HERNDON, Va. – October 16, 2007 – NetWitness Corporation, the leading provider of solutions for identification, investigation, and analysis of complex network threats, today announced its selection to the Network World “10 IT Security Companies to Watch” list. The publication recognized NetWitness for its innovative solution, NetWitness NextGen™, which captures network traffic and re-uses that 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.
The article states NetWitness is worth watching because, “Business and government agencies are under pressure to boost network security and comply with numerous regulatory requirements to show they’re meeting security policies. Thus, there’s growing demand for tools to do this.”
Network World identifies its companies to watch selections based on organizations that bring revolutionary technology to the table and offer new solutions to difficult security problems and challenges. Companies must also integrate unusually well with the world around it - effectively distinguishing themselves from the crowd. NetWitness NextGen provides an unparalleled security solution that focuses on situational awareness through pervasive data collection and modeling. With ten years of development invested in the core technology, this solution offers a distributed architecture and enterprise scalability.
“As organizations of all sizes face increasingly sophisticated security threats, NetWitness is particularly adept at meeting these evolving challenges as well as efficiently measuring compliance with regulatory and security policy requirements,” said Nick Lantuh, President of NetWitness Corporation. “Having Network World identify us in its ‘10 IT Security Companies to Watch’ list further validates our approach to security and the need for organizations to implement next generation network monitoring solutions that provide greater network visibility and total network knowledge.”
The complete 2007 “10 IT Security Companies to Watch” list can be found in the October 15 issue of Network World or viewed online at: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/101507-top-10-security.html.
About NetWitness NetWitness® Corporation provides patented next generation network monitoring software products that enable organizations to achieve Total Network KnowledgeTM. Users of NetWitness NextGenTM can concurrently solve a wide variety of network and security problems, including, insider threat management, data leakage protection, malware activity detection, network performance management, compliance verification and e-discovery. This infrastructure provides definitive answers to tough security problems and threats through automated network understanding of application layer data and related content. Originally, developed for the US Intelligence Community, NetWitness has evolved to provide enterprises with breakthrough methods of network content analysis and risk determination. Customers include Defense, National Law Enforcement and Intelligence Agencies and Fortune 1000 organizations. For more information visit: www.netwitness.com.