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
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:
