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Worldwide e-security spending up 30pc

The global security software and appliance market grew by 30 percent during 2004, with revenues topping USD3.7 billion.

That’s according to market research and consulting firm Infonetics Research which also predicts that the security market will continue to grow strongly and will be worth USD5.5 billion by 2008.

On a sequential basis, revenue in the security software and appliance market grew 5 percent in the fourth quarter of 2004 compared to the previous quarter. Moreover, the report estimates that the fourth quarter of 2005 will see revenues jump 25 percent year-on-year to reach USD1.2 billion.

Oak seems like an intersting syslog monitoring tool. But swatch still seems to be more advanced.

Oak is a program that can be used to monitor syslogs from a collection of servers and notify operators when problem conditions arise. In addition to providing immediate notification of critical problems oak will also batch less critical problems into summary messages that can be sent less often and via any medium. For example you may wish to have oak page you on critical events while sending a summary of less important messages to your terminal once an hour. In addition you could send a daily email message summarizing all events.