NetWitness Nominated for Best Enterprise Security Solution and Best Computer Forensics Solution
HERNDON, VA – December 15, 2008 – NetWitness Corporation, the leading provider of next generation network monitoring and threat analysis solutions, has been named a finalist in the 2009 SC Awards program. NetWitness NextGen is named in the Best Computer Forensics Solution category of the Reader Trust Awards competition, which honors best-in-class security products and services. In addition, NetWitness NextGen is a finalist in the Excellence Awards Best Enterprise Security Solution category, which recognizes companies with all-around superior security products that help customers tackle today’s pressing security challenges.
“NetWitness is in an elite group of companies recognized for helping businesses large and small protect themselves from the legion of security threats that loom every day. Reader Trust finalists can be very proud of their recognition,” said SC Magazine Editor- in-Chief Illena Armstrong. “Our distinguished panel of award judges also selected NetWitness as a finalist in our Excellence Awards category recognizing its contribution to the world of IT security. Businesses are challenged every day with newer and more sophisticated security threats and they rely on companies like NetWitness to help protect their assets.”
As a finalist in the Best Computer Forensics Solution category of the Reader Trust Award competition, NetWitness NextGen was selected from more than 600 entries submitted in more than 30 technology categories. Winners will be chosen by a panel of readers that represent the circulation of SC Magazine. The Reader Trust Voting Panel is comprised of a cross-section of SC Magazine readership that is comprised of large, medium and small enterprises from all major vertical markets.
As a finalist in the Best Enterprise Security Solution category of the Excellence Awards competition, NetWitness submitted its solution for consideration in the SC Awards program, and the entry was judged by a panel of 18 leading chief security officers from major corporations and large public sector organizations.
“We are proud to be finalists in two SC Awards categories this year,” said Nick Lantuh, President, NetWitness. “The company achieved tremendous growth in 2008 due to accelerated adoption within both the public and private sectors both domestically and internationally. Now with the release last month of a freeware version of our Investigator product, security, audit and investigative staff everywhere will reap the benefits of the most advanced network threat analysis solution available today.”
NetWitness NextGen represents a significant leap in network security monitoring visibility and in the management of advanced persistent threats faced by organizations today. Based upon a dedicated and extensible full packet capture and session analysis infrastructure, NextGen performs both rules-based and interactive session analysis across the entire protocol stack, up to and including content and the application layer. NetWitness NextGen is designed for enterprises to address concurrent problems of insider threat management, data leakage protection, compliance verification, network e-discovery, and designer malware and zero-day detection. In the largest U.S. government agencies, the top U.S. banks and in many large public and private organizations internationally, NextGen has been proven to permit organizations to reduce the time to problem identification and resolution while providing never before seen clarity and context in the incident response process. This advanced capability significantly lowers the overall cost, risk and business impact of security threats.
Winners of this year’s SC Awards will be announced at a gala dinner and award ceremony to be held in San Francisco on April 21, 2009. The annual SC Awards have recognized security’s key contributors and outstanding products for more than a decade. As the industry’s preeminent awards program, individuals, brands and products shortlisted address not only the challenges prominent today, but also the emerging threat landscape of tomorrow.
About SC Magazine SC Magazine provides IT security professionals with in-depth and unbiased information through timely news, comprehensive analysis, cutting-edge features, contributions from thought-leaders and the best, most extensive collection of product reviews in the business. By offering a consolidated view of IT security through independent product tests and well-researched editorial content that provides the contextual backdrop for how these IT security tools will address larger demands put on businesses today, SC Magazine enables IT security pros to make the right security decisions for their companies. Besides the monthly print magazine and daily website, the brand’s portfolio includes the SC Awards, SC Directory, SC Magazine Newswire and the SC World Congress.
About NetWitness NetWitness® Corporation provides patented next generation network security monitoring software products. Users of NetWitness NextGen™ can concurrently solve a wide variety of information security problems including: advanced persistent threat management, data leakage protection, malware activity detection, network performance management, insider threat detection, GRC controls verification and network-based e-discovery. Originally, developed for the US Intelligence Community, NetWitness has evolved to provide enterprises with breakthrough methods of network content analysis and risk verification and determination. Customers include Defense, National Law Enforcement and Intelligence Agencies, Top 10 U.S. Banks, Critical Infrastructure, and Fortune 1000 organizations. To download the freeware version of NetWitness Investigator, visit http://download.netwitness.com . For more information about securing your entire organization with NetWitness NextGen, contact: sales@netwitness.com .