It’s been a great start to the year for Endace, with a triple win at Info Security Products Guide 2019 Global Excellence Awards.

The EndaceProbe Series 9200 was announced as a Gold Winner in the Best Security Hardware Product (New or Updated Version) category, Silver Winner in the Security Investigation category, and Bronze Winner in Network Security and Management category.

The global awards, now in its 15_th year, recognize cybersecurity and information technology vendors with advanced, ground-breaking products, solutions, and services that are helping set the bar higher for others in all areas of security and technologies.

The new 9200 Series is the latest model EndaceProbe which has a significant increase in capability; setting new industry benchmarks for speed, density and storage capacity. By introducing built-in hardware compression and patented Smart Truncation_TM Endace has quadrupled the storage capacity, doubled the sustained recording speed and tripled the hosting capacity of this model compared to previous models – resulting in the world’s first petabyte network recorder in a single, 4-RU footprint.

“We are extremely proud that our EndaceProbe 9200 Series Analytics Platform has been recognized as a winner by Info Security Products Guide,” said Stuart Wilson, CEO of Endace. “And to receive not just one award but three, amongst such fantastic company, is truly tremendous.”

“This success is a direct result of our relentless drive to stay customer-focused and make packet capture affordable for all enterprises, and above all a fantastic effort from a very talented team here at Endace. The awards further validate our commitment to our customers and their security needs and to the fantastic collaborative relationship we have with our Fusion Partners. It was great to see two of these partners – Darktrace and Ixia – also recognised in these awards: congratulations team.”

The EndaceProbe Analytics Platform allows analysts to capture, store, and analyze petabytes of Network History in real-time.

By going back-in-time, analysts can search recorded network traffic and find the precise “needle-in-the-haystack” packets that relate to a security threat, breach or outage, and quickly and accurately reconstruct exactly what took place.

InvestigationManager, released as part of OSm 6.5 for Endace appliances, allows analysts to conduct searches in seconds across petabytes of distributed Network History recorded by the EndaceProbe Analytics Platforms on their network.

Designed for conducting centralized, network-wide investigations, InvestigationManager is built for speed and efficiency and maintains the same ultra-fast response times whether it’s searching a single EndaceProbe or multiple EndaceProbes simultaneously. It does this by parallelizing search and data-mining across all the EndaceProbes being searched, simultaneously.

InvestigationManager is a standalone virtual server application that has a no-cost license. Multiple instances of InvestigationManager can be deployed as needed to manage or control access to Network History by region, network segment, job function or security clearance level.

Most organizations are overwhelmed by alerts, and 93% are unable to triage all relevant threats. On average, organizations are unable to sufficiently investigate 25% of their alerts.

(McAfee Lab’s Dec 2016 Quarterly Threat Report)

Organizations everywhere are flooded with alerts and many security teams are drowning under the deluge.

So what can security teams do to get ahead of this flood of alerts and keep their heads above water?

We posed that question – and others – to Cisco’s Alliances and Integrations Manager, Doug Hurd.

Watch this short video to hear what he had to say about the value of full packet data and why it is such a powerful complement to Cisco Firepower and Stealthwatch and how integrating Endace’s Network History can help security teams resolve alerts faster and more accurately.

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Well it’s that time of year again. It seems like such a short time ago we were at Black Hat USA, and already Black Hat Europe is here again.

Black Hat Europe, taking place from the 3^rd to 6^th December, brings together more than 2,000 InfoSec professionals for networking, training and briefings. As a silver sponsor and exhibitor at this year’s event, we are looking forward to engaging again with the Black Hat cybersecurity community—including our Fusion partners, and fellow sponsors, Darktrace and Splunk – and seeing what’s new.

Cyber Skills Shortage: the perennial challenge

One of the interesting things about sponsoring Black Hat in different regions is seeing the common themes that emerge.

At Black Hat USA, back in August at Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas there was much discussion about what we, as an industry, can do to combat the extreme shortage of skilled cyber professionals.

This is perhaps not surprising, given Black Hat’s strong focus on practical skills building, training and workshops. But it was interesting to talk to attendees about the challenges that this shortage of skilled people is causing, and what tools and strategies they’re implementing to help address those challenges.

A key theme was how tools like AI can help to reduce the burden on overworked analysts, leaving them free to focus on high-priority threats, and on proactive, rather than reactive, response. We talked to a number of attendees about why packet capture is such an ideal complement to AI tools because it provides the context that enables security teams to quickly prioritize, investigate and respond to the threats that their AI-based tools detect.

It will be interesting to see what attendees in London have to say about how their companies are addressing the cyber skills shortages in Europe.

What we’ll be talking about

We’ll be talking about our recently launched 9200 Series EndaceProbe Analytics Platform, the world’s first Petabyte Network Recording appliance.

We’ll also be showing how the unique architecture of the EndaceFabric allows customers to connect multiple EndaceProbes together to form single logical stacks of probes with multi-petabyte storage capacity that can monitor high-speed links of 100Gbps and beyond. This “stacking” approach, combined with the breakthrough density and price of the new 9200 Series EndaceProbes, gives organizations the ability to record and store weeks of full packet data.

Come and visit

We’re looking forward to catching up at Black Hat. So if you are attending, do drop in and see us. We’re at Stand 306.

We are delighted to report that Endace was announced as a double winner at Cyber Defense Magazine’s Global Awards for 2018 last week, winning both the ‘Cutting Edge Security Hardware’ and ‘Best Product Network Security & Management’ categories. The award was for our new EndaceProbe 9200 Series Analytics Platform, announced recently.

The 2018 Cyber Defense Global Awards marks the sixth year of the awards, which celebrate and honor cyber defense and information security innovators. Organised by Cyber Defense Magazine, winners are published in Cyber Defense Magazine’s annual print edition and were presented with their awards at IP EXPO Conference 2018 at London’s ExCeL.

On Endace’s double win, Gary S. Miliefsky, Publisher of Cyber Defense Magazine, commented: “Cyber Defense Magazine spent six months searching the globe to find the most innovative and cutting edge cyber security companies for our Cyber Defense 2018 Global Awards. Endace won these awards for Cutting Edge Security Hardware and Best Product Network Security & Management because it is an innovator on a mission to help stop breaches and get one step ahead of the next threat, proactively.”

You can learn more about Endace’s network monitoring products, analytics platform, and network packet history recording solutions here.