The Latest Security Technologies & Trends: A Look At What’s Happening In The Security Field, From Technology To Strategy

Lancope CEO Mike Potts with Jean Creech on Bold Ventures Radio

Lancope at Interop Las Vegas 2010

Lancope Goes with the Flow

Products of the Week

Tech Insight: Keeping Server Virtualization Secure

Blog: The "NOC" on Security Management, part 2

Getting the Big Picture on Your Security Situation

Incorporating Flow-Based Behavioral Analysis Inside Agency Networks

Know the risks of running industrial control systems on IP networks

IPv6 Makes Slow Progress

Overheard Blog: How does anomaly-based monitoring fit into tomorrow’s security picture?

SUNY's Binghamton Monitors Network with Lancope's StealthWatch

Gaining insight into security devices, SCADA networks

How to Use Network Behavior Analysis Tools

Cisco Subnet: Use NetFlow for visibility into network blind spots: Virtualization, 10Gb+ Ethernet, MPLS and Multipoint VPN

Concord Hospital Adds StealthWatch

Cascading Network Woes:

Lancope StealthWatch Bridges Security Concerns At the Niagara Falls

VMWareSecurity Blog: Security In The Virtual World

"Security Through Visibility - Montego, Lancope and NetFlow"

Network management software vendors readying IPv6

Insights Into Technology: Network Behavior Analysis

Healthy VoIP Nets—Part XXXIII—Network Management Architectures: Lancope

Tracking NetFlow over MPLS helps airline with compliance

Stanford Medical School's Rx: Anomaly Detection

WhatWorks in Intrusion Detection and Prevention:
Easing the Pains of Compliance at AirTran Airways

Red Herring North America Winners 2008 Announced

NetFlow-infused systems watch for trending, traffic patterns, network abnormalities

NetFlows Next Step: Network Behavioral Analysis

University rolls out network analysis tool to remove congestion

10 Gigabit Ethernet Secures Border at Niagara Falls

Monitoring Operational Activity Lancope Correlates Security & Network Intelligence

Network Monitoring's New Year Resolution: Is it 'all change

NBA: Your Last Line of Defense

Lancope Announces StealthWatch 5.7

 Recapture Your Network Visibility by Adam Powers

Behavior analysis puts traffic in perspective by Adam Powers

Cisco Subnet: Q & A with network behavior analysis software expert - Adam Powers

Case Study: The Detroit Tigers home field advantage

Lancope hits homerun for Detroit Tigers; Detroit Tigers used Lancope to sniff out abnormal traffic patterns

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Security Information Management simplified by Foundry/Lancope linkup

"Making the Call: Is Your Network Secure Enough for VoIP?" with host Priscilla Tate and Gary Hemminger, Director of Product Marketing, Foundry Networks and Adam Powers, CTO of Lancope, and Todd Terbeek of Lockdown Networks.
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Seminar spotlight on IT security

For managed MPLS-based network migrations to be truly successful, enterprises must apply due diligence

Lippis Report Issue 79: The New Role of IPS & NBAD for Internal NAC-based Security
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Magnifying the Value of Identity Management Technology: NBA Marries ID Data with Network Traffic
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Network World – “NBA: A Slam Dunk"
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SearchNetworking.com –- “Network security hits home run for Detroit Tigers"
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Dark Reading – “University Taps StealthWatch”

WWJ Newsradio 950 IT Report - "Tigers beef up network security"
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Network World – “The business of network behavior analysis”
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techcentral.ie – “StealthWatch tags user identity”
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SiliconRepublic.com – “New forensics software forecast to make an impression”
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Dark Reading – “Top 10 Reasons Security Products Don't Work”
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SearchNetworking.com –- “Remote access, WAN optimization, and network analysis news"
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BLOG: Threat Chaos – “Can you do this?”
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ISSA Journal – "What’s Your View of the Network? Detecting and Preventing Attacks and Monitoring Network Behavior Through sFlow Technology"
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Dark Reading – "Getting to Know NetFlow "
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Computing – -“Matrix signs partnership deal with Lancope”
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Network World – "Lancope Adds Net Optimization to Security Appliance"
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Dark Reading – "Lancope Digs Into User Behavior"
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Dark Reading – "Lancope Intros StealthWatch 5.5"

