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NetWitness Releases Free Version of Security Software
Tuesday,18 Nov,2008
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NetWitness, a vendor of networking threat-analysis software, is offering a free version of its NetWitness Investigator package by download, the company said Monday. NetWitness Investigator is different from most other network-scanning software in that it uses forensic tools to examine applications and changes on content on the network, as well as attacks coming from outside the network, said Amit Yoran, NetWitness' chairman and CEO. The software package gives users detailed analyses of malicious activity on their networks, he said.
NetWitness Investigator is designed to address gaps in other cyber security products, he said. It can help users identify cyber security problems, insider attacks and sophisticated outsider attacks, and it can help with IT audits and antifraud investigations, the company said. The company, which split off from ManTech in 2006, has customers in the U.S. government and the financial industry, according to NetWitness, based in Herndon, Virginia.
