Network Packet Broker Week in Review

By Ashok Bindra, TMCnet Contributor

With rising threats and growing security concern, this past week the Network Packet Broker space continued to raise the bar for corporate security. For that, enhanced analytical tools and solutions were unwrapped. Meanwhile, a large defense contractor extended its cyber defense network in Australia.

In a column, TMCnet contributor Mae Kowalke wrote that with security becoming a big concern for IT managers, securing corporate information has now risen to the level of threat intelligence. That means automated systems are no longer enough. Today, like the CIA trolling for information, IT departments are also monitoring corporate networks, looking for any suspicious activity. “But more than that, good corporate security means getting in the mind of cyber terrorists and anticipating their movements,” added Kowalke.

Speaking of intelligence, Lockheed Martin extended its cyber defense network down in Australia by opening its fourth Security Intelligence Center (SIC) in Canberra. With a more than $10 million investment, the new facility consolidates Lockheed Martin’s (News - Alert) business operations into a single facility, the Lockheed Martin Centennial House. As reported, the center was opened by Sondra Barbour, executive vice president of Lockheed Martin's Information Systems and Global Solutions. The center will also contribute to an active global exchange in cyber capability and tradecraft.

Working with Splunk (News - Alert) Enterprise, real-time wire-data analytics provider ExtraHop readied a new security solution that provides real-time auditing and anomaly detection across organizational tiers. As reported, the solution transforms real-time security-related wire data into machine data for elegant, in-depth visualization, enabling IT, compliance, and security teams to easily pinpoint the system, application, or infrastructure element in which a security event is occurring without using agents or offline packet capture. The report shows that the new context-aware monitoring solution provides correlated, cross-tier visibility and anomaly detection that complements intrusion prevention (IPS), intrusion detection (IDS), and Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems.

In other news, GL Communications (News - Alert) Inc. announced an enhanced PacketScan, an all-IP packet analyzer with unique triggering and search capabilities for “Calls of Interest.” The report highlights PacketScan features such as capturing and monitoring live signaling and traffic over IP (version 4 and 6). It is designed to capture, segregate, monitor and collect statistics on all IP calls.

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