Posted by Jody Ma on Wed, Apr 14, 2010 @ 10:25 AM
Atlanta, March 23, 2010 - Lancope, Inc., the leader in NetFlowTM collection and analysis and the provider of the StealthWatch® System for flow-based network performance and security monitoring, today introduced Data Loss Alarming in StealthWatch which alerts organizations of potential data extrusions regardless of data format, protocol or encryption technique. The new feature enhances StealthWatch's ability to protect organizations against data leakage and improves end-to-end visibility across physical and virtual networks.
Recent studies show that the average organizational cost of a single data breach is close to $7M and rising[1]. Recognizing that data loss prevention is a top priority for most organizations, Lancope developed the alarm, which detects anomalous data transfer from any point on the network to the Internet. Specifically, StealthWatch quickly identifies unusual network behavior indicative of data loss and provides details about the users involved, the amount of data transferred, the services used, how long the communications lasted and if it was a recurring event.
StealthWatch is the only solution that reduces data loss and scales to monitor security, network performance, and virtual operations for global networks - all from a single platform. The StealthWatch Data Loss Alarm feature works with any data format or protocol, including unstructured data schemes commonly used to store employee identification numbers and private health information. Other data loss prevention tools require packet-level visibility to detect employee identification, credit card and social security numbers leaving the network. This requires the deployment of expensive probes throughout the network, as well as resource-intensive manual configuration and maintenance. Unlike traditional DLP tools, StealthWatch neither sits inline on the network nor requires probes. Rather, StealthWatch collects and analyzes flow telemetry to cost-effectively deliver visibility across physical and virtual networks. Extending visibility down to the user identity level, StealthWatch connects network activity with individual user names, not just IP addresses, to significantly improve audit controls for regulatory compliance.
Offering organizations increased control of their networks, StealthWatch enables immediate mitigation actions when a breach is detected, from triggering a deeper analysis to blocking a specific transaction from completing to provide time for investigation. All baselines and blocking actions can be easily modified, including exceptions for traffic amount thresholds.
"Data loss prevention is top of mind for many organizations, especially when the costs associated with a breach continue to rise and regulators impose stiff penalties for losing customer records," said Adam Powers, CTO of Lancope. "We are responding to market demand for a scalable, cost-effective solution by introducing this Data Loss Alarm feature in StealthWatch. With its award-winning NetFlow analysis and detailed visibility across the network, StealthWatch is ideally suited to detect and prevent data breaches-without expensive probes, and time-consuming configuration and maintenance."
For more information about how StealthWatch supports Data Loss Prevention (DLP), visit http://www2.lancope.com/l/2382/2010-03-22/153DP/2382/21977/Data_Loss_Prevention_print.pdf.
Availability
The Data Loss Alarm feature in StealthWatch is now available as a free upgrade for existing customers. Current customers can contact the Lancope Customer Care Support Desk for upgrades at support@lancope.com. For more information, contact Lancope at sales@lancope.com.
About Lancope
Lancope®, Inc. is the leader in NetFlow collection and analysis and the provider of the StealthWatch® System for flow-based network performance and security monitoring. StealthWatch delivers unmatched scalability, best-in-class problem resolution work flow, and the industry's only unified platform for managing network, security and virtual operations. Delivering unified visibility across physical and virtual networks, StealthWatch eliminates network blind spots and reduces total network and security management costs. Both OPSEC and Common Criteria-certified, StealthWatch monitors the networks of Global 2000 organizations, academic institutions and government entities worldwide. Lancope also partners with fellow best-of-breed solution providers through its Technology Alliance Program, which includes Cisco Systems, Brocade, Blue Coat, VMware, IBM Tivoli, Check Point, TippingPoint, ArcSight and A10 Networks. Lancope is a privately held, venture-backed company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. For more information, visit http://www.lancope.com/.
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[1]Ponemon Study Shows the Cost of a Data Breach Continues to Increase; Jan. 25, 2010; PR Newswire
Posted by Alicia Beuke on Mon, Mar 22, 2010 @ 12:45 PM
Atlanta, March 22, 2010 - Lancope, Inc.,the leader in NetFlowTM collection and analysis and the provider of the StealthWatch® System for flow-based network performance and security monitoring, today announced that it will host two one-hour virtual town hall discussions entitled "Ask the Expert: Your NetFlow Questions - Answered!" on Wednesday, March 24, 2010. Register for this event at http://www.lancope.com/news/webinars/.%20
WHAT: Ask the Expert: Your NetFlow Questions - Answered!
