April 2, 2008 | NetWitness Experts Present on Threat Intelligence and the Future of Network Monitoring in Three Sessions at RSA Conference 2008

Industry Veterans Amit Yoran, CEO; Eddie Schwartz, CSO; and Shawn Carpenter, Principal Forensics Analyst; Invited to Speak on Industry Panels

HERNDON, VA – April 2, 2008 – NetWitness Corporation, the leading provider of next generation network monitoring and threat analysis solutions today announced its security experts are speaking at three sessions at the RSA Conference 2008 in San Francisco, CA on April 7-11.

Further information is listed below for all speaking appearances:


"The Competing Priorities of Law Enforcement, Defense and Intelligence"

  • April 9, 2008; 9:10 AM

  • Speaker: Amit Yoran, CEO

At this panel, Amit Yoran will lead a discussion along with Jerry Dixon, Mike Gibbons, and Andy Purdy, regarding their experiences in dealing with the various aspects of cyber attacks, incident response and situational awareness. He will also highlight specific case studies of compromises and attacks, and the competing pressures that occur among the various agencies and actors involved.
For more information, visit: RSA Conference 2008.


"Detection of Beacon Trojans and Advanced Data Exfiltration Techniques"

  • April 11, 2008; 10:05 AM

  • Speakers: Eddie Schwartz, CSO, and Shawn Carpenter, Principal Forensics Analyst

Drawing upon experience with Titan Rain and more sophisticated attacks observed within the public and private sectors, this session provides an in-depth examination of advanced data exfiltration techniques. It also describes methodologies and technologies for analyzing and detecting these zero-day attacks and provides techniques for building an alerting function for detecting beacon Trojans.
For more information, visit: RSA Conference 2008.


"Why Security Programs Fail"

  • April 11, 2008; 11:10 AM

  • Speaker: Amit Yoran, CEO

In spite of ongoing investments and numerous standards and regulations, cyberspace continues to observe security program failures- from the spectacular to those that rarely see the light of day. Former cyber security czar Amit Yoran describes why security programs continue to fail, and provides a vision for what public & private organizations should be doing to prevent such failures in the future.
For more information, visit: RSA Conference 2008.

Biographies on the executives can be found at: http://www.netwitness.com/company/managementteam.aspx

About the RSA Conference
RSA Conference is helping drive the security agenda worldwide with annual events in the U.S., Europe and Japan. Throughout its 17 year history, RSA Conference has consistently attracted the world’s best and brightest in the field, creating opportunities for conference attendees to learn about IT security’s most important issues through first-hand interactions with peers, luminaries and both emerging and established companies. As the IT security field continues to grow in importance and influence, RSA Conference plays an integral role in keeping security professionals across the globe connected and educated. For more information and conference dates, visit www.rsaconference.com.

About NetWitness
NetWitness Corporation provides patented next generation network monitoring products that enable organizations to achieve Total Network Knowledge™. Users of NetWitness NextGen can concurrently solve a wide variety of network and security problems, including, insider threat management, data leakage protection, malware activity detection, network performance management, and compliance verification. This infrastructure provides definitive answers to tough security problems and threats through automated network understanding of application layer data and related content. Originally, developed for the US Intelligence Community, NetWitness has evolved to provide enterprises with breakthrough methods of network content analysis and risk determination. Customers include Defense, National Law Enforcement and Intelligence Agencies and Fortune 1000 organizations. To set up a 30-day NetWitness evaluation in your environment, please email sales@netwitness.com. For additional information, please visit www.netwitness.com.



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