Healthcare Informatics – "Aurora Keeps the Network Security Roar Down"

SiliconRepublic.com – "Call for increased automation of security"
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InfoWorld – "Telecommuting security concerns grow"
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Network World Face-off: Anomaly detection – "More appealing aspects of flow-based anomaly detection"

Enterprise Networks Asia – "NBA: Attacking the threats within"

Information Security - "Lancope Networks into Europe"
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Information Security - "A Safe Bet"
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Government Executive - "Network Anomalies"
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Network Magazine - Anomaly Detection On the Rise

Security Pipeline - StealthWatch Sneaks Out With New Features
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Lancope boosts traffic-inspection capabilities
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The Traffic Cop: Stopping Bugs in Transit (PDF 68 KB)
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Network detectives sniff for snoops
InfoWorld’s Product Review team evaluates network intrusion detection systems from ISS, Lancope, Snort, and StillSecure. Lancope achieves highest ratings.
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Secure Enterprise - Lancope's StealthWatch XE
This new appliance from Lancope adds on features of StealthWatch for Cisco Netflow networks.
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Network World - The Evolution of IDS
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Sounding the SMB Security Alarm
StealthWatch™ helps SMBs save time analyzing alerts for anomalies that may indicate a threat.
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College Course Prepares Computer Sleuths
Students use StealthWatch™ by Lancope to protect information and systems from viruses, hackers, and illegal intrusion

Lancope’s Chris Hovis is a Featured Expert on Defeating Zero-Day Attacks
With network attacks on the rise, improving security was top of mind at this year’s Networld+Interop conference in Las Vegas.
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Lancope’s StealthWatch™ Software Scopes Networks
StealthWatch™ Management Console appliance, combined with Version 4.1 of its StealthWatch™ system software, makes a network behavior anomaly detection system that’s significantly easier to monitor and manage than before.
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Business sense keeps high-tech firms humming
Despite the technology industry bubble burst in 2000, Lancope Inc. continues to thrive.
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Network detectives sniff for snoops
InfoWorld’s Product Review team evaluates network intrusion detection systems from ISS, Lancope, Snort, and StillSecure. Lancope achieves highest ratings.
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Version 4.1 of the StealthWatch™ system utilizes Network Behavior Analysis (NBA) and Response to reveal and resolve network exposures.

Lancope Updates StealthWatch™ Security
Lancope on Monday updated its flagship StealthWatch™ and StealthWatch™ Console network security solutions.

Security vendors peer inside
Lancope looks inside because it recognizes that despite all of our perimeter defenses, bogeys still get through. Continue reading

What Our Machines Don’t Know
Asimov’s laws of robotics are a warning to IT security practitioners. Continue reading

Product Review: Lancope Monitors Ethernet Traffic
As sophisticated intrusions become more subtle, many administrators are finding that security models built around traditional solutions are increasingly inadequate to protect networks.

Lancope recieves 2004 TAMY Award
Lancope receives Marketing for Growth Award for most impressive markeing efforts from an Emerging Firm

Making Cyberspace SAFER: Information security startups are developing innovative solutions to fend off attackers
ATLANTA HAS BECOME A HUB for information security companies, and a recent surge of entrepreneurial activity is expanding this market. Continue reading

Lancope Secures $12.5M in Series C
Lancope, Inc., the leading provider of network integrity solutions, today announced the closing of its Series C round of financing, led by Canaan Partners. Continue reading

