Endace Packet Forensics Files: Episode #4

Original Entry by : Michael Morris

Michael talks to Matt Chase, Director of Cortex Alliances for Palo Alto Networks

By Michael Morris, Director of Global Business Development, Endace


Michael Morris, Director of Global Business Development, Endace

Don’t miss our latest episode of Endace Packet Forensics Files vidcast series with this week’s guest, Matt Chase, Director of Cortex Alliances for Palo Alto Networks.

Matt shares his insights into how automation and orchestration is changing the game for SecOps teams and improving security analysts’ efficiency and accuracy. Matt talks about some of the best practices companies should think about when evaluating, adopting and implementing an orchestration platform.

Finally, Matt shares where he thinks things are headed next in security automation so you can plan your security strategy.

Other episodes in the Secure Networks video/audio podcast series are available here.


Wireshark without the wait!

Original Entry by : Cary Wright

With Wireshark on EndaceProbe you can quickly search hundreds of Terabytes of packet data to analyze important packets in Wireshark

By Cary Wright, VP Product Management, Endace


Cary Wright, VP Product Management, Endace

Who can afford to wait when responding to a critical security incident? With Wireshark now hosted on EndaceProbe we have eliminated all the waiting around to see packet evidence. Reviewing captured network history will often reveal vital evidence needed to remediate a threat, evidence that may have been wiped from system logs.

Unfortunately, if you’re using Wireshark on your desktop to view that evidence you know it can be a very slow process. Just downloading a multi-GB capture file from your capture appliance can take a while, and then loading it up on your desktop can also be a lengthy process.  All this waiting and context switching is a productivity hit for you and your team– not to mention a data privacy risk if those PCAPs are sitting on your desktop or laptop.

I’m excited to say there will be no more waiting around to view packets with our newly released OSm 7.0 software! A full instance of native Wireshark is now hosted right on each EndaceProbe appliance so you can review captured network traffic quickly and securely. We have also included WireShark on each Endace InvestigationManager instance, allowing you to search over up to 100 EndaceProbes in parallel and present a single merged packet view inside Wireshark.

There is no need to download large PCAPs over the network, and no need to store them insecurely on your desktop PC or laptop to view in Wireshark. Viewing network packet captures is now lightning fast because EndaceProbe high-performance hardware serves the packets from the local RAID directly to a Wireshark instance hosted on the EndaceProbe.

If you’re a regular Wireshark user you will know that Wireshark doesn’t handle large PCAPs very well, just loading a 1GB file can take forever let alone a 100TB pcap. With Wireshark on EndaceProbe you can now quickly search hundreds of Terabytes of packet data to view or analyze important packets in Wireshark. The workflow is much faster and more secure. And Wireshark power users will be glad to know it’s a full Wireshark instance with all the useful features and decodes that you’ve come to know and love.

Here’s a sneak preview:

Wireshark on EndaceProbe with OSm7
With OSm 7.0, now you can go directly from EndaceVision to Wireshark hosted on EndaceProbes – without having to download large pcap trace files.

Endace Packet Forensics Files: Episode #3

Original Entry by : Michael Morris

Michael talks to Dave Burns, Senior Director of Alliances at Gigamon

By Michael Morris, Director of Global Business Development, Endace


Michael Morris, Director of Global Business Development, Endace

Catch our latest episode of Endace Packet Forensics Files vidcast series with this week’s guest Dave Burns, Senior Director of Alliances for Gigamon.

Dave talks about how customers are adapting to the monitoring and security challenges in the new remote workforce environment under Covid-19.

He shares his insights into things companies are doing to get the most out of their tools and be agile and proactive to stay on top of both performance needs and security threats.

Finally, Dave discusses how Ops teams are adapting their environments to support remote workforces and how they’re dealing with new loads and applications that the network wasn’t originally architected for.

Other episodes in the Secure Networks video/audio podcast series are available here.


APT’s are the New Cybersecurity Battle Front

Original Entry by : Michael Morris

By Michael Morris, Director of Global Business Development, Endace


Michael Morris, Director of Global Business Development, Endace

Join IBM, Gigamon and Endace
Tuesday, July 21, 2020

Don’t miss this informative webinar hosted by DataBreach Today.

Join Michael Morris (Endace), Russell Warren (IBM) and Martyn Crew (Gigamon) as they discuss strategies for detecting and protecting against APT’s.

Register Now

Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) are the new battlefront for cybersecurity as threat actors combine multiple malware infiltration techniques to gain the most intelligence, cause the most damage, and ultimately reap the most financial rewards.  APT’s are the most sophisticated of threats, often difficult to detect and potentially lurking in your infrastructure for months or years before the real attack. Their motivations are political or financial, with a goal of maximum impact.

SecOps teams that are continually inundated with alerts and alarms don’t have time to connect the dots to realize some alarms point to APTs that are gaining a foothold. The sooner an APT can be identified and contained, the better the chance of minimizing the financial loss or brand damage your company experiences as a result.  This is easier said than done because skilled bad actors are constantly trying to cover their tracks, mask their existence, and hide the level of access they have gained and data they have collected.

Three pillars are key to effectively finding, containing, and mitigating APTs.  The first pillar is having visibility into everything that’s happening on your network. Getting the right network traffic to the right tools, including safely decrypting any TLS traffic, is critical for full visibility into threatening activity on the network. Other functions, such as deduplication, application filtering, and load-balancing traffic to multiple tools, are also important for an effective security stack.

The second pillar is implementing AI-based security analytics across all security-related telemetry data including Network, Endpoint, Application and Security logs. Bringing all this data together in one place enables the organization to create “baselines” of what is “normal behavior” versus “suspicious activity”. Leading analytics platforms can provide a single, correlated view of threatening activity and leverage integrations with third-party tools that accelerate the incident response process for SecOps teams.

The third pillar is recording enterprise-wide network history for in-depth investigations during incident response.  Many APTs implement wipers to erase evidence of their existence and cover their tracks, including modifying system logs, authentication records and other sources of evidence. However, bad actors can’t hide when enterprises implement continuous network traffic recording.  Recorded network history lets you see exactly what’s happening on the network so you can investigate and defend against even the most well-masked security threats. It provides tamper-proof evidence that lets teams understand the full extent of a threat including the ability to see into payloads that may have been collected and exfiltrated.

Join us on the webinar on July 21st to hear more. Register here.