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NETWORK ASSOCIATES UNVEILS "BLACK
BOX" FOR GRIDS
Security software and services provider Network Associates Incunveiled a
"black box" that records all of the data passing through corporate
networks.
The Santa Clara, California-based company said its new product,
InfiniStream Security Forensics, allows users to analyze security breaches,
virus threats and performance problems by accessing recent activity on the
network.
Chris Thompson, vice president of marketing at Network Associates' Sniffer
division, which makes network maintenance software, likened the InfiniStream
product to the black box on airplanes that stores flight record and cockpit
conversations.
"We can see everything that flows through the network and keep up to two
and a half days of data for a typical gigabit site customer," Thompson said,
referring to the standard speed that large corporate networks use to manage
their data.
InfiniStream can capture and record all of the file transfers, Web
accesses, e-mail, instant messaging conversations and Internet-basedvoice
traffic, Network Associates said.
A network with such a black box would have, for example, helped to prevent
the spread of the recent SQL Slammer worm, which nearly shut down Web access
in South Korea, shut down automatic teller machines and paralyzed corporate
networks.
InfiniStream, which is already being released to a limited number of
customers, will be available early in the third quarter of this year and will
be priced at approximately $85,000, Network Associates said.
Shares of Network Associates closed 3.37% lower at $14.07 on Nasdaq.
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