$24M to keep computers safe: Deals show Atlanta is emerging as top city for network security firms
Two Atlanta network security companies — Lancope Inc. and Trusted Network Technologies Inc. (TNT) — have just raised $24.5 million in two separate venture capital rounds. Lancope raised $12.5 million on March 31. TNT raised $12 million on March 26 Continue reading

Chick-fil-A Chooses Lancope for Enhanced Network Protection
Chick-fil-A will use network protection services from Lancope for its chain of restaurants across 37 states. Continue reading

Rethinking IDS
Is IDS really dead? And are newer product categories ready to replace it? Most analysts, as well as IDS and even IPS vendors agree that the answer is “not yet.” Continue reading

ChoicePoint executive tops in info security
Lancope’s Harland LaVigne honors ChoicePoint CISO Continue reading

Test Center Report: Rethinking IDS
False IDS alerts driving you nuts? The best protection against unwanted intrusion may be a layered defense that uses firewalls, IDS, and IPS Continue reading

Helped by Partner Program, Lancope Doubles Customer Base
Lancope, a provider of behavior-based threat detection and network intelligence solutions, experienced record growth in 2003 when the company says it more than doubled its customer base. Continue reading

Vendors Showcase Security
Lancope, Network Associates and Symantec enhance hardware, software. Continue reading

Using a layered security approach to achieve network integrity
Solutions like StealthWatch™ by Lancope are essential to ensuring network integrity. Continue reading

Mystery E-Mail Causes Uproar In GOP Primary
Even on Capital Hill, Internet addresses are easy to fake. Computer worms and viruses steal such information on a daily basis.

Lancope offers Network Protection for distributed enterprises and SMB market
Lancope, Inc., the leading provider of behavior-based threat detection and network intelligence solutions, today announced the general availability of its extended StealthWatch™ product line.

Lancope Appoints Jethro “Jet” Defensor to Launch US Government Initiatives
Lancope, Inc., an Atlanta-based provider of behavior-based threat detection and network intelligence solutions, appointed Jethro “Jet” Defensor as director of federal sales and business development.

INTRUSION DETECTION StealthWatch™ 3.1
Lancope has bolstered the anomaly detection and analysis capabilities of StealthWatch™ in its 3.1 release. The IDS appliance, which identifies suspicious activity by measuring deviations from baseline traffic, improved its file-sharing detection, DNS resolution and syslog support.

Security Debate Rages
Intrusion-detection critics and backers still sparring months after Gartner salvo. Continue reading

Arabian Computer News: Saudi IT community gathers for security event
Lancope joins more than 75 IT and security managers from industry sectors including banking, government and large enterprises gathered in Saudi Arabia earlier this month for the first in a series of security conferences.

Lancope has deployed StealthWatch™ for the Stanford University School of Medicine, which supports a network of almost 10,000 devices and over 5,000 employees across 30 buildings in Palo Alto, CA. Continue reading

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Roll of the Dice – Lancope capitalizes on the profitable world of casino gambling with Boyd Gaming
Lancope Inc., a network security software provider, recently partnered with Las Vegas-based Boyd Gaming Corp. (NYSE: BYD) to provide its casinos with better defense against hackers and other wrongdoers. Continue reading

“Advances in Network Security and the Continuing Need for Human Control”
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“Fine-Tuning Enterprise Security: It’s time for a holistic reevaluation of security at every point in the network”
Recent Internet viruses and worms have shown that as good as Internet security has become, it is by no means ironclad. The bad news is that it doesn’t look like any amount of spending can buy ironclad security either. That’s really something we’ve known all along. Continue reading

Eminent scholars
Dr. Copeland – a highly respected academic with the ability to grow a business

“Ohio has much to learn from Georgia research program”
Copeland offers his insight in building Lancope with support from the Georgia Research Alliance.

