Software That Helps You Sniff Security Violations and Threats

There are two ways in which you can spot the problems you might have with your network. You can either start probing things and test vulnerabilities from a black-hatter's perspective and do a perimeter search to see what might go wrong and, all sort of stuff like that; oooor, you can deploy a program that would do it for you.

NetWitness just launched Next Generation Network Monitoring Solution. It will monitor traffic and, of course, analyze it. After doing that, it will tell the user what is wrong on his/her network. Now when you know what vulnerabilities and flaws you're facing it's a lot easier to make a more secure network, thus limiting data loss and properly reacting to threats.

"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."
For more information about this program and the vendor, you may visit their official website.