Archive for April, 2010

10,000 DAG cards and 1000 Probes. An important milestone for Endace

We’re delighted to announce that we’ve just sold our 10,000th DAG card and our 1000th Probe.  We’ve been selling our Cards and Probes to Government Agencies, Telecos and Large Enterprises all over the world since 2001 and, just like the networks we monitor, the business just keeps going faster.

Mike Riley, our Chief Executive, puts the rapid rate of adoption down to “the market’s growing realisation that 100% guaranteed packet capture is the foundation layer on which the best monitoring, surveillance, security and latency measurement systems are built, and that without a completely accurate baseline organisations are realising that they are just guessing”

Anatomy of a Conficker Infection

Rob O’Neil published a great article last week in Computerworld entitled ‘Anatomy of a Conficker Outbreak: Waikato District Health Board

The Conficker outbreak actually happened right at the end of last year and we tweeted it at the time,  but its only now that full facts behind the outbreak are public.

The story is a another classic case of an organisation only being as secure as the least secure point in the network.  The report cited faulty software, aging systems, complexity and a lack of full network control as contributing factors.  The outbreak caused some areas of the DHB to be shut down for two days. And the system responsible for the outbreak (the parking system) is still quarantined from the main network.

Leaky Ministry.

An article in the New York Times Science section published earlier this week (5th April) caught our attention as it powerfully illustrates the need for capture, analysis and intrusion detection on government networks

The article exposes the activities of a China-based computer espionage gang that has been stealing highly sensitive information from the Indian Defence Ministry. The report was issued by researchers at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Canada and makes fascinating reading for a whole variety of reasons.