EMC Acquires NetWitness

IT company EMC today announced its acquisition of NetWitness, a security analysis corporation based in Reston, Va.

NetWitness will become part of RSA, a security division of EMC. Combining the two enterprises will give security teams a deeper insight into the security outline of their organizations.

NetWitness provides security teams the resources…

NetWitness Named among Fastest-Growing ‘Future 50′

NetWitness Corporation and CEO Amit Yoran have been named recipients of the Washington SmartCEO Fast 50.

Future 50 recognizes 50 local Washington, D.C., area companies based on their revenue and employee growth over a three-year period. These companies, each of which earn in excess of $10…

Robert Carey, Cyber Luminaries to Keynote DC Breakfast Meeting

The Defense Department’s the new Deputy CIO and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Robert Carey will deliver his first-ever public address in his new role tomorrow.

The breakfast briefing “New Frontiers of Cybersecurity: Emerging DoD and DHS Cybersecurity Strategies,” produced by CyberSecurity Seminars, will be held between 8-10:30 a.m. at Crowell &…

NetWitness CEO Amit Yoran Joins Ridge Global’s Board

Security and risk management services provider Ridge Global has appointed Amit Yoran, CEO of NetWitness Corporation, to its board of advisers.

“Amit Yoran brings exceptional skills, insights and experience to the areas of cybersecurity, risk management and national security,” said Tom Ridge, president and CEO of Ridge Global. “As cyber threats…

Richard A. Clarke, Orson Swindle to Keynote NetWitness Conference

World-recognized cyber and homeland security expert Richard A. Clarke and Orson Swindle, former Federal Trade Commission commissioner, will be delivering keynote addresses at the 2nd Annual NetWitness User Conference, held Oct. 25-26, 2010 in Washington, D.C.

Clarke, currently chairman of Good Harbor Consulting, is an on-air consultant for ABC News and…

NetWitness Named One of Fastest-Growing Firms

NetWitness Corporation has been named the 21st fastest-growing private company on Inc. Magazine’s “Inc. 500″ annual review.

The company has had 7,745.8 percent three-year growth, making it the fastest-growing privately held enterprise security product company and the fastest growing in the Washington, D.C., area.

“We started NetWitness to address a critical issue facing both …

Cyber Experts Give Gloomy Diagnosis

Today’s cyber threats are not preventable and there is currently no way to defend any large-scale environment, said Amit Yoran, CEO of NetWitness Corporation at yesterday’s cyber conference in New York.

Agence France-Presse reported how this bleak forecast comes from the FBI-sponsored conference at Fordham University in a time when the Internet and society are…

“It doesn’t matter how you define cyberwar,” says Amit Yoran

A central debate in recent months has been over the issue of cyber warfare and whether or not one is occurring presently. Mike McConnell, currently of Booz Allen and former DNI, wrote an article in the Washington Post in which he said that the U.S. was currently engaged in a cyber…

NetWitness CEO Amit Yoran: ‘There is a Lack of Visibility’

During the RSA Conference, Amit Yoran, CEO of NetWitness Corp., discussed the challenges in dealing with the issue of cyber warfare, along with Scott Borg, director and CEO of the Cyber Consequences Unit.

Yoran discussed some of the challenges facing cyber defenders in the coming years, particularly the difficulty in seeing the threats…

Hackers Use Social Media, Stolen IDs to Perform Cyber Attacks

New research suggests that during last year’s five-day war between Russia and Georgia, Russian hackers used a combination of hijacked American identities and U.S. software tools to carry out an attack on Georgian governmental websites. A major issue with cyber warfare is that current military and international agreements do not yet account for the use of new American technologies as weapons.

The U.S. Cyber Consequences Unit has determined that to…