HERNDON, VA – NetWitness Corporation, the leading provider of next generation network security monitoring technology, announced today that the company is enhancing and delivering a free version of its award winning NetWitness Investigator solution.  With today’s announcement, NetWitness is working to initiate a philosophical change in the security industry – providing users at all levels in security, I/T audit, anti-fraud and law enforcement with comprehensive analytical  insight into very technical, complex threats faced by the very smallest to the very largest organizations.  Effective immediately everyone may obtain this fully functional and licensed free version of NetWitness Investigator at: http://download.netwitness.com. Existing security products leave gaps in addressing today’s advanced threats because they rely on signatures, operate at the network layer or are based upon incomplete information. NetWitness Investigator is deployed at some of the largest government and financial institutions in the world to detect and help stop nation-sponsored and organized criminal techniques.  It is also used to monitor insider threats such as rogue users and to verify operational regulatory compliance.  This free version of Investigator, now available to all organizations, will permit users of all levels (novice to expert) to easily analyze and mine large amounts of information – the actual full content of captured traffic.  This approach allows users to rapidlyentify and resolve many of their most complex security problems -- achieving faster and better informed security responses. “This free solution captures and inspects traffic,entifies problems, and can quickly analyze the most advanced network threats – it’s the most powerful insight available and very simple to use,” said Tim Belcher, CTO of NetWitness.  “Today, many organizations have been lulled into a false sense of security because they can’t actually see many of the more sophisticated attacks against their infrastructure. For the first time, we are taking the onus off of the victim and delivering the perfect combination of sophistication and simplicity to protect organizations from even the most advanced threats.  This free resource should be incorporated into the basic training programs and toolkits for security and audit staffs.  If you use WireShark, you’ll really appreciate Investigator.” The free version of NetWitness Investigator contains all major features of the Enterprise edition and the NextGen infrastructure.  Version 8.6 of NetWitness Investigator provides users with significantly enhanced protection to analyze network sessions and deliver increased insight into all traffic and context.  New features include SSL decryption and analysis of encrypted network traffic; interactive charts for instantaneous analysis; and enhanced content views for numerous protocols and applications. About NetWitness NetWitness® Corporation provides patented next generation network monitoring software products that enable organizations to achieve Total Network Knowledge™. Users of NetWitness NextGen™ can concurrently solve a wide variety of network and security problems, including, insider threat management, data leakage protection, malware activity detection, network performance management, GRC verification and network-based e-discovery. Originally, developed for the US Intelligence Community, NetWitness has evolved to provide enterprises with breakthrough methods of network content analysis and risk verification and determination. Customers include Defense, National Law Enforcement and Intelligence Agencies, Top 10 U.S. Banks, Critical Infrastructure, and Fortune 1000 organizations. To download the free version of NetWitness Investigator, visit http://download.netwitness.com. 

For more information about securing your organization with NetWitness NextGen, contact: sales@netwitness.com.