Decoder
How do you know what really happened on your network if you don’t have a record of it?
Can you prove definitively what communications did or did not occur on your network?
Do you want to have a higher level of assurance regarding actual specific activities on your network?

NetWitness® Decoder is the cornerstone of the NetWitness NextGen™ infrastructure and the key component of an enterprise-wide network data recording solution. Decoder is a real-time, distributed, highly configurable network recording appliance that enables users to collect, filter, and analyze full network traffic in an infinite number of dimensions.

Unlike every other network recording or monitoring products on the market, Decoder fully reassembles and globally normalizes traffic at every layer for full session analysis. The patented Decoder represents a breakthrough in network traffic monitoring that dynamically builds a complete taxonomy of data across all layers and applications, including full packets. Decoder creates a definitive foundation of Total Network Knowledge™ that can be mined in real-time by the NetWitness® Investigator and Informer applications. For more advanced applications, users can leverage NextGen’s available API/SDK to build more organizational-specific applications which utilize Decoder and the NextGen infrastructure. Decoder represents the intersection of network metrics, rich application flow and content information that differentiates NetWitness® products from any other capabilities on the market.

Product Features:
  • Linux-based, highly configurable, full packet capture and reassembly device
  • Modular and fully upgradeable hardware platform across entire product line
  • Indefinitely scales your collection infrastructure upon a distributed framework
  • FlexParse™ enabled for rapid, user definable parsing and modeling
  • Supports threat intelligence feeds that track BOTs, designer malware, darknets, proxies and fast flux networks, etc.
  • Protocol and application exploitation: HTTP, FTP, TFTP, TELNET, SMTP, POP3, NNTP, DNS, HTTPS, SSL, SOCKS, SSH, Vcard, PGP, SMIME, DHCP, NETBIOS, SMB/CIFS, SNMP, NFS, RIP, MSRPC, Lotus Notes®, TDS(MSSQL), TNS(Oracle®), IRC, Lotus Sametime®, MSN IM, RTP, Gnutella, Yahoo Messenger, AIM, SIP, H.323, Net2Phone®,Yahoo Chat, SCCP (Cisco® Skinny), Bittorrent, GTALK, Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, GMail, TOR, Social Networking, Fast Flux and many others.
  • FIPS(Federal Information Processing Standard) compliant SSL communications
  • Expandable SAS storage capacity & supports SAN solutions
  • Available API/SDK for custom application development
  • Software-only solutions are available for Windows® and Linux

Deployment:
Place NetWitness® Decoder(s) wherever you want to capture traffic: egress, core, facility, or segment. They can be operated continuously or tactically and ingest any network capture feed from any source. Decoders are designed to interoperate with Investigator and Informer, as well as push data to central NetWitness® Concentrators for aggregated analytical views.

NetWitness® Appliance Models:

SKU Interface Storage Rack Unit Power Weight
NWA 100-8D
One copper Ethernet
100/1000 for management
One capture interface, copper
2TB Total Storage
Not redundant
1 RU
x 14" (D)
x 1.75" (H)
x 16.8" (W)
Single
260 (W)
120/240V
25 lbs
NWA 1200-16D
Two copper Ethernet
100/1000 for management
Four capture interfaces, copper
12TB Total Storage
Redundant with hotswap
2 RU
x 27.75" (D)
x 3.44" (H)
x 17.6" (W)
Dual Redundant
850 (W)
120/240V autoswitch
66lbs
*All appliances are UL, FCC, CE and VCCI approved & RoHS Compliant

Call 703-889-8950 or contact sales@netwitness.com for more information about NetWitness® Decoder and other NetWitness NextGen™ products.



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