“Who’s Who in Technology”
Harland Lavigne, President and CEO of Lancope, offers his insight as a leader of Georgia’s technology industry. Continue reading

Lancope Punishes P2P
“Network security provider Lancope Inc. is cashing in on the clamp-down against P2P file sharing with a product that detects the behavioral patterns of copyright infringers and shuts them down.” Continue reading

Lancope Punishes P2P
Read about Lancope’s innovative approach to detecting P2P files on networks. Continue reading

Keynote: Top Line Information for IT Buyers “Lancope: Bridging the Gap”
Your business operations and assets are under multiple points of attack, both inside and outside your network. Gartner predicts that by 2005, 60% of security breaches will be caused by insiders and estimates that today 65% of network risks result from misconfigured devices. intelligence to more effectively secure their network infrastructure and ensure availability. Continue reading

Inside NIP Hype
“Traffic-analysis intrusion-prevention products, like Lancope, monitor traffic patterns and capture snapshots of what constitutes normal traffic—traffic rates, which computers make connections to other computers, and so on—creating a picture of network behavior.” Continue reading

“Playing Favorites: Just what type of company is the apple of a venture capitalist’s eye?”
While economic atrophy has given pause to risk-loving venture capitalists, software remains a soft spot for many investors. Continue reading

“Internet Invasion-Is the Web Secure?”
“The end of the cyber-world: Coming soon to a PC near you? Some say it could happen, and the results would be ugly indeed.”

“SciTrek adds new board members, advisory members”
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Lancope showcases the StealthWatch™ behavior-based IDS solutions in a general Challenge. Check out how we answered the 2003 Network Magazine IDS/IPS Challenge.

“Shut the Gates: New ‘Trojan Horse’ Is Latest Security Threat, Lancope Says”
The ever-evolving hacker industry recently has introduced another threat, and tech executives had better prepare for it, warns security firm Lancope. Continue reading

Gartner hammers IDS limitations
…“We agree with a fair amount of the criticism surrounding traditional IDSs”, said Chris Hovis, a vice president at IDS vendor Lancope… Continue reading

IDS criticisms kindle debate
A Gartner Inc. report that called intrusion-detection systems a failed technology that isn’t cost-effective evoked fervent reactions last week from users, vendors and analysts on both sides of the argument. Continue reading

Don't dis' my IDS
“…these innovations herald a renaissance for intrusion detection, not its demise. In my opinion, the Gartner report not only harms an industry dedicated to protecting computer networks, it also has the potential to harm those with insufficient technical grounding to understand why their conclusions are so clearly wrong.” Continue reading

Week in Security: Microsoft’s Antivirus Move, Gartner Says…
IDS vendors responded sharply to Gartner’s assessment, including Lancope executives, who said that redirecting dollars towards firewalls overlooks the…

New Breed of Trojan Raises Security Concerns
…to scan IP addresses at a rate that enables it to scan about 90 percent of the IP addresses on the Internet in 24 hours, according to officials at Lancope Inc… Continue reading

CISO Strategies: Rinse and Repeat
BOB WYNN Chief Information Security Officer, State of Georgia – “We certainly get false positives, and there’s no promise that we’ll catch everything. But, in general, I’m pleased with the mix of signature- and behavioral-based IDSes we have.”

Behavior-Based IDS: Stealthwatch™ Overview and Deployment Methodology
Host profiling is the process of passively identifying and categorizing network resources. Acting as a sort of “passive port scanner,” StealthWatch™ monitors network hosts’ activity and builds a profile for each network host. This profile includes the client and server connections created by each network host. Continue reading

StealthWatch™ enables users to rapidly identify, prioritize and respond to malicious network and host behavior by dynamically detecting deviations from normal traffic patterns and acceptable security policies.

News and Analysis: One the Move
IDS vendor Lancope announced Dennis C. Bottorff joined the company’s board of directors. Bottorff is chairman of Council Ventures, which recently led a round of funding for Lancope (see Funding chart).

Behavior-based IDS detects security events based on traffic anomalies.
Lancope announces StealthWatch™ v3.0

Kentucky Business Online
Council Ventures, a Nashville venture capital firm, has joined with two other venture capital businesses to invest $5 million in Lancope, an Atlanta provider of anti-hacking solutions for enterprise networks.

