Snipe releases behavior-based corporate security solution

Published 2 December 2005

Security experts have long been emphasizing that the greatest cybersecurity threats to business come from the inside. Disgruntled or corrupt employees are more difficult to detect and defend against than conniving outsiders. Toronto-based Snipe Networks knows that. The company, specializing in user and network behavior-based anomaly detection and mitigation (NBAD) solutions, is unveiling its latest — the Snipe NetGuard network appliance suite. It aims to protect corporate networks against intrusions and vulnerability exploits caused by internal network users. Snipe NetGuard allows companies to trace anomalous behavior and security policy violations back to individual employees whether the anomaly is network resource misuse, disruptive spyware, unauthorized access, theft of corporate information, identity spoofing, or Zero-Day worm and virus propagation, all without the use of known signatures. Snipe Networks incorporates patent-pending user behavior-based analysis technology to pinpoint the offending user as well as forensic auditing to precisely provide insight into the malicious incident.

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