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Solera Networks Announces DeepSee(TM) - The World's First Search Engine for Packet and Payload Data-in-Motion

Posted on: Tuesday, 29 April 2008, 09:00 CDT

Solera Networks today announced the release of the beta version of Solera DeepSee, which provides the unprecedented ability for IT or business executives to search, locate and reconstruct specific network traffic in an intuitive, web-like search format. DeepSee is deployed in conjunction with Solera Networks' DS appliances, which provide complete network visibility for both virtual and physical networks through software-based packet capture and stream-to-storage technology.

"Network security has become a chief concern for more than just the IT staff. It is now a bottom-line business concern, whether the threat is internal or external to the organization," said Steve Shillingford, CEO of Solera Networks. "In addition, organizations are facing evolving compliance mandates requiring them to save more data, including data-in-motion. With a 'Google™-like' interface, DeepSee provides quick and easy search capabilities to discover and view artifacts of network traffic. These could include emails, key documents, IM dialogues, file transfers, VoIP calls or any other packet-based network communication. This can be accomplished using DeepSee without the user having any knowledge of networking protocols, packet analysis toolsets or forensics expertise."

Solera DeepSee is used in conjunction with Solera Networks DS Appliances that capture and store all network traffic, whether virtualized or physical, even on the fastest 10 Gbps networks.

Solera DeepSee enables organizations to:

Execute web-style queries, searching by keywords, user, type of traffic, type of attachment, IP or MAC address, and many other variables

Search network traffic for the existence of the most common enterprise file formats

Extract and view network artifacts from the search results

Obtain visibility into key network-based traffic for legal, HR and other business professionals without requiring networking expertise

Monitor and keep a record of all data-in-motion inside the enterprise

"With the increasing growth in network traffic and network speeds, solutions that help organizations intuitively search through the mass of data to get to the root cause of a network problem, security breach or policy violation will be in high demand," said Robert Ayoub, Industry Manager -- Network Security for Frost & Sullivan. "Full network visibility is key to addressing network security issues."

The intuitive DeepSee interface is designed for users of any technical level to uncover the information they need, yet is powerful enough to benefit the most seasoned forensics professionals. Once an item is found, results are displayed in easy-to-understand result sets, allowing users to make selections and view the results displayed in their original formats. For example, emails are reconstructed to appear as emails, instant message (IM) messages are rendered as IM conversations and PDFs are reconstructed as PDFs.

The company will be showcasing Solera DeepSee at Interop Las Vegas, booth 1971. For more information, visit http://www.soleranetworks.com.

About Solera Networks

Solera Networks is the leader in providing network visibility via deep packet capture and stream-to-storage technology. Solera Networks' DS Series is a line of high-performance appliances, including software-only virtual appliances, which capture, record, and archive 100% of network traffic at speeds up to 10 Gbps. Captured traffic is written to a scalable, disk-based cache system and presented in multiple industry-standard formats, including PCAP, as a virtual network interface, or as regenerated network traffic. The captured data is then accessible instantly via Solera Networks' search, alert and archive interfaces, or via any standards-based security, forensics, compliance, analytics or network management application. Those applications can then perform their analysis on either live or stored data, at live, throttled or accelerated playback speeds, using sophisticated filters based on source/destination, protocol, time period and other variables, providing complete visibility into all network traffic without affecting the production network's performance. For more information on Solera Networks, visit http://www.soleranetworks.com.

Source: Business Wire

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