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SenSage, Inc.
Type of businessPrivate
Founded2000
Headquarters
San Francisco, Ca
Key peopleJim Pflaging, president and CEO

Joan Varrone, chief financial officer

Dan Barahona, vice president of business development

Rick Schultz, vice president of worldwide sales

Rao Yendluri, vice president of engineering

Ed Chopskie, vice president of corporate marketing

SenSage Inc. is a privately held enterprise security software company headquartered in San Francisco, Ca.

The company creates and markets software that stores and analyzes event data or log records to detect security incidents and fraud, meet compliance regulations, track insiders and execute ad hoc forensic investigations.[1] The company's products help enterprises retain and analyze huge volumes of log data and generate reports for security managers and business analysts at financial, telecommunications, retail, government and insurance organizations.

The company sells directly to customers and through partnerships with HP, Tokyo Electronic Device, McAfee, Cerner and others. Over 400 Fortune 1000 companies use the company's technology.[2]

Corporate History

SenSage Inc. was founded as Addamark Technologies Inc. in 2000. In October 2004, Addamark changed its name to SenSage and simultaneously announced version 3.0 of its flagship security information management product (SIM).[3]

SenSage’s financial backers include Sierra Ventures, Canaan Partners, Mitsui & Co. Venture Partners Inc., FTVentures and Sand Hill Capital.[2][4][5][6][7]

Technology

The company uses a columnar database architecture instead of the relational database architecture that is more common in the industry.[8] This means it stores data in columns instead of rows, which reduces storage requirements, increases the performance of queries, and eliminates the need for indexes when storing event data.[9] This approach is optimized specifically for event data.

SenSage holds U.S. patent #7,024,414 for parsing table data into columns of values, formatting each column into a data stream, and transferring each data stream to a storage device in a continuous strip of data.[10][1] SenSage describes this patent as their “core intellectual property from which SenSage was founded and will extend.”[10]

According to a report by the 451 Group, SenSage uses a “radical departure” from traditional approaches in log management by using non-relational databases to prevent performance issues with ad hoc queries that force full table scans.[11] The report states that SenSage 4.0 has an expected data compression ratio of 90 percent, insert-to-storage speeds of 87,500 events per second (EPS). Per the report, it can scan and extract from stored data at a rate of two million rows per second.[11]

Products & Services

SenSage's flagship product is the SenSage 4, a software application that consolidates a complex stream of business transactions and communications from any network source, analyzes and stores the data, and gives users an interface to search through events from a single console.[12]

Ninety percent of SenSage customers use their products for the detection and investigative forensics related to a security incident over the last 12 months[12] and 90 percent of their customers collect log data for compliance reasons.[13] 75 percent of them have to retain this data for 12 months or longer.[13]

In 2008, SenSage added new user interface features to its software to make it usable by non-technical staff.[14]

SenSage’s software is integrated into products and platforms from HP, Cerner, EMC, McAfee and Hitachi Data Systems. The company has complementary technology for Cisco MARS, Symantec and NetApp systems. In addition SenSage offers a myriad of compliance regulation products for: PCI DSS, HIPAA, SOX, Call Detail Records (CDR), FISMA/NISPOM, NERC and FFIEC/GLBA.

References

  1. ^ a b US Patent & Trademark Office “Storage of row-column data.” Issued on April 4, 2006.
  2. ^ a b SenSage Website
  3. ^ PR Newswire. “Addamark Changes Name to SenSage; Launches Next Generation Security Information Management Solution Architected for Real Time and Comprehensive Historical Analysis; Rockwell Automation Adopts Sensage 3.0 to Reduce Security Operations Costs, Protect Against Insider Threats, And Ensure Regulatory Compliance.” Goliath: Business Knowledge on Demand, October 18, 2004. Retrieved on September 22, 2008.
  4. ^ BusinessWire. “Addamark Secures $7 Million in Series A Funding; New Company Focused on Log Management Off to a Flying Start with Signed Customers and Stellar Management Team”, BNET, July 15, 2002. Retrieved on September 22, 2008.
  5. ^ Bonanos, Paul. “Dealflow: July 29, 2003”, The Deal, July 29, 2003. Retrieved on September 22, 2008.
  6. ^ Carlsen, Clifford. “SenSage taps Mitsui for $10M”, The Deal, April 18, 2005. Retrieved on September 22, 2008.
  7. ^ Dark Reading staff. “SenSage Raises $15M to Expand”, Dark Reading, June 10, 2008. Retrieved on September 22, 2008.
  8. ^ Brian Prince, “SenSage Focuses on Event Data to Make Mark in Data Warehouse Space.” eWeek, August 29, 2008. Retrieved on December 1, 2008.
  9. ^ SenSage, “Introducing a Data Warehouse for Event Data.” Retrieved on December 3, 2008.
  10. ^ a b Press Release. “[http://www.sensage.com/English/Collaterals/Press_Releases/2006/20060606_EventDataPatent.html SenSage Awarded Patent For Breakthrough Event Data Management Technology”, Sensage Website, June 6, 2006. Retrieved on September 22, 2008.
  11. ^ a b Krishna Roy. “SenSage shifts gaze beyond enterprise.” Market Insight Service, The 451 Group, May 14, 2008. Retrieved on December 3, 2008.
  12. ^ a b http://www.sensage.com/English/Collaterals/Documents/Sensage_Datasheet_SenSage40.pdf Product Datasheet]
  13. ^ a b Company Release. "New SenSage Software Transforms Value of Event Log Data for Corporate Decision Makers." April 3, 2008. Retrieved February 26, 2009.
  14. ^ James Powell, “SenSage Software Extracts Added Value from Event Log Data,” April 3, 2008. Retrieved on February 26, 2009
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