WHEN: 10:00 a.m. ET and 2:00 p.m. ET on Wednesday, March 24, 2010
REGISTER: http://www.lancope.com/news/webinars/ Whether NetFlow newbie or experienced NetFlow Ninja, all levels of NetFlow familiarity are invited to participate in this question-driven webinar about leveraging NetFlow and other flow telemetry for network performance and security monitoring. Topics will include enabling flows on routers and switches, best practices, tips and tricks, optimization techniques as well as the current or future power of NetFlow. Registrants are encouraged to submit questions in advance of the live webcast.
About Lancope
Lancope®, Inc. is the leader in NetFlow collection and analysis and the provider of the StealthWatch® System for flow-based network performance and security monitoring. StealthWatch delivers unmatched scalability, best-in-class problem resolution work flow, and the industry's only unified platform for managing network, security and virtual operations. Delivering unified visibility across physical and virtual networks, StealthWatch eliminates network blind spots and reduces total network and security management costs. Both OPSEC and Common Criteria-certified, StealthWatch monitors the networks of Global 2000 organizations, academic institutions and government entities worldwide. Lancope also partners with fellow best-of-breed solution providers through its Technology Alliance Program, which includes Cisco Systems, Brocade, Blue Coat, VMware, IBM Tivoli, Check Point, TippingPoint, ArcSight and A10 Networks. Lancope is a privately held, venture-backed company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. For more information, visit http://www.lancope.com/. # # # ©2010 Lancope, Inc. All rights reserved. Lancope, StealthWatch, and other trademarks are registered or unregistered trademarks of Lancope, Inc. All other trademarks are properties of their respective owners. Media Contact: Jody Ma Kissling 770-225-6513 or jma@lancope.com
Posted by Alicia Beuke on Tue, Mar 09, 2010 @ 12:45 PM
ATLANTA, March 9, 2010 - Lancope, Inc., the leader in NetFlow collection and analysis and provider of the StealthWatch® System for flow-based network performance and security monitoring, today announced that Network Products Guide, the industry's leading information technology research and advisory guide, has named StealthWatch the Best in NetFlow and Best in Network Visibility for the 2010 Product Innovation Awards. Previously honored Best in NetFlow in 2008, StealthWatch was also twice awarded Best in Network Behavior Analysis and once for Best in Virtual Visibility. This annually venerated award recognizes and honors innovative and ground-breaking technologies. To read more about this product innovation, visit www.networkproductsguide.com/innovations/.
Unlike traditional monitoring technologies that require extensive deployments, StealthWatch pioneers the collection and analysis of flow telemetry - NetFlow, sFlow and others - from routers and switches to deliver cost-effective network visibility, improve security postures and optimize network performance. StealthWatch enables security and network operations teams to remediate incidents within minutes, reducing the overall cost of managing and protecting networks. A proven solution, StealthWatch now monitors over 45 million hosts across hundreds of enterprise and government organizations worldwide.
"Once again Lancope is awarded for developing market-defining NetFlow collection and analysis solutions that deliver end-to-end network visibility," said Harland LaVigne, president and CEO of Lancope. "Unlike traditional technologies, StealthWatch uses flow telemetry to provide a more accurate, cost-effective approach for managing, securing and optimizing network performance and availability. This latest award further validates Lancope's continued leadership in the NetFlow market."
About Lancope
Lancope®, Inc. is theleader in NetFlow collection and analysis and the provider of the StealthWatch® System for flow-based network performance and security monitoring. Delivering unified visibility across physical and virtual networks, StealthWatch eliminates network blind spots and reduces total network and security management costs. Both OPSEC and Common Criteria-certified, StealthWatch monitors the networks of Global 2000 organizations, academic institutions and government entities worldwide. Lancope also partners with fellow best-of-breed solution providers through its Technology Alliance Program, which includes Cisco Systems, Brocade, Blue Coat, VMware, IBM Tivoli, Check Point, TippingPoint, ArcSight and A10 Networks. Lancope is a privately held, venture-backed company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. For more information, visit http://www.lancope.com/.
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©2010 Lancope, Inc. All rights reserved. Lancope, StealthWatch, and other trademarks are registered or unregistered trademarks of Lancope, Inc. All other trademarks are properties of their respective owners.
