NetWitness Selected by AlwaysOn as a Venture Summit Mid-Atlantic 100 Winner

HERNDON, Va., Oct. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- NetWitness Corporation, the world leader in real-time network forensics and next generation network security monitoring, today announced it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the Venture Summit Mid-Atlantic Top 100 winners. The 100 companies making up the Venture Summit Mid-Atlantic 100 were selected for leadership among their peers and game-changing approaches and technologies likely to disrupt existing markets and entrenched players in the mid-Atlantic region.

The recognition comes as NetWitness hosts its second annual User Conference at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C. Keynoting the conference are Richard A. Clarke, former White House advisor on cybersecurity, and Orson Swindle, former commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission.

About the Venture Summit Mid-Atlantic award

The Venture Summit Mid-Atlantic 100 winners were selected from among thousands of mid-Atlantic technology companies nominated by investors, bankers, journalists and industry insiders. The AlwaysOn editorial team conducted a rigorous three-month selection process to finalize the 2010 list. Winners will be honored at AlwaysOn's first annual Venture Summit Mid-Atlantic on November 3rd, 2010, at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA.

Additional NetWitness Awards and Recognitions

• 3rd fastest growing company in the Washington, D.C. area by the Washington Business Journal
• 21st Fastest Growing Private Company in the U.S. by Inc. Magazine
• SC Magazine Reader's Trust Award as "Best Computer Forensics Solution"
• Red Herring's "Top 100 Company" Award
• Company CEO Amit Yoran named to the Smart100 list by SmartCEO Magazine

Resources

• Agenda for the 2nd Annual NetWitness User Conference
• Overview of NetWitness' real-time network forensics and network security monitoring technology
• Press release announcing NetWitness Visualize
• Media coverage of NetWitness
• Details of NetWitness' discovery of the Kneber botnet

About AlwaysOn

AlwaysOn is the leading business media brand networking the Global Silicon Valley. AlwaysOn helped ignite the social media revolution in early 2003 when it launched the AlwaysOn network. In 2004, it became the first media brand to socially network its online readers and event attendees. AlwaysOn's preeminent executive event series includes the Summit at Stanford, OnMedia, OnHollywood, Venture Summit Mid-Atlantic, OnDemand, Venture Summit Silicon Valley, Venture Summit East, GoingGreen Silicon Valley, and GoingGreen East. The AlwaysOn network and live event series continue to lead the industry by empowering its readers, event participants, sponsors, and advertisers like no other media brand.

About NetWitness

NetWitness® Corporation is the world leader in real-time network forensics and automated threat intelligence solutions, helping government and commercial organizations detect, prioritize and remediate complex IT risks. NetWitness solutions concurrently solve a wide variety of information security problems including: advanced persistent threat management; sensitive data discovery and advanced data leakage detection; malware activity discovery; insider threat management; policy and controls verification and e-discovery. Originally developed for the US Intelligence Community, NetWitness has evolved to provide enterprises around the world with breakthrough methods of network content analysis and host-based risk discovery and prioritization. NetWitness customers include Defense, National Law Enforcement and Intelligence Agencies, Top US and European Banks, Critical Infrastructure, and Global 1000 organizations. NetWitness has offices in the U.S. and the U.K. and partners throughout North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia.

To download the freeware version of NetWitness Investigator, visit http://download.netwitness.com . For more information about securing your entire organization with NetWitness NextGen, contact: [email protected] . Twitter handle: NetWitness .

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