BalaBit IT Security, founded in 1996, is a software company specializing in the development of IT security systems and related services.

History

BalaBit IT Security was founded in 1996 by six Hungarian individuals to develop an advanced, application layer firewall suite called Zorp. After its first success in Hungary, BalaBit started exhibiting at various trade shows in 2003. The headquarters of BalaBit is located in Budapest, Hungary, but has a subsidiary office in Munich

Munich

Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...

 (Germany), as well as several partners and resellers in 5 continents.

BalaBit Shell Control Box

Shell Control Box

Shell control box

Shell Control Box is a device for controlling and monitoring administrative protocols used for remote access or management in computer technology. SCB is a Linux based device developed by Balabit IT Security and based on Zorp technology. SCB inspects remote access protocols such as SSH, RDP,...

 (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

Secure Shell

Secure Shell is a network protocol for secure data communication, remote shell services or command execution and other secure network services between two networked computers that it connects via a secure channel over an insecure network: a server and a client...

, RDP

Remote Desktop Protocol

Remote Desktop Protocol is a proprietary protocol developed by Microsoft, which provides a user with a graphical interface to another computer. The protocol is an extension of the ITU-T T.128 application sharing protocol. Clients exist for most versions of Microsoft Windows , Linux, Unix, Mac OS...

, Telnet

TELNET

Telnet is a network protocol used on the Internet or local area networks to provide a bidirectional interactive text-oriented communications facility using a virtual terminal connection...

, ICA

Independent Computing Architecture

Independent Computing Architecture is a proprietary protocol for an application server system, designed by Citrix Systems. The protocol lays down a specification for passing data between server and clients, but is not bound to any one platform....

 or Vnc protocols.

syslog-ng OSE/PE

syslog-ng

Syslog-ng

syslog-ng is an open source implementation of the Syslog protocol for Unix and Unix-like systems. It extends the original syslogd model with content-based filtering, rich filtering capabilities, flexible configuration options and adds important features to syslog, like using TCP for transport. As...

 is one of the most popular syslog servers for various UNIXes. BalaBit provides two different editions of syslog-ng: the free OSE edition under the GPL license and the commercial Premium Edition (PE) under a proprietary license. Commercial support is available for both editions.

BalaBit syslog-ng Store Box

Syslog-ng store box (SSB) is a logserver appliance based on syslog-ng

Syslog-ng

syslog-ng is an open source implementation of the Syslog protocol for Unix and Unix-like systems. It extends the original syslogd model with content-based filtering, rich filtering capabilities, flexible configuration options and adds important features to syslog, like using TCP for transport. As...

 with features of log collection, relaying, log routing, log tagging and classification or performing Artificial Ignorance.

Zorp GPL/Professional

Zorp

Zorp firewall

Zorp is a proxy firewall suite developed by Balabit IT Security. Its core framework allows the administrator to fine-tune proxy decisions , and fully analyze embedded protocols .The FTP, HTTP, FINGER, WHOIS, TELNET, and SSL protocols are fully supported with an application-level gateway.Zorp aims for...

 indicates a new stage in firewall development which contrasts with traditional technology: full application level filtering

Application layer

The Internet protocol suite and the Open Systems Interconnection model of computer networking each specify a group of protocols and methods identified by the name application layer....

, modularity, flexibility, reliability and high performance. Zorp offers solutions for administrators for problems they have to face daily when implementing perimeter defense. Zorp has a free version available under GPL, as well as a commercial version.

Awards

In 2009 BalaBit received the Deloitte Fast 500

Deloitte Fast 500

The Deloitte Technology Fast 500 Awards are run and moderated by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited. They recognize the 500 fastest-growing technology companies in regions around the world...

EMEA, and Technology Fast 50 Central Europe awards.