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Posted by Alicia Beuke on Wed, May 27, 2009 @ 11:33 AM
ATLANTA, May 27, 2009 – Lancope®, Inc., the provider of the StealthWatch® System, the most widely used network behavior analysis (NBA) solution for unified visibility across physical and virtual networks, announced today that Network Products Guide, the industry’s leading publication on information technologies and solutions, has named StealthWatch a winner of the 2009 Best Products and Services Award. This respected annual award honors products and services that represent the rapidly changing needs and interests of the end-users of technology worldwide. Earlier this year, Lancope was recognized as the 2009 Best Network Security by SC Magazine Awards Europe and received the 2009 Global Excellence Awards in Virtual Security, Network Visibility and Network Behavior Analysis from Info Security Products Guide.
StealthWatch is the first flow-based solution to combine powerful network performance monitoring with real-time behavior-based anomaly detection to deliver unified network visibility across physical and virtual networks. StealthWatch’s patented flow-based approach eliminates network blind spots and reduces total network and security management costs. A proven solution, StealthWatch now protects over 40 million hosts worldwide and is deployed at hundreds of enterprise organizations across a variety of industry verticals, including Financial Services, Manufacturing, Federal Government, Healthcare, Energy and Higher Education.
“Increased end-user awareness and ongoing advances in technology are helping shape better products and services.” says Rake Narang, editor-n-chief, Network Products Guide. “StealthWatch’s innovative approach to analyzing VM-to-VM communications to deliver complete visibility of the virtual network is revolutionizing the way enterprises view and manage network and security operations.”
“Once more StealthWatch is recognized for innovation in network and security and reflects Lancope’s ability to anticipate customers’ needs by addressing emerging technologies like virtualization,” said Harland LaVigne, president and CEO of Lancope. “This award not only validates our flow-based methodology to resolving the visibility challenges that virtualization brings, but also solidifies our leadership of the Network Behavior Analysis market.
Discover how StealthWatch delivers complete visibility into security, network, user and application activity across the virtual network at http://www.lancope.com/products/stealthwatch-flow-sensor.
About Lancope
Lancope®, Inc. is the provider of the StealthWatch® System, the most widely used network behavior analysis (NBA) solution that combines flow-based anomaly detection and network performance monitoring. Delivering unified visibility across physical and virtual networks, StealthWatch eliminates network blind spots and reduces total network and security management costs. StealthWatch streamlines security, network and virtual monitoring into one process, reduces time and resources, and eliminates the costs and complexity associated with non-integrated point products. Both OPSEC and Common Criteria-certified, StealthWatch received the Global Excellence Award in NBA for the past three consecutive years. Defending the networks of Global 2000 organizations, academic institutions and government entities, StealthWatch protects hundreds of enterprise customers worldwide, more than all direct competitors combined. Lancope also partners with fellow best-of-breed solution providers through its Technology Alliance Program, which includes Cisco Systems, Brocade, Blue Coat, VMware, IBM Tivoli, Check Point, TippingPoint, ArcSight and A10 Networks. Lancope is a privately held, venture-backed company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. For more information, visit www.lancope.com.
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©2009 Lancope, Inc. All rights reserved. Lancope, StealthWatch, and other trademarks are registered or unregistered trademarks of Lancope, Inc. All other trademarks are properties of their respective owners. StealthWatch is covered by U.S. Patent Nos. 7,290,283; 7,185,368; 7,475,426 and other U.S. and foreign patents pending.
Posted by Alicia Beuke on Mon, Jan 26, 2009 @ 11:37 AM
SUNNYVALE, Calif., January 26, 2009 - Blue Coat Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BCSI), the leader in WAN Optimization and Secure Web Gateway, today announced that Lancope®, the provider of the StealthWatch® System - the most widely used Network Behavior Analysis (NBA) and response solution, has joined the Blue Coat Technology Integration Partner program to enhance the application intelligence provided by Blue Coat® PacketShaper® appliances with behavioral analysis to further improve end user experience. The Blue Coat and Lancope solution combines an application view of the network with a host-centric view, providing enterprises with the intelligence they need to optimize applications and improve business processes.
Limited, minimally integrated views of network usage, performance and host integrity, typically make it difficult to diagnose the source or root cause of a network incident, significantly delaying response time. Together, Blue Coat PacketShaper appliances and the Lancope StealthWatch System provide a comprehensive view into the network with advanced analysis that gives enterprises the tools they need to align application performance and end user experience with business processes.
