Category: Network visibility

Securing the Evidence of Network Threat Propagation

Original Entry by : Matt Walmsley

“Spot the bad guys, stop the bad guys,” are rational and valid goals when it comes to securing your network. In fact, many organisations commit the majority of their security resources and investment to defense and detection, often by deploying automated technologies and solutions. But by their very nature, such solutions focus on protecting against known vulnerabilities and threats, have little context of your own network and can’t be a complete security solution.

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Going for the Gold with Next Generation EndaceDAG Data Capture Cards

Original Entry by : Rick Trujillo

Okay, I admit it I am a big sports fan, and just like many of you, I enjoy watching great competitions, unlike this year’s Super Bowl. That is unless of course  you’re a Seahawks fan. But every two years, we get treated to the Olympic Games. Whether they are the winter or summer games, the excitement and competition of each event include outcomes determined by fractions of a second. The Olympic judges have the benefit of precise timing equipment and instant replay to make decision on scoring each athlete. They are well aware that the accuracy of this equipment can be the difference between gold, silver or bronze, or maybe missing the podium altogether, not to mention national pride.

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How to Keep Sochi From Sucking Up Bandwidth

Original Entry by : Mike Heumann

The Sochi Winter Olympics are officially underway, and as you may have seen, NBC will once again be providing viewers access to live streaming in a multitude of mediums. On the NBC Olympics page, computer users can enter their cable or digital television provider personal user name and password and watch live video of the events. Mobile viewers can also download the free NBC Live Extra App. The iPhone, Droid and iPad app will have live and recorded events, and on demand HD video.  And for the first time, NBC Universal will stream video on Facebook as part of a partnership deal with the social media giant.

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Let it (Net)Flow…

Original Entry by : Matt Walmsley

NetFlow as a network monitoring and statics technology is not new. To make it work, you need to sample the network and generate NetFlow records, which are sent to a NetFlow collector software application for analysis. NetFlow has been widely adopted and many organisations have invested time and money in learning how to use NetFlow tools to help their network operations teams understand how their network is performing and what is creating fluctuations in traffic.

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Starting 2014 with a bang (and a new EndaceProbe release)!

Original Entry by : Endace

The beginning of any new year is the perfect time to build upon the positive momentum of its predecessor and what better way to start than with the new EndaceProbe™ Network Recorder EP5.1.3 release which does exactly that!

Whilst there’s too much to cover in this blog alone, I’ve focused on some of the key additions to our network visibility tool EndaceVision ™ to give a flavour of the new capabilities that this release brings.

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Standing Up for Security

Original Entry by : Matt Walmsley

Earlier this month, I enjoyed some time working with LAN Assistans, our Nordic partner, as we co-exhibited at Nordic IT Security 2013 in Stockholm, Sweden. As part of our participation package, we had a short “open mic” session over lunch to talk about our security topic of choice.  Being stripped of my familiar presentation support aids like PowerPoint slides and asked to just stand up and talk really focused my mind (and increased my adrenaline levels!).

I often hear our team talk about our network recording and visualization solutions’ technical innovations, performance and features. In truth, Endace solutions have grown up from a DNA of engineering excellence, so it’s not so surprising that we love talking about our great technology! But for this open mic session, I thought I’d take a different approach and think about what our solutions enable our customers to do…here is a snippet of my “open mic” session:

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Propelling Applications Forward with Network Visibility and Agility: Ecosystem Member for Cisco ACI

Original Entry by : Rick Trujillo

We use technology in our everyday lives without a thought of how that content is delivered.  We conduct credit card transaction over a smartphone app for taxi fare, and stream live sporting events like the World Series not just to our television sets but to our smartphones, tablets and PCs. We connect to the corporate VPN while in mid-air over the Atlantic with an expectation that it should be seamless.

Innovation in technology continues to propel us forward from the physical to the virtual world. Server, storage and network virtualization, along with the cloud, has made it easier for the workforce and applications to be agile and mobile. Keeping applications and people connected is vital for any businesses to operate and generate revenue streams.

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Introducing the Fusion Connector for Splunk; Ideal for NetOps and SecOps Teams

Original Entry by : Barry Shaw

Network operations (NetOps) and security operations (SecOps) teams can now take advantage of our Endace Fusion Connector for Splunk, which will dramatically lower time-to-resolution (TTR) for network issues that typically take days to resolve in the absence of readily available packet data.  This Connector (available here on splunkbase) easily installs into any 5.x Splunk deployment and provides a seamless bridge between logs and packets.

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