August 18, 2009 | NetWitness® Announces Aggressive Adoption in U.S. Government Market

Adds 25 New U.S. Government Agency Customers During Past 12 Months

HERNDON, VA – August 18, 2009 – NetWitness Corporation, the leading provider of next generation network monitoring and threat analysis solutions, announced several milestones today demonstrating major momentum in the U.S. Government market:

  • Over the past 12 months, NetWitness deployed network monitoring products in 25 government agencies.
  • More than half of all cabinet level agencies have adopted NetWitness to support Trusted Internet Connection (TIC) solutions, address insider threat concerns, and/or to detect complex data leakage problems by focusing on closing gaps in network visibility.
  • NetWitness has been added to the U.S. Army’s Information Assurance Approved Products List (Army IA APL) and is working with the information security certification programs under the National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP) run jointly by the NSA and NIST, including: Common Criteria EAL 3 and Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2.
  • The freeware version of NetWitness Investigator has been adopted by over 15,000 users, including security experts within most U.S. government agencies.

“We are honored to play a critical role in the cyber defense of our nation,” stated Jaci Vilardo, Vice President of Federal Sales for NetWitness. “Our NextGen™ technology was developed originally for the U.S. intelligence community and over the past few years has evolved to support missions of all sizes and levels of complexity across the entire U.S. government. The majority of our employees have served side-by-side with our customers on the front lines of both classified and unclassified U.S. cyber security efforts, so we have a solid understanding of the unique and diverse requirements of federal agencies within intelligence, law enforcement, military and civilian sectors.”

About NetWitness
NetWitness® Corporation provides patented and award winning, next generation security solutions that help government and private organizations discover, prioritize and remediate complex IT risks. NetWitness solutions concurrently solve a wide variety of information security problems including: advanced persistent threat management; sensitive data discovery and advanced data leakage detection; malware activity discovery; insider threat management; policy and controls verification and e-discovery. Originally developed for the US Intelligence Community, NetWitness has evolved to provide enterprises around the world with breakthrough methods of network content analysis and host-based risk discovery and prioritization. NetWitness customers include Defense, National Law Enforcement and Intelligence Agencies, Top US and European Banks, Critical Infrastructure, and Global 1000 organizations. NetWitness has offices in the U.S. and the U.K. and partners throughout North and South America Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.

To download the freeware version of NetWitness Investigator, visit http://download.netwitness.com . For more information about securing your entire organization with NetWitness NextGen, contact: sales@netwitness.com . Twitter handle: NetWitness .



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