Lancope Delivers StealthWatch Xe for Cisco NetFlow; Extends Cost-Effective Network Security across Enterprises.

ATLANTA -- Lancope, Inc., the leading provider of network behavior anomaly detection (NBAD) solutions, today announced the general availability of StealthWatch Xe to cost-effectively extend enterprise protection and optimize network operations across distributed environments. StealthWatch Xe combines Lancope's proven security-focused, flow-analysis technology with industry-standard NetFlow data, which is natively available in existing network infrastructure from Cisco Systems (NasdaqNM:CSCO), Juniper Networks (NasdaqNM:JNPR), Foundry Networks (NasdaqNM:FDRY) and other leading networking vendors. StealthWatch Xe also provides rich visualization and advanced behavioral detection functionality to help organizations' more quickly defeat zero-day attacks, worms, policy violations, network misuse and other anomalies that significantly impact the availability and integrity of mission-critical networks. StealthWatch Xe is the latest addition to the StealthWatch System, which includes StealthWatch, StealthWatch Management Console and StealthWatch+Therminator.

"StealthWatch Xe overcomes obstacles, such as physical proximity requirements and limited span ports, staff or budget, to give enterprises continuous awareness of what is happening across the network versus what should be happening," said Jason Anderson, director of Engineering and Product Management for Lancope. "By fully realizing the security benefits of NetFlow data, StealthWatch Xe helps enterprises to defeat network security incidents more quickly and inexpensively than ever. Requiring minimal acquisition and deployment costs, StealthWatch Xe enables organizations to preempt, find and fix critical threats within seconds rather than hours."

StealthWatch Xe delivers:

--Cost-effective Monitoring and Coverage, Leveraging NetFlow Data

By combining the industry's leading flow-based anomaly detection engine with NetFlow data, StealthWatch Xe is the first to realize the true security potential of NetFlow. Compared to competitive solutions, StealthWatch Xe is significantly more flexible and scalable to install and deploy on distributed and multi-gig networks. By leveraging the investment in the existing network infrastructure, StealthWatch Xe delivers the broadest and deepest coverage for internal network security, providing an early warning of network anomalies, facilitating rapid remediation and tightening perimeter security defenses.

--Contextual Security Awareness and Network Visibility

With unparalleled insight into network activity, StealthWatch Xe provides actionable, in-depth security knowledge about anomalous network behavior. Able to immediately detect zero-day attacks, rogue devices and misconfigured applications, StealthWatch Xe ensures network availability and efficient bandwidth consumption, must-haves for any large, distributed network security operation.

--Flexible, Scalable Deployment

Unlike competitive solutions, the StealthWatch system gives customers the flexibility for mixed deployment. With StealthWatch Xe, organizations can gain broad, continuous awareness at a macro-level across the enterprise, while StealthWatch appliances provide more detailed traffic analysis capabilities, including packet capture, application verification and OS fingerprinting, for enhanced granular control of critical network segments.

According to the Naval Postgraduate School's Network Security Group director, Lieutenant Commander Reese Zomar, "Effective network security requires thorough network monitoring. By utilizing NetFlow and integrating it with Lancope's NBAD technology, we have improved our ability to quickly determine what has happened during a security incident, what remediation needs to be done and how to prevent future occurrences."

Zomar added, "StealthWatch Xe has increased our visibility of internal network traffic ten-fold from 90MB per minute to 900MB per minute. StealthWatch Xe helps our network and security managers view traffic patterns without having to deploy costly sniffers or LAN probes on every segment and provides a rich source of data for security-related tasks."

In the January 2005 issue of Secure Enterprise magazine, editor Mike Fratto authored a beta product review (http://www.securitypipeline.com/howto/55301632) of StealthWatch Xe and applauded its "advantage of simplifying traffic analysis."

Availability and Pricing

StealthWatch Xe is available now and pricing begins at $29,995. For more information, contact [e-mail].

About Lancope

Lancope is the leading provider of network behavior anomaly detection solutions that defeat Zero-day worms, internal network misuse and other anomalies that compromise network integrity. Lancope's StealthWatch integrates security and network management technology to reduce network risks and maximize network availability by rapidly identifying, prioritizing, mitigating and resolving critical threats, whether new or well-known. Both OPSEC and Common Criteria certified, StealthWatch was named InfoWorld's 2005 Technology of the Year and finalist for Network Computing Magazine's 2004 Well Connected Awards. Additionally, it has received outstanding reviews from InfoWorld, eWeek and CRN magazines. Defending the networks of Global 2000 organizations, academic institutions and government entities, Lancope's StealthWatch protects over 150 enterprise customers and 15 million hosts worldwide. Lancope is a privately held, venture-backed company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. For more information, call 888-419-1462 or visit www.lancope.com.

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