Hardware or Software? Appliance (Software on a Hardware Appliance)
First Launched: Sept. 10, 2007 (NextGen); March 17, 2008 (v. 8.2)
What it does? NetWitness NextGen is a new breed of network security monitoring and active threat intelligence software. NextGen helps organizations understand network traffic in ways never possible before – providing more content, context, and depth of analysis. Threats that were previously invisible now become clear. NextGen is an appliance-based software solution consisting of an extensible enterprise infrastructure permitting the complete, live full packet recording and session reconstruction of all network traffic, and a pair of powerful analytic applications designed to provide both interactive and fully automated reporting and alerting into the application layer content and context.
“Increased end-user awareness of the threat environment and ongoing advances in technology are helping shape better products and services. NetWitness NextGen is bringing innovations in the security industry by a new approach to security monitoring software capable of recording everything on the network and re-using this data across multiple applications to solve some of the most challenging security problems facing organizations today.”
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Performance Throughput: Maximum sustained throughput of 1Gbs
Interfaces: 2 x 100/1000 Ethernet (copper)
Key Features and Benefits: NextGen is a patented, next generation security monitoring, investigative and forensics technology that allows end users to: • Capture terabytes of high speed network traffic in real time • Instantly reconstruct sessions, analyze and model network traffic; • Quickly generate comprehensive, plain English analyses is that can be understood by threat analysts, auditors, and other security staff • Generate reports and alerts that allow users to resolve security problems, such as insider threats, data leakage, network anomalies, zero-day malware, and compliance verification NextGen is the technology required to cope with the criminal and nation-sponsored hacking in today’s threat environment.
“These awards go to the best technology products every year and we are honored that NetWitness NextGen was selected best solution for two different operational security categories. NetWitness NextGen enables organizations to monitor and analyze their data repeatedly in order to identify potential threats and solve any issues immediately. With enterprise and government networks being compromised every day, we are committed to providing our customers with the best products and services available.”
Nick Lantuh, President - NetWitness
Unique Capabilities: • Enterprise-wide meta-data normalization and synchronization (hierarchical and fully configurable) • Port-agnostic service identification • Geographic-IP Resolution and mapping to Google Maps • Forensic hashing at capture to comply with law enforcement needs • “What’s New” Reporting and Alerting • Live Charting (quasi-real-time) based upon active threat intelligence and customized data mining and queries • Free API/SDK available for customers to extend the framework • Flex-parsing
Targeted Users: Small, Medium and Large Enterprises, Public and Private
List Price: $25,000 - $250,000 and depends upon required components.
Satisfied Customers: Vendor claims several very large satisfied customers in both the Federal government sector and within the top 20 U.S. banks, as well as overseas. Since September 2007, there are over 65 new satisfied enterprise customers.
Sales Contact for NetWitness Corporation NetWitness Sales sales@netwitness.com
500 Grove Street, Suite 300
Herndon, VA 20170
703-889-8950
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