Endace and Cisco in the SoC at RSAC™ 2025

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Endace and Cisco® are co-sponsors of the SOC at RSAC™ 2025: providing SOC services for the conference, and monitoring traffic on the Moscone wireless network for security threats.

Experts in the SOC will be running Cisco Security Cloud, with Cisco Breach Protection Suite, Cisco User Protection Suite, and Cisco Secure Firewall; with Splunk Enterprise Security as the SIEM platform. EndaceProbe will provide always-on packet capture, recording network traffic in real-time.

As a long-time member of the Cisco Security Technical Alliance, our EndaceProbe Analytics Platform integrates with Cisco Firewall, XDR, Secure Network Analytics and Splunk.

Book a Tour of the SoC at RSAC™ 2025

Tours are offered Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at the times listed below and advance registration is highly recommended.  An Expo Pass is all you need to join the tour.

Tour Times:

Tuesday, April 29 – 10:10am, 3:00pm and 4:30pm

Wednesday, April 30 – 10:10am, 3:00pm and 5:00pm

Thursday, May 1 – 10:10am and 1:00pm

Book a SoC Tour

Visit Endace’s Booth at RSAC™ 2025

In addition to being in the SoC, the Endace team is also exhibiting at RSAC™ 2025. Come and see us at Booth #5176, located in the North Hall.

We will be showcasing our highly-scalable, always-on packet capture solutions for private cloud, public cloud and on-prem environments. Come and find out about:

  • The value of Always-on packet capture as a definitive source of evidence
  • Why packets are a such a critical source of truth for cybersecurity and network reliability
  • How to integrate definitive packet-level network history into your SoC and NoC teams’ network security tools for faster, more accurate incident forensics.

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Enter our booth raffle and you could win a pair of Apple Airpods Max headphones (two pairs to be won).

 

Don’t miss PROTECTED:
The Findings Report from the SOC at RSAC™ 2025.

If you have a full Conference Pass, we encourage you to join Cary Wright, Endace VP Product, Jessica Oppenheimer, Cisco’s Director of Security Operations, and Steve Fink, CTO and CISO at Secure Yeti, as they share security observations from the SoC at RSAC™ 2025.

Every year, this is an extremely popular conference session.


Encouraging Women in Tech

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For the past two years, Endace has proudly offered two Women in Tech Scholarships per year to outstanding University of Waikato students,  supporting the future of our industry by encouraging more women to pursue careers in technology.

“Endace is proud to empower young women to succeed in tech,” says Endace CEO, Stuart Wilson.  Two of our past winners (shown in the image ) have participated in our internship program and continue to contribute at Endace while pursuing their studies.  It’s inspiring to see what they’ve accomplished.

 Words from our Winners

Our scholarship recipients have shared their gratitude and experiences:

    • “I’m incredibly grateful for this scholarship. It’s amazing to see a company like Endace committed to supporting women in tech. I’m honoured to have been chosen.” – Emily (Year 1 Winner)
    • “This scholarship has significantly supported my studies, allowing me to graduate without financial worries. Endace’s initiatives are making a real difference in encouraging women to pursue degrees in technology.” – Rafeea (Year 2 Winner)

The four winners have excelled academically and are active, positive members of their student communities.

Looking Ahead

Our winners are excited about their future careers.  Rafeea is passionate about embedded systems and 3D web and VR development.  Year 2 winner, Hannah is heading to Melbourne, Australia to compete in the Formula-SAE Australasia for her honours project, saying, “Winning the Endace Woman in Tech scholarship has been a great opportunity that is allowing me to further my technical ability and life experiences.”

Year 1 scholarship winner Abbie remarked, “Support like this will go a long way to encouraging more women to enter technology.” We look forward to seeing our winners thrive in their careers and are committed to continuing our support for women in tech.

Continuing the Journey

At Endace, we’re passionate about creating opportunities and are committed to helping the next generation of women succeed in tech. We’re excited to keep supporting talented women through our scholarship program and look forward to seeing them make a real impact in the industry.


Winners of the inaugural Endace Women in Tech Scholarship

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The inaugural Endace Women in Technology Scholarship has been awarded to two University of Waikato students: software engineering student Abbie Reid and computer science student Emily McCullagh.

This scholarship, established by Endace in 2022, is part of ongoing efforts to encourage women in the tech industry, with recipients chosen based on their outstanding grades and commitment to supporting future generations of women in technology.

“Endace recognises the need to help empower under-represented groups through education, we are proud to be working with Waikato University to help these talented young women to succeed” says Endace CEO, Stuart Wilson.

Abbie, a third-year Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) student, eagerly embraced the role of lab assistant to foster an inclusive environment and expresses gratitude for the scholarship’s potential, saying, “Support like this will go a long way to encouraging more women in technology.”

