Amazing people driving personal success at Endace

Original Entry by : Sasha Blair

By Sasha Blair, VP, People and Legal, Endace


People are at the heart of what makes the Endace vision come to life.  Our team applies their knowledge and skills to continually innovate with fast-paced advances in technology.  It is imperative that our people grow within their roles and become drivers of innovation themselves.

People development is key to Endace’s success, and we invest heavily in continuously developing team members’ skills and expertise.

At Endace we have an annual development process that is voluntary and open to all.  Our people are in the driving seat.  They steer their own learning goals since they are the experts in their own career aspirations and motivations.  It’s not about past performance – in fact the development planning is completed prior to our annual achievement review process. The aim of the development planning process is to align individual goals and enhance current roles in preparation for future opportunities and to build new skills.  With input and guidance from business leaders, alignment with the broader business context is considered in the process.

Future career aspirations, capability development and learning opportunities are discussed, and a plan is developed in collaboration with each individual and their manager.  Managers will talk about the evolving needs of the business and how team members might contribute, build on their strengths and develop applicable skills.  The result is a documented action plan in which team members can follow and track their success.

Usama’s Experience

One of our staff Engineers, Usama Malik, spoke about his experience with the development program.

“Endace has always encouraged and supported my personal learning goals, and over the years I’ve had opportunities to explore both technical and managerial development paths. These included training courses (online, in-group and one-to-one), formal assignments and informal tasks within my role.   

Unlike many other companies, at Endace I can set the pace myself depending on my day-to-day schedule and other urgent duties.  I’ve found this flexibility very appealing, especially with learning outcomes and their business impact being evaluated during annual achievement reviews.

My 2021-2022 development plan was particularly rewarding for me.  In previous years I chose development projects within my specific technical domain. However, last year I was able to step out of my comfort zone and work with the wider systems team on projects focused on continuously improving product reliability and performance.  Endace bought new equipment to enable me to analyze hardware at the electrical level and I learned new protocols and broadened my understanding of how state-of-the-art devices work. I collaborated with people from multiple teams – including software, production, operations and customer support.  This cross-functional teamwork yielded excellent results. It has been a win-win situation for everyone, including our customers who reap the benefits of these product improvements.”

Endace’s people development process offers our team members the structure to plan, discuss and execute growth opportunities that build their potential. We have seen excellent commitment, high interest in the program and strong support from managers leading to fantastic results in preparing our people and securing our future.


Black Hat Europe 2017: Where the Best Minds in Cybersecurity Meet

Original Entry by : Leah Jones

Christmas and New Year may be approaching fast, but the ever-changing and unpredictable world of Information Security continues at full speed.

From the 4th-7th of December, we’ll be exhibiting at Black Hat Europe at the ExCel, London.

Attended by cybersecurity professionals and enthusiasts from around the world, Black Hat Europe 2017 will bring the best and brightest in the industry together to share information on the latest research, developments and trends.

We’ll be at our at stand (booth 201) throughout the event to answer questions and to share thoughts and ideas with attendees, particularly on the major breaches of recent years and the impending GDPR legislation. With the May 2018 deadline not far away, organizations need to be aware of how to respond to potential data breaches quickly or face hefty fines if they are inadequately prepared.

Some of the major breaches that we’ll be discussing include:

  • Equifax, a victim of one of the largest hacks in recent memory. The company took two months to admit that the breach had taken place. Post-GDPR, Equifax would need to reduce their identification and reporting time from two months to just 72 hours.
  • Deloitte, where a cyberattack on the company’s Azure-hosted email server’s administration account resulted in confidential documents and emails being stolen. To prepare for GDPR, cloud providers need to prioritize network visibility, something that current cloud software structures often hinder.
  • TalkTalk, which announced in 2015 that a breach had taken place, erred on the side of caution by “over-reporting”, later discovering the breach was not as bad as first thought. Under GDPR, more companies may be inclined to over-report, given potential fines of up to 4% of their global revenue for under-reporting. In a post-GDPR world, precision in post-breach analysis and forensics is essential.

We’ll be demonstrating how our EndaceProbe Network Recorders can be integrated with security tools from partners like Cisco, Splunk, Plixer and Palo Alto Networks to accelerate the investigation of security alerts and help companies to identify and respond to intrusions before they can escalate into a major breach.

We’ll also be talking to attendees about why recording their network traffic provides the only truly reliable evidence for conclusively determining the cause and scope of security intrusions and breaches.

Attending Black Hat London 2017 and want to learn more about Endace? Visit our exhibition at booth 201 and meet our team. If you’re unable to attend Black Hat, visit our website to learn more about Endace and our EndaceProbe Network Recorders . Or follow us on Twitter or LinkedIn


Dynatrace-Endace Partnership Enhances AA-NPM with EndaceProbe

Original Entry by : Mike Heumann

While at Cisco Live today, I was struck by the traffic patterns on the show floor.  Wherever there was a traffic jam, it seemed as though it was caused by a few people walking slower than everyone else, or by a momentary obstruction that halted traffic.  Enterprise networks share many of the same attributes (and problems) that show floors do in that respect.  The part that makes it worse for enterprise networks (vs. show floors) is that there are mission-critical applications that run on top of these networks.  When networks have performance issues (even momentary ones), the impact on these applications can be catastrophic.

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Endace Network Visibility Solutions Part of InteropNet at Interop 2014!

Original Entry by : Barry Shaw

As Interop once again draws near, the InteropNet infrastructure stands ready and waiting to provide critical connectivity to the thousands of visitors and hundreds of exhibitors who attend the show.  Each year, InteropNet is provided by a dedicated band of volunteer vendors, whose preparation starts early in February at the UBM hot stage. There, the network is designed, constructed and tested, so that it is ready to be shipped to Las Vegas in time to provide the network for Interop. Each year, the team reviews the latest technology to determine what is needed to provide a state of the art network that can showcase emergent trends in the networking space.

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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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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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Who needs Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) when you have Cyber Mondays?

Original Entry by : Sonny Singh

I don’t know about you, but the winter holiday season is a bittersweet pill for me to swallow due in part to two occurrences which are aptly named “Black Friday” and “Cyber Monday.” The connotations themselves conjure up images of sinister malevolence. Black Friday might as well be called “The Black Plague” and Cyber Monday could very well be the title for the next Terminator movie, “Cyber Monday – Rise of the Machines.” The two lexicons of retail mind-control methods are emblazoned in the pre-frontal cortex of every consumer out there…unless by chance, you have been one of the lucky few individuals who is stuck in the 1950’s and opts to buy their holiday presents from the Sears Roebuck Holiday catalog, I envy you.

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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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