NetWitness® Teams with RSA to Provide Real-Time Situational Awareness

HERNDON, Va., July 7 /PRNewswire/ -- NetWitness Corporation, the world leader in advanced threat intelligence and real-time network forensics, today announced interoperability with the RSA enVision® enterprise security solution. This interoperability between the enVision security information and event management (SIEM) platform of RSA, The Security Division of EMC, and NetWitness' advanced threat management solution provides best-in-class technologies that are engineered to provide a higher level of situational awareness for security operations centers and incident response teams.

"In a world in which many incident responders struggle to determine which security events pose the most risk to their organization, the interoperability of NetWitness and RSA enVision SIEM helps offer detailed and definitive answers to the most challenging questions," said Brian Girardi, Director of Product Management, NetWitness Corporation. "This interoperable solution is designed to both infuse existing RSA enVision events with pertinent session content and context, and also send unique network threat alerts to RSA enVision SIEM that can be detected by the real-time network forensics of NetWitness NextGen™. Teaming with RSA is part of our ongoing strategy to contribute to a next generation enterprise security management ecosystem that rapidly produces effective results when managing advanced threats and complex network security events."

NetWitness' interoperability with RSA highlights just one of several features in the NetWitness product suite that enables easy enterprise security interoperability with the network security and infrastructure products deployed throughout enterprises. NetWitness' capabilities provide an agile approach for enterprises to obtain clear, actionable information on advanced threats, accelerate incident response, determine incident impact, and continuously monitor their networks in real-time. The flexible, modular architecture of NetWitness NextGen 9 provides these capabilities across enterprise networks.

"We are pleased to welcome NetWitness to the RSA Secured Partner Program. When faced with today's evolving cyber threat landscape, the ability to conduct real-time analysis is paramount," said Ted Kamionek, Vice President, Business Development and Technical Alliances at RSA. "Through our interoperability collaboration we can provide a powerful set of tools for customers in the market by delivering critical real-time network forensics and enabling enterprise security experts to deal with security risks in the most effective and efficient manner possible."

NetWitness customers and partners have immediate access to the implementation guide on the NetWitness Customer Support Portal.

About the RSA Secured Partner Program

The RSA Secured Partner Program is one of the largest and longest-running technology alliance programs of its type, bringing more than 1,000 complementary solutions across more than 300 organizations together. RSA SecurID®, RSA® Access Manager, RSA® Adaptive Authentication, RSA® Digital Certificate Solutions, RSA® Hybrid Authenticators, RSA enVision, RSA® Federated Identity Manager and RSA® Key Manager Suite certification programs bring added assurance to customers that their solutions are certified as interoperable to help them achieve faster time to deployment and lower overall cost of ownership. The RSA Secured Partner Program reflects RSA's commitment to driving inventive collaboration across the industry and support standards-based interoperability with its information-centric security solutions to help protect information, identities and infrastructures. For more information, please visit www.rsa.com/rsasecured.  

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, 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  .

EMC, RSA, enVision, Secured, and SecurID are registered trademarks or trademarks of EMC Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.   All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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