The company said InfiniStream, based on technology acquired in beta from Traxess Inc last August, will be available to certain NAI customers immediately, with general availability from its Sniffer business scheduled for the third quarter.
InfiniStream combines network sniffing, data storage and forensics. Working at wire speed, a capture engine streams all network traffic to a storage subsystem that can handle 2.9 terabytes of data (about 2.5 days of traffic in a typical deployment, NAI estimates).
A data-mining console allows administrators to increase the capacity of the storage by filtering out the types of traffic they don’t want to watch. A company may decide to capture only voice traffic, for example, or only traffic from certain source IPs.
Finally, the system allows entire sessions to be reconstructed and replayed. Transferred files can be reassembled or VoIP calls played back, for example. This, NAI said, allows administrators to better understand the causes of network breaches or congestion.
Separately this week, NAI said its McAfee Security division has inked a deal with HP that will see the server and services giant bundle McAfee’s Active Client Security or Active VirusScan on HP ProLiant servers.
The bundles will be made available to the companies’ resellers. The target market is small and medium sized businesses, which is where NAI, and much of the security industry, sees a revenue growth opportunity in its current business plan.
As part of the pilot, free training will be provided to VARs. Resellers will also be able to offer a vulnerability assessment service based on McAfee’s ThreatScan software, which scans enterprise networks for potential points of entry for viruses.
Source: Computerwire