Emily, also in her third year, previously worked in administration, supporting departments like Finance, Marketing, and Retail. Her fascination with systems and problem-solving led her to choose to study at Waikato. As a lab demonstrator, she is passionate about supporting women in technology, mentoring younger students, and showcasing their potential. Emily expresses gratitude to Endace for their support: “Scholarships like this help financially but it also helps encourage students to stick out their degrees.”

Stephen Donnelly, Endace CTO was very impressed with the number and high calibre of all the applicants for this scholarship. “Abbie and Emily especially stood out with both their academic excellence and their dedication to furthering Women in Technology.”

As part of the scholarship, Abbie and Emily have the opportunity to secure a work placement with Endace.



Diversity and Inclusion at Endace

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By Garima Bhatia, Test Manager – Appliance QA, Endace


Endace has recently started an exciting initiative which we wanted to share.

We have always been a culturally diverse workplace with people from all over the world representing many different nationalities and cultures. We are proud of this and want to recognize and celebrate the diversity we already have at Endace.  Each of our individuals has unique perspectives, skills, experiences and backgrounds that bring valuable contributions to the organization.

Supporting this diverse set of individuals to feel included is important; so people feel they truly belong to the organization they are working at and can achieve their maximum potential.  For Endace as an innovative organization, this means reaping the rewards of diverse thinking, and a stimulating work environment that leads to a satisfied team with strong collaboration and teamwork.

It is important that diversity is not only accepted, but celebrated, in ways that gives this diverse group of people a strong sense of worth and belonging. Everyone should feel accepted and valued for who they are in order for Endace to build a corporate culture that demonstrably supports and celebrates every individual’s self-expression.

What are we Doing?

Our approach to making diversity at Endace inclusive, by embracing our different mix of people, is a bottom-up approach. Our People team conducted an internal survey, and a series of discussions and presentations, to encourage input from people across the organization. In these sessions, we examined and discussed what diversity means and how acceptance and celebration of diversity go hand-in-hand with inclusion. We discussed how this benefits the business by allowing it to tap into the potential a diverse workforce has to offer, and how it benefits individuals by encouraging their individuality in a productive way.

This process was widely supported across the organization and led to agreement across the board that an active focus on Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) was an important initiative for everyone at Endace.

As our CEO Stuart Wilson said “this initiative is to ensure everyone has an equal voice so the business benefits from the best of the abilities that we have as a diverse team at Endace. I am motivated to give a voice to those who may be reluctant to step forward and I am looking forward to seeing what we achieve together.

The D&I Committee: and Our Voices

D&I can be “in the eye of the beholder”. So our challenge was to gain an organization-wide perspective of what diversity means to everyone at Endace. We needed to understand where we are now and what we want to focus on improving.

We established a community-led group, by calling for volunteers from across Endace, to collect input and ideas from across the organization, that could be implemented in conjunction with the People team. We found we had many people that are enthusiastic about this initiative and who wanted to be part of the group proactively taking steps to better understand and support our team members.

As Sam from the Software team says, “the differences that exist between us all are a strength, not a weakness. The D&I Committee provides a platform for us to celebrate and better understand this.

We had people who wanted to voice opinions on many different issues and were willing to dedicate time and ideas.

As Michael in the Support team said, “being part of Endace’s Diversity & Inclusion team resonates strongly with my personal commitment to breaking down barriers for marginalized and vulnerable communities.  I am passionate about making a positive difference, whether it’s in relation to gender, age, ability, sexuality, or cultural diversity.”

 

One very motivated volunteer, Kate, provided a very perceptive insight; “I believe acceptance of difference makes us stronger and smarter. It is not the diversity that is key, it is the openness to it.

 

We were also fortunate to have a senior leadership team member, John Attala, Endace’s VP of Worldwide Sales, sponsor the initiative as the D&I group leader. John said,

As the son of a first-generation immigrant, our family’s diversity stood out. My parents became leaders in their careers and community and I believe our cultural differences educated our community in a small way. Diversity and inclusion are important to me and I’m excited to be part of the first Endace D&I Committee. I hope together we can help facilitate a workplace that is safe, welcoming and where ideas are freely shared because I believe diversity is the one true thing we all have in common”.

Once assembled, the group was trained by the people team on D&I fundamentals and tasked with identifying focus areas and specific objectives Endace could undertake to ensure D&I are embedded across the organization.

So Far: and What’s Next?

The experience of being in the D&I committee so far has been a unique one. We have identified the focus areas we collectively agreed to work on and identified teams to work on each of these focus areas. These teams are responsible for ensuring the overall group makes progress by firstly building awareness of issues in their specific focus areas and then by identifying actions that will address those issues and ensure diversity is not only accepted but overtly celebrated across the organization.

