Jody Ma Kissling

SANS Critical Security Controls Featuring Lancope

SANS has recently developed its Spring 2013 Critical Security Controls poster, listing each of the controls and the vendors that help organizations address them. Lancope is featured under four of the controls as a means of fulfilling their specific security requirements. READ MORE

Forrester Endorses Lancope and Cisco Approach for Combating Advanced Threats

According to a Forrester Consulting Technology Adoption Profile commissioned by Lancope and Cisco, “Enlightened organizations have adopted network flow analysis capabilities to augment their preventative controls, but fail to include the additional context necessary to truly identify malicious activity within their networks.” While there are many solutions on the market that simply collect and store flow data, or even provide basic analysis, Lancope’s StealthWatch System provides the additional context called for by Forrester. READ MORE

Combined Internal and External Monitoring for Advanced Security Context

This week, Palo Alto Networks announced a technology partnership with Lancope to improve enterprise network security. By consuming NetFlow records from Palo Alto’s Next-Generation Firewalls, Lancope’s StealthWatch System delivers in-depth network insight and security intelligence for detecting and remediating a wide range of issues facing enterprise infrastructure. READ MORE

Data Breach Costs and Consequences Continue to Grow

In the past several months, there have been many articles in the media discussing legal action against organizations that suffer data breaches. The problem is that many organizations don’t even know when they are susceptible to data leakage. Flow-based monitoring can fill in the gaps left by conventional technologies and uncover anomalous behaviors that signify security or compliance issues. READ MORE

Internal Visibility for Detecting Financial Fraud

A recent article in Dark Reading uncovered some alarming insights surrounding insider breaches in the financial sector, as first reported by Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute. For example, the report uncovered that insider fraud in the financial industry typically goes on for more than two years before detection. These types of insights highlight a prevalent issue surrounding today’s network security – a lack of in-depth visibility into the internal network. READ MORE