Narus Plays Significant Command and Control Role in Cyber Defense
Knowing and Understanding IP Network Traffic Essential to Providing Security and Management as Cyber Warfare Threat Increases; Visit Booth SL5626 at NXTcomm to Learn More
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA--(Marketwire - June 16, 2008) - Twenty years ago, "cyber warfare" was an
unknown term. Now, it conjures images of the 2007 attacks on Estonia that
crippled the country's economy for weeks, and more recent acknowledgement
from the U.S. Government that they have seen attacks and intrusions from
other countries into their critical networks. With so much of our world's
economy dependent upon the Internet to function, cyber warfare is very real
and a threat that merits close attention. Unfortunately, most institutions
-- including governments -- are still using inadequate solutions to protect
their valuable network infrastructure. The global consequences will be
disastrous if more attention is not paid to implementing real-time traffic
intelligence systems to identify, manage and protect the world's networks
from malicious attacks.
Cyber warfare goes far beyond malicious hacking by teenagers seen years
ago. This phenomenon occurs in a parallel, virtual world, and is
essentially the "New Cold War" -- it's organized, it's coordinated and it's
well funded. Instead of seeking protection against physical armies using
guns and bullets, institutions must guard against virtual armies whose
weapons of choice are Trojans, worms, viruses and botnets. Cyber attacks
are a global problem, with 25% of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)
attacks targeting the United States, 20% EMEA and 25% Asia Pacific. Every
network is vulnerable, with 30% of attacks targeting government and
military networks and 58% of attacks targeting ISPs and enterprises. The
world is connected via the Internet, and most are focused on protecting
just their small piece. One weak link -- and rest assured, there are many
out there -- and an entire country's network infrastructure can be
negatively impacted. In this new world, having a firewall or an
intrusion-detection system is not good enough. In fact, having both is not
good enough. The best protection against an attack or intrusion is to
initiate a holistic system to guard against attacks -- a "cyber command and
control center," in essence.
For many carriers and governments around the world, Narus is the technology
of choice to enable these cyber command and control centers for traffic
intelligence. They are using NarusInsight to detect and manage malicious
network attacks before they have the chance to wreak havoc. NarusInsight is
the most scalable traffic intelligence system for capturing, analyzing and
correlating IP traffic in real-time. It is unique in its ability to provide
high-speed, full-packet capture and processing, with deep traffic analysis
from Layer 2 to Layer 7, providing full traffic correlation across every
link and element on the network. NarusInsight provides next-generation
traffic analysis and network control with advanced algorithms, and is the
foundation for real-time security, intercept and traffic classification
applications. NarusInsight provides a holistic, global view of the entire
network and the traffic flowing through it, analyzing petabytes of data per
customer per day.
To learn more about protecting vital networks against malicious activity,
please visit Narus at booth SL5626 at NXTcomm, held June 16-18, 2008, at
the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas.
Narus: the leader in real-time traffic intelligence for the protection and
management of large IP networks. www.narus.com.