We have taken our first steps – including having all managers participate in an “unconscious bias” workshop. This workshop helped attendees to understand that biases do exist, how they can identify and become conscious of them, and how to be mindful that these biases don’t get in the way of everyone being treated fairly.

As we move forward, we are driven to actively support our organization becoming a place where individuality is celebrated and everyone has a sense of belonging, of having a valued voice, is accepted and respected, and has opportunities to develop.  Change happens over time, but we know this can be achieved through our commitment to community-led initiatives and the hard work of our D&I Committee.


2021 awards season kicks off with nine new awards for Endace

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Endace Wins 9 New AwardsEndace and the EndaceProbe Analytics Platform have been honored with nine awards in two well-regarded industry awards programs: The Globee 17th Annual 2021 Cyber Security Global Excellence Awards and the 2021 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards. The award categories include Most Innovative Security Hardware, Hot Security Company of the Year, Hot Security Technology of the Year, and Cybersecurity Blogger of the Year. 

From the Globee 17th Annual 2021 Cyber Security Global Excellence Awards, Endace was selected as the winner in the following categories:

  • Grand Trophy Winner
  • Gold Award, Hot Security Company of the Year: Endace
  • Gold Award, Most Innovative Security Hardware of the Year: EndaceProbe Analytics Platform Product Suite and Fusion Partner Program
  • Gold Award, Hot Security Technology of the Year: EndaceProbe Analytics Platform Product Suite
  • Gold Award, Network Detection and Response: EndaceProbe Analytics Platform
  • Gold Award, Incident Analysis and Response Solution: EndaceProbe Analytics Platform Product Suite
  • Silver Award, Network Security and Management: EndaceProbe Analytics Platform with EndaceVision

From the 2021 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards, Endace won two silver awards in:

  • Best CyberSecurity Company, Asia (between 50-99 employees)
  • CyberSecurity Blogger of the Year, Asia (Endace Packet Forensics Files hosted by Michael Morris)

There was strong competition across both awards programs this year and Endace would like to congratulate all this year’s winners and nominees – in particular our partners and fellow winners: Darktrace, Palo Alto Networks and Keysight (Ixia).

It’s great to see such a vibrant community of cybersecurity companies in the market. Our combined contributions are critically important to further improving cyber defense and helping organizations around the world protect critical infrastructure and private data from criminal and nation-state-sponsored attacks.


Network Security and Management Challenges Blog Series – Part 4

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Driving Economic Efficiency in Cyber Defense

Key Research Findings

  • Available budget, freedom to choose the best solutions and platform fatigue are all impacting on the ability of system architects to design and deploy the best solutions to meet the organization’s needs.
  • 78% of system architects reported platform fatigue is a significant challenge with 29% rating the level of challenge as high.
  • More than 90% of respondents reported that the process of acquiring and deploying security, network or application performance platforms is challenging, with almost half reporting that it is either extremely or very challenging.

Most of what’s written about cybersecurity focuses on the mechanics of attacks and defense. But, as recent research shows, the economics of security is just as significant. It’s not just lack of available budget – departments always complain about that – but how they are forced to allocate their budgets.

Currently, security solutions are often hardware-based, which forces organizations into making multiple CAPEX investments – with accompanying complex, slow purchase processes.

More than three-quarters of respondents to the survey reported that “the challenge of constraints caused by CAPEX cycle (e.g. an inability to choose best possible solutions when the need arises) is significant.”Almost half reported being stuck with solutions that have “outlived their usefulness, locked into particular vendors or unable to choose best-of-breed solutions.

Speed of deployment is also a significant challenge for organizations, with more than 50% of respondents reporting that “deploying a new security, network or application performance platform takes six to twelve months or longer.” 

As outlined in the previous post, existing security solutions are expensive, inflexible, hardware-dependent and take too long to deploy or upgrade. The process of identifying a need, raising budget, testing, selecting and deploying hardware-based security and performance monitoring solutions simply takes too long. And the cost is too high.

Contrast this with cyber attackers, who don’t require costly hardware to launch their attacks. They are not hampered by having to negotiate slow, complex purchase and deployment cycles. And often they leverage their target’s own infrastructure for attacks. The truth is that the economics of cybersecurity is broken: with the balance radically favoring attackers at the expense of their victims.

Reshaping the economics of cyberdefense

Companies have a myriad of choices when it comes to possible security, network performance and application performance monitoring solutions. Typically, they deploy many different tools to meet their specific needs. 

As discussed in the previous post, the lack of a common hardware architecture for analytics tools has prevented organizations from achieving the same cost savings and agility in their network security and monitoring infrastructure that virtualization has enabled in other areas of their IT infrastructure. As a result, budgets are stretched, organizations don’t have the coverage they’d like (leading to blindspots in network visibility) and deploying and managing network security and performance monitoring tools is slow, cumbersome and expensive.