InternetAcceleration News Summary
Lancope, raised an additional $5M in second round of funding. Continue reading

Intrusion prevention to highlight RSA show
Lancope will unveil the third version of its $20,000 StealthWatch™ IDS appliance, adding graphic visualization of traffic and a way to establish different IDS monitoring policies for different LAN segments through logical groups. In the next six months, Lancope expects to have a version of StealthWatch™ that will do active blocking as well. Continue reading

SearchSecurity.com at RSA Conference 2003 - Lancope adds behavior-based protection to IDS
Lancope, Inc. announced StealthWatch™ v3.0, a behavior-based intrusion detection system (IDS) that allows enterprises to identify, prioritize and respond to malicious network and host behavior. Continue reading

Gearing Up For July 1, 2003 - Senate Bill 1386 - How Does It Affect You?
“On July 1, 2003, Senate bill 1386 becomes Civil Code 1798.82. In a nutshell, the law states that any person or company doing business in the state of California is responsible for notifying California residents of security breaches to their non-encrypted information…” Continue reading

Network Security – The Need for Human Control
Some industry analysts are suggesting that network intrusion detection systems should be migrating toward “intrusion protection systems,” by incorporating the capability to automatically cut off the connectivity of misbehaving hosts. Can this really be done? Is this truly proactive information security? Continue reading

With security, simplicity isn't best
All IT managers strive for simplicity. Heck, who doesn’t want work to be less complex? Who doesn’t want a turnkey solution? Who doesn’t crave out-of-the-box gear? But when you’re talking about security, simplicity should not be a determining factor. Continue reading

Protecting the Police
Lancope wins a multiyear contract to protect the Computer Crimes Investigation and Criminal Research units of the New York City Police Department. Continue reading

LANCOPE WINS OUTSTANDING EMERGING TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS AWARD AT THE AEA SOUTHEASTERN “SPIRIT OF ENDEAVOR” AWARDS PROGRAM – APR 28, 2003
Lancope, Inc., the leading provider of Advanced Threat Protection solutions, announced that it received the Outstanding Emerging Technology Business Award at the American Electronic Association’s inaugural AeA Southeastern “Spirit of Endeavor” Awards Program held Wednesday, April 23, 2003, at Atlanta’s Fox Theatre…

Lancope Wins Outstanding Emerging Technology Business Award In the AeA Southeastern “Spirit of Endeavor” Awards Program
ATLANTA – Lancope, Inc., the leading provider of Advanced Threat Protection solutions, today announced that it received the Outstanding Emerging Technology Business Award at the American Electronic Association’s inaugural AeA Southeastern “Spirit of Endeavor” Awards Program held Wednesday, April 23, 2003, at Atlanta’s Fox Theatre.

The spirit of technology
The Southeastern AeA (formerly the American Electronics Association) honored eight local companies and their executives for their achievements in the past year as part of the 2003 Spirit of Endeavor awards. Continue reading

Georgia slips in garnering venture capital
Georgia tumbled down the list of states for venture capital in the first quarter, ranking 12th with 15 deals worth $74.1 million, as telecommunications investing stalled.

CSO Magazine Delivers Value for Lancope, Inc.
While advances in technology create new and exciting business opportunities, companies must make sure the only people with access to sensitive information and physical resources are trusted allies.

StealthWatch™ receives stellar review!
StealthWatch™ employs a completely different approach to traditional IDS, based on signature recognition. Instead of looking for signatures, it ‘learns’ what kind of activity is normal on your network and looks for abnormal events…

Tactical Security 101: Event Correlation
While technology designed to complement IDS, such as Lancope’s StealthWatch™, is taking steps away from traditional signature-based solutions, most NIDS products are still plagued by false alerts and can overwhelm administrators… Continue reading