NetWitness Launches Next Generation Network Monitoring Solution
NetWitness Corporation, the leading provider of technology solutions focused on identification, investigation, and analysis of complex network threats, today announced the immediate availability of NetWitness NextGen™. For the first time, a single solution captures all network traffic and re-uses the same data to solve a broad range of business and security problems such as insider threat management, data leakage, malware activity detection, network performance management, compliance verification and e-discovery.
With ten years of development invested in the core, patented technology, and proven experience in network monitoring and threat analysis with the most demanding government and private sector clients, NetWitness NextGen offers an extensible application platform and distributed architecture that scales to meet enterprise needs and an emerging class of sophisticated cyber threats.
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“In a world in which managing sensitive and valuable corporate data has become more challenging and critical than ever, businesses require a data protection solution that spans a wide and complex range of problem sets,” says Michael Montecillo, Analyst with Enterprise Management Associates. “NetWitness NextGen is not a CMF, SIM, IDS or some other stand alone security technology – it is the next generation of enterprise security infrastructure and network monitoring.”
NetWitness NextGen is an enterprise network monitoring solution that provides organizations the ability to perform fully automated analyses of immense volumes of reconstructed network, application, and user traffic via the NetWitness Informer application. Informer is specifically designed to provide specific and accurate threat alerts and in depth policy and regulatory compliance reports on a wide variety of categories. Informer distills highly sophisticated sets of complex network data and quickly highlights common business concerns such as insider threats, data leakage, covert activities/channels, compromised hosts and malware activities.
NextGen also delivers the NetWitness Investigator application that delivers a highly interactive, real-time view into the same network traffic sets collected and reconstructed via the NextGen infrastructure. Investigator enables security personnel to access multi-terabyte data sets and pivot them instantly in numerous dimensions based on network, application and user-level criteria. Users of Investigator can view this data cube on a continual and real-time basis to zero in on traffic of greatest interest and impact to the organization.
Both NetWitness Informer and Investigator leverage a common NextGen enterprise infrastructure of data recording and reconstruction components, which scale up to 225 terabytes of online storage.
The NetWitness technology has an unparalleled track record of success identifying threat activities and sensitive data within the Federal government, including intelligence, military and civilian agencies, as well as within the law enforcement community. With this launch, NetWitness NextGen allows any organization, not just government and law enforcement, to leverage these powerful software applications and infrastructure to address a wide variety of security challenges. Specific industry functionality has been included to support financial services, energy, transportation, and telecommunications needs, as well needs of broader market that handle highly sensitive personally identifiable information (PII) or research and development (R&D) information such as retail, healthcare or pharmaceuticals.
“With ever increasing threats from both well-funded private and state-sponsored adversaries, commercial and government organizations can no longer afford the inefficiencies and gaps associated with treating each security problem as a singular, unrelated issue,” said Amit Yoran, CEO of NetWitness and former National Cyber Security Director. “Network traffic has always contained critical data needed to resolve a variety of corporate security unknowns. While high-speed data recording and session reconstruction has existed for some time, the necessary analytics, reporting and ease of use to make benefit of this functionality has been absent. NetWitness NextGen leapfrogs current security monitoring practices by enabling enterprises to capture and analyze their traffic cost-effectively, and re-use the data repeatedly using multiple analytic applications to answer a wide variety of questions. The NetWitness NextGen approach enables both governments and the private sector to better address today’s security, threat, and risk management challenges—and to keep pace with the unknown threats, designer malware and custom zero day exploits facing them on a daily basis.”
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