Lancope Ships StealthWatch Management Console 3.0 For Innovative, Centrally Managed Network Security

-Creates Powerful, Coordinated Network and Security Infrastructure for More Effective Protection and Optimization Across the Enterprise-

ATLANTA, Ga., September 23rd, 20032003 - Lancope, Inc., the leading provider of behavior-based threat detection and network intelligence solutions, today announced the availability of StealthWatch Management Console™ 3.0 for scalable, centralized management of network security across the enterprise. The StealthWatch Management Console 3.0 provides an enhanced coordinated security and network infrastructure for more effective protection and optimization of enterprise networks.

By unifying management across multiple StealthWatch appliances deployed at critical segments throughout the network, the StealthWatch Management Console 3.0 now delivers advanced data correlation, traffic visualization and consolidated reporting of real-time security events. Administrators can detect and prioritize security threats, pinpoint network misuse and suboptimal performance, and manage incident response across the enterprise through a single control center.

The StealthWatch Management Console 3.0 offers the unprecedented ability to increase network and security team efficiencies while decreasing operating costs. Beyond reducing the total cost of ownership for network security, the StealthWatch Management Console 3.0 also delivers operational awareness of the network and empowers administrators to improve the network security posture. In addition, the StealthWatch Management Console 3.0 enhances network management through trend analysis, firewall and capacity planning, interdepartmental billing and performance monitoring.

"The StealthWatch Management Console 3.0 represents a critical element of the layered, defense-in-depth strategy to securing the network," said Harland LaVigne, president and CEO of Lancope. "Its powerful correlation and reporting capabilities combined with its advanced 3D graphing empowers security teams to extend protection across the enterprise and network teams to optimize network capacity and performance in a cost-effective manner."

StealthWatch Management Console 3.0 offers multiple new capabilities for today's enterprise networks:

Customizable and flexible 3D visualization of security and network intelligence

Advanced 3D visualization of network traffic relationships provides powerful security and network intelligence that enhances the understanding of network traffic patterns; helps identify deviations from typical network behavior to detect Denial of Service (DoS) attacks, worms, reconnaissance and network misuse; identifies network bottlenecks; and exposes malfunctioning network devices.

Drill-down analysis of security events

The ability to perform drill-down analysis into alarms, host-level activity and suspicious network behavior allows for identification of network and security trends, facilitates in-depth root-cause analysis, and enables administrators to prioritize and facilitate rapid remediation to contain attacks and mitigate network damage.

Insightful real-time reporting

The StealthWatch Management Console 3.0 now offers pre-defined and customizable XML-based reports that provide valuable insight into network usage and assists essential security and network management tasks, such as creating and assessing security policies. In addition, this critical information ensures proper configuration of firewalls, servers and other network devices and helps identify trends in order to address potential problems and to optimize network performance.

Efficient centralized administration across distributed deployment

By providing secure remote administration of multiple StealthWatch appliances, the StealthWatch Management Console 3.0 allows administrators to centrally define and implement hierarchical security zones, security and network usage policies and various appliance configuration parameters.

Integrated with StealthWatch™ to create the StealthWatch System, the StealthWatch Management Console 3.0 correlates security and network intelligence across multiple StealthWatch appliances deployed at critical segments throughout the network. Now generally available, the StealthWatch 3.0 appliance is an innovative behavior-based Intrusion Detection System (IDS) that provides enhanced network and host level security through improved policy management and enforcement as well as insightful visualization of network activity.

Availability and Pricing

The StealthWatch Management Console 3.0 is available and shipping. Pricing for the StealthWatch Management Console 3.0 is $5,000 plus an additional $5,000 per managed StealthWatch appliance. Pricing for StealthWatch G1, which handles high-speed traffic of up to one Gbps, begins at $35,000. Pricing for StealthWatch M100, which is capable of handling traffic at speeds up to 100 Mbps, begins at $20,000. Existing customers can contact Lancope Customer Care Support Desk for upgrades at 800-838-6574 or via email at support@lancope.com.

About Lancope and StealthWatch™

Founded in 2000, Lancope is the leading provider of next-generation network integrity solutions that deliver behavior-based threat defense, policy enforcement and insightful network intelligence. With integrated visibility across network security, traffic characteristics and host-level activity, Lancope's StealthWatch solutions provide unparalleled network protection and optimization. Both OPSEC and Common Criteria certified, StealthWatch has received numerous accolades. Most recently StealthWatch received a 5-star rating for technology excellence from CRN Magazine. In addition, StealthWatch has received the Innovation In Infrastructure Award from eWeek and PC Magazine and was honored "Most Impressive" by eWeek. Defending the networks of Global 2000 organizations, academic institutions and government entities, Lancope protects the critical assets of today's sophisticated enterprises. For more information, visit www.lancope.com.