By Mini SwamyAs the world of cybercrime becomes murkier and more worrisome, the need to analyze long-term, large scale network activity becomes more imperative. Bivio Networks (News - Alert) is attempting to make this happen with the introduction of a new data retention system, Bivio NetFalcon.
Bivio NetFalcon is a Big Data solution for network traffic that performs real-time analytics on long-term, large scale records of network communications, helping to complement real-time detection and protection with offline collection and data analysis, according to company officials.
Dr. Elan Amir (News - Alert), CEO and president at Bivio Networks, said in a press release, “Bringing NetFalcon to the enterprise market provides corporate IT security professionals with an unmatched ability to collect, store, and analyze network activity essential to a comprehensive cyber security strategy.”
Utilizing patent-pending technologies, this solution is considered to be an improvement over existing offline technologies that focus on machine-to-machine data or small scale network activity. NetFalcon combines big data and deep packet inspection technologies.
As it is built to scale at every level, the system is stated to be well positioned to support a complete range of networks. Its real-time capabilities enable users to view the network activity history contextually. Queries can be retrieved instantaneously on Bivio NetFalcon.
All this makes it possible to view long-term network activity, which will help in threat detection, compliance investigation and security enhancement.
Bivio NetFalcon has been successfully installed in a variety of cyber security and intelligence applications around the world and is currently being deployed by many agencies.
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