Consolidating tools onto a common hardware platform – such as our EndaceProbe – helps organizations overcome many of the economic challenges they face:

  • It lets them reduce their hardware expenditure, resulting in significant CAPEX and OPEX savings. 
  • Reduced hardware expenditure frees up budget that can be directed towards deploying more tools in more places on the network – to remove visibility blind spots – and deploying tools the company needs but couldn’t previously afford.
  • Teams gain the freedom to choose what tools they adopt without being locked into “single-stack” vendor solutions. 
  • Teams can update or replace security and performance monitoring functions by deploying software applications on the existing hardware platform without a rip-and-replace. This significantly reduces cost and enables much faster, more agile deployment.

The cost of the hardware infrastructure needed to protect and manage the networks can also be shared by SecOps, NetOps, DevOps and IT teams, further reducing OPEX and CAPEX costs and facilitating closer cooperation and collaboration between teams.

For architects, a common hardware platform becomes a network element that can be designed into the standard network blueprint – reducing complexity and ensuring visibility across the entire network. And for IT teams responsible for managing the infrastructure it avoids the platform fatigue that currently results from having to manage multiple different hardware appliances from multiple different vendors.

Because analytics functionality is abstracted from the underlying EndaceProbe hardware, that functionality can be changed or upgraded easily, enabling – as we saw in the last post – far more agile deployment and the freedom to deploy analytics tools that best meet the company’s needs rather than being locked into specific vendors’ offerings.

Equally importantly, it extends the useful life of the EndaceProbe hardware too. No longer does hardware have to be replaced in order to upgrade or change analytics functionality. And as network speeds and loads increase, older EndaceProbes can be redeployed to edge locations and replaced at the network core with newer models offering higher-speeds and greater storage density. This ensures companies get maximum return on their hardware investment.

Lastly, their modular architecture allows multiple, physical EndaceProbes to be stacked or grouped to form centrally-managed logical EndaceProbes capable of scaling to network speeds of hundreds of gigabits-per-second and storing petabytes of network history.

A Final Word

This blog series has looked at the three key challenges – Visibility, Agility and Economic Efficiency (this post) – that enterprises report they face in protecting their networks and applications from cyber threats and costly performance issues. These challenges are interrelated: it is only by addressing all three that organizations can achieve the level of confidence and certainty necessary to effectively protect their critical assets.


Endace Honored with Ten Accolades in
Security Industry Awards Sweep

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Last month was officially our most successful month for awards ever! Maybe it’s got something to do with it being February in a Leap Year?

Whatever the reason, we’re thrilled to report that Endace received no less than ten industry awards last week, winning three top spots at the Cyber Defense Magazine InfoSec Awards and a further seven awards at the Info Security Product Guide Global Excellence Awards.


Endace's Cary Wright (left) and Michael Morris (right) accept the award for "Best Product, Packet Capture Platform" from Cyber Defense Magazine
Endace’s Cary Wright (left) and Michael Morris (right) accept the award for “Best Product, Packet Capture Platform” from Cyber Defense Magazine

CYBER DEFENSE MAGAZINE (CDM) is the industry’s leading electronic information security magazine. Rolling out the red carpet at RSA in San Francisco this week, CDM’s panel of judges voted the EndaceProbe Analytics Platform Product Suite best in class for the following categories:

  • Most Innovative, Network Security and Management
  • Best Product, Packet Capture Platform
  • Hot Company, Security Investigation Platform

INFO SECURITY PRODUCTS GUIDE is the industry’s leading information security research and advisory guide. The awards panel, which includes 35 judges from around the world, recognized Endace in the following categories

  • Grand Trophy Winner
  • Best Security Hardware (Gold): EndaceProbe Analytics Platform Product Suite
  • Most Innovative Security Hardware of the Year (Gold): EndaceProbe Analytics Platform Product Suite and Fusion Partner Program
  • Network Security and Management (Gold): EndaceProbe Analytics Platform with EndaceVision
  • Critical Infrastructure Security (Gold): EndaceProbe Analytics Platform Product Suite
  • Best Security Solution (Silver): EndaceProbe Analytics Platform Product Suite and Fusion Partner Program
  • Network Visibility, Security & Testing (Silver): EndaceProbe Analytics Platform with EndaceVision

We’re looking forward to attending the Info Security Product Guide Awards 2020 presentation ceremony and dinner in October to celebrate the Grand Trophy win and the six other awards.


We’d like to extend a big thank you to the judging panels for both award programs. And congratulations to fellow 2020 winners including Endace Fusion Partners Cisco, Ixia (a Keysight company), Darktrace and Gigamon.