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 Expands Cloud Offerings

NetWitness Corporation has launched a new product portfolio featuring cloud-based offerings to meet expanding operational use cases for cloud-based services and transformational virtual data center architectures.

With virtualization and cloud computing, the IT organization’s loss of “command and control” requires security teams to emphasize more on comprehensive network monitoring, precise…

‘White House’ Christmas Card Laced with Malware

Cyber crooks used a fake White House email Christmas card to steal data from law enforcement, military and government workers, although analysts said no classified information was compromised, The Associated Press reports.

The Christmas tree-decorated e-card prompted recipients to click on a link, which then downloaded the Zeus malware commonly used to steal passwords and other online credentials. In this case, however, the…

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…

Zeus Trojan Invades Syria’s Financial Sector

Online-banking customers in Syria have been warned to be extra vigilant when conducting their financial matters on the web to avoid falling prey to the Zeus Trojan malware, according to Day Press News.

Cyber criminals using the Zeus Trojan have been able to siphon millions of dollars from bank accounts worldwide by stealing online banking credentials. More than 40,000 variants of the malware have been recorded. In February 2010,…

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…