"With PacketShaper appliances, we know which applications are on our network and can set bandwidth limits accordingly to enforce acceptable usage policies" said Mike Goodnow, senior network engineer at Concord Hospital, a New Hampshire-based healthcare company that is using the solution to gain a comprehensive view of applications and host information in a single console. "StealthWatch extends the benefits of PacketShaper by using the information from the appliances to rapidly troubleshoot network issues and pinpoint problem segments, ensuring maximum network availability."
By utilizing historical and trend analysis data, the Blue Coat and Lancope solution provides IT managers with the information they need to optimize network as well as to detect anomalies, zero-day security threats and application policy violations. Additionally, the solution facilitates forensic analysis and simplifies troubleshooting. The combination of Lancope's StealthWatch network behavioral analysis and the application visibility and control of Blue Coat PacketShaper appliances provides a window into host and user network activity, bandwidth utilization and application usage across the distributed enterprise network.
"Increasingly, distributed enterprises require more intelligence and visibility into the applications running on their networks and a more efficient way to analyze the information to better align network resources with business goals," said Dave Asprey, vice president of technology and corporate development at Blue Coat Systems."By coupling the intelligence of PacketShaper appliances with the behavioral analysis of StealthWatch, enterprises gain a valuable set of tools that will help them to further optimize their networks and improve application performance."
Blue Coat PacketShaper appliances can automatically discover more than 650 applications and can track up to 2,048 classes or instances of each application. PacketShaper appliances also allow enterprises to monitor, in real-time, the performance of more than 100 statistics about each of those application instances, including bandwidth usage, end user response times and key troubleshooting stats. By building a profile of each application instance, PacketShaper appliances provide enterprises with a view into the end user experience.
Lancope's StealthWatch System continuously monitors, collects and analyzes flow data with rich application knowledge from Blue Coat PacketShaper appliances to build and maintain a behavioral model of applications, systems and users. StealthWatch constantly monitors the flow data and compares it to the established model, looking at anomalies and isolating known and unknown threats at both network and host levels that may affect the availability of critical applications. By leveraging the flow data, enterprises can create and enforce application use policies and best practices.
"Flow-based behavioral profiling provides a low cost, low maintenance approach to optimizing network performance," said Adam Powers, chief technology officer at Lancope."StealthWatch further extends the application analysis of PacketShaper appliances to provide enterprises with a holistic, real-time view of user behavior across the network environment from Layer 2 to Layer 7."
Learn more about how the joint solution provides unified application and host visibility for security and network operations at http://lancope.web8.hubspot.com/downloads/BlueCoat-LancopePartnerBrief.pdf.
The Blue Coat Technology Integration Partner Program is designed to promote solutions that help organizations build a flexible and scalable application infrastructure. By partnering with best-in-class vendors to deliver interoperable solutions, Blue Coat offers customers a wide range of options for comprehensive Secure Web Gateway and WAN optimization deployments.
About Lancope
Lancope®, Inc. is the provider of the StealthWatch® System, the most widely used network behavior analysis (NBA) and response solution that unifies flow-based anomaly detection and network performance monitoring to prevent costly downtime, repair and loss of reputation. StealthWatch streamlines security and network operations into one process, reduces time and resources, and eliminates the costs and complexity associated with non-integrated point products. Both OPSEC and Common Criteria-certified, StealthWatch received the 2008 Best in NetFlow Analysis Award and the 2007-2008 Global Excellence Awards in NBA. Defending the networks of Global 2000 organizations, academic institutions and government entities, StealthWatch protects over 425 enterprise customers worldwide, including 17 U.S. Federal agencies, more than all direct competitors combined.
Lancope is a privately held, venture-backed company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. For more information, visit www.lancope.com.
About Blue Coat Systems
Blue Coat secures Web communications and accelerates business applications across the distributed enterprise. Blue Coat's family of appliances and client-based solutions - deployed in branch offices, Internet gateways, end points, and data centers- provide intelligent points of policy-based control enabling IT organizations to optimize security and accelerate performance between users and applications. Blue Coat has installed more than 40,000 appliances worldwide. Blue Coat is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and can be reached at (408) 220-2200 or http://www.bluecoat.com/.
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