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Tag: Security Monitoring

Executive Q&A: Adam Powers, CTO

As CTO of Lancope, Adam Powers is a leading innovator in the development of flow-based network and security monitoring solutions. He possesses over a decade of operational and engineering experience in enterprise IP security technologies, including tenure as a Sergeant with the U.S. Marine Corps.                           Major IT Trends Facing Today’s Enterprises 1.      What are the major IT trends that will affect enterprise network management and security in the future? The following three trends have already begun to make quite an impact on enterprise networks, but I believe their impact will continue to grow over the coming years. IT Consumerization:… READ MORE

NetFlow for PCI Compliance and Beyond

More and more, companies are recognizing the value of flow data for demonstrating compliance with the PCI DSS standard. Due to the broad range of network coverage and capabilities offered by flow-based technologies like Lancope’s StealthWatch, they provide a very efficient, cost-effective means of achieving and maintaining compliance with many of the PCI DSS requirements. Many organizations are also realizing that flow collection and analysis can do more than just help them comply, also significantly improving their network and security operations above and beyond the minimum requirements. Financial services is obviously one industry in which flow-based technologies are gaining increased… READ MORE

Executive Q&A: Chris Smithee, Corporate Systems Engineer

Chris Smithee is a corporate systems engineer at Lancope focused on flow-based detection and analysis of security and network events. He has ten years of experience in the telecom industry with a strong focus in network security and design. Smithee is a lead presenter for Lancope’s NetFlow 101 seminars, and delivers extensive training to customers and partners. How IT Administrators Are Harnessing the Power of NetFlow What are some of the top concerns of the IT administrators you interact with on a daily basis? This varies substantially by market, but one of the things that often comes up is managing the… READ MORE

Executive Q&A: David Scruggs, Director of North American Sales

Bringing over ten years of experience with leading technology companies, David Scruggs is the Director of North American Sales for Lancope. Scruggs is responsible for direct and channel sales management in the United States and Canada. Prior to this role, Scruggs achieved dramatic sales growth as the Major Account Manager in the Southeast, focused exclusively on the Fortune 1000. The Evolution of NetFlow 1.       How has the use of NetFlow evolved over recent years? NetFlow was originally used as a tool for measuring bandwidth consumption so that companies could bill back their subsidiaries for usage. When it was first being… READ MORE

Lancope’s StealthWatch Wins Best in NetFlow and in Network Visibility for 2010 Product Innovation Aw

StealthWatch Confirmed Market Leader for NetFlow-based Solutions   Atlanta, March 9, 2010 – Lancope, Inc., the leader in NetFlow collection and analysis and provider of the StealthWatch® System for flow-based network performance and security monitoring, today announced that Network Products Guide, the industry’s leading information technology research and advisory guide, has named StealthWatch the Best in NetFlow and Best in Network Visibility for the 2010 Product Innovation Awards. Previously honored Best in NetFlow in 2008, StealthWatch was also twice awarded Best in Network Behavior Analysis and once for Best in Virtual Visibility. This annually venerated award recognizes and honors innovative… READ MORE