remote it systems records activities in searchable movie like audit trails and prevents malicious actions . 9 syslog ng edit syslog ng is one of the most advanced and most popular syslog servers for various unix and unix like systems . 10 11 balabit provides different editions of syslog ng the free ose edition under the gpl license the commercial premium edition pe under a proprietary license . syslog ng store box ssb is a logserver appliance based on syslog ng with features of log collection relaying log routing log tagging and classification or performing artificial ignorance . certificates edit balabit got din en iso 9001 2008 certified in 2005 . citation needed awards edit in 2009 balabit received the deloitte fast 500 emea 12 and technology fast 50 central europe awards . references edit how balabit adapted machine learning secure privileged account blind spot . computerworld uk . john e dunn . retrieved 23 june 2016 . help net security . berislav kucan https www.helpnetsecurity.com 2016 06 09 photos infosecurity europe 2016 . retrieved 9 june 2016 . missing or empty title help milli rdos t k t szerzett a balabit . index . bal zs t th . retrieved 16 november 2015 . https www.balabit.com balabit takes the gold for user behavior analytics in the 8th annual golden lieberman software rsa security vmware help net security us . hns https www.helpnetsecurity.com 2016 03 02 balabits blindspotter extends behavior analysis with biometrics . retrieved 2 march 2016 . missing or empty title help https www.balabit.com news press balabit s shell control box is available in microsoft azure getting started with syslog ng . monitis . ralf eck . retrieved 1 september 2016 . creating a centralized syslog server . linux journal . jayson broughton . retrieved 1 september 2016 . http www.deloitte.com view en gx global industries technology media telecommunications deloitte technology fast 500 emea deloitte technology fast 50 in central europe article 3109360752b74210vgnvcm200000bb42f00arcrd.htm retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title balabit & oldid 743090858 categories software companies of hungarycompanies based in budapestcompanies established in 2000science and technology in hungaryhungarian brandshidden categories pages with citations lacking titlespages with citations having bare urlsarticles needing additional references from september 2016all articles needing additional referencesall articles with unsourced 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