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	Worms Slowdowns and Viruses, Oh My! "For our size, the only way we can survive is to use technology to our full advantage," Erosky says. "We don't have two separate teams to manage both network and security; we have one team that does it all." Click here for full story

	Juniper and Nortel Take Aim at MARS with Radar Both Nortel and Juniper are using technology from Q1 Labs to compete against industry leader Cisco's MARS (Monitoring Analysis Response System) platform. Click here for full article.

	Juniper gets by with a little help from its friends Nevertheless, Juniper made a move this week that flew under the radar: Juniper announced an OEM (original equipment manufacturer) relationship with start-up Q1 Labs to sell its security management software under a private label. To me, this move can bolster Juniper in three ways: Click here to read entire article

	Log Management Gets SLIM "SLIM is a well rounded log analysis product suited for report generation and event correlation." Click here to read entire article

	Q1 Labs offers log management appliance Log management technology from Q1 Labs promises quick fix to compliance demands. Read entire article

	"Right on Q" - Product Review "For all the appliance does, the retail price of $36,900 is a good one. This single-piece solution can save a great deal of effort and money in the long run. We would recommend the Qradar 2100 All-in-One Appliance in any network that has a large number of servers and varying security appliances but has no means of correlating them into one place." Read the entire review

	SIM Moves Down Market Ease of use was the deciding factor behind Wayne State University deployment of one of the new SIM appliances — Q1 Labs QRadar — according to Nathan Labadie, a senior systems security specialist at the Detroit school. “We were looking for a way to take data from all our 12,000 network devices and tie it into one place,” he says. Read the entire article

	10 IT Management Companies Still Worth Watching "Focusing on Layers 2 through 4 is no longer sufficient for network security monitoring,” Jon Oltsik, senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group, said about the news. “By providing very accurate and very granular Layer 7 visibility, Q1 Labs is helping customers to safely roll out and subsequently monitor their critical networked applications.” Read entire article

	Would Combining Network and Security Operations Reduce the Negative Impact of Silos One vendor which takes this position is Q1 Labs. In an Aug. 24, 2007 press release Q1 Labs discussed the results of its survey of over 9,000 network and security managers. One of the conclusions is that internal malicious behavior and employee carelessness is the No. 1 concern for network and security managers. Read entire article

	1+1=3, It actually adds up when you combine SIM and NBA "Clearly, our network team and security group work in conjunction. Basically, we wanted a solution that supported both realms," says Reggie McKee, information security engineer for the New York Board of Trade. Using QRadar "saves time, and lets them work together. We save money with one instead of two different solutions." Click here for full article