Network Intelligence adds analysis to security tools

Network Intelligence Wednesday released an upgraded version of its software along with a line of appliances that support it, which the company says will provide enterprise security managers with deeper analysis tools for potential security threats.

Network Intelligence Wednesday released an upgraded version of its software along with a line of appliances that support it, which the company says will provide enterprise security managers with deeper analysis tools for potential security threats.

EnVision Version 2.003 can now perform baseline comparisons, which lets security administrators put activities from different timeframe in a side-by-side comparison to better weed out “low and slow” security attacks.

“We’ve included a security threat taxonomy that helps security managers look for similarities in patterns and track connections over time that may be signs of a vulnerability,” says Matt Stevens, vice president of technology and marketing for Network Intelligence. He says the new baseline capabilities will help security managers access comparative data that may have been unavailable or difficult to compile in the past.

Also new in this release are customized alerts and additional device support. EnVision 2.003 lets security managers set parameters specific to their networks, and then the software uses the pre-set policies to alert them if a problem occurs.

Network Intelligence also introduced the 50 Series Network Intelligence appliances. The 50 Series is designed for both small-to-midsize and enterprise companies. Network Intelligence says the appliances feature better processing power, storage capacity, network connectivity and data safety. Network Intelligence provides between 300 gigabytes and 3 terabytes of storage. And the newest version of the software can correlate up to 35,000 messages from up to 54 vendor source devices.

The company also unveiled the 7550-HA Series application, which is a high-end appliance with embedded software that can handle more events per second.

Network Intelligence software and hardware now support more security devices such as Jupiter Networks routers, Foundry Networks switches, nCircle’s IP360 vulnerability management system, the Cisco Content Services Switch and Check Point Next Generation Application with SmartDefense.

Network Intelligence competes with products from the likes of ArcSight, e-Security, Intellitactics and netForensics. The company offers three flavors of its EnVision software and a variety of appliances on which it runs. SMB customers can get started at around $29,000. Midrange enterprises can purchase products to start for about $59,000, and pricing for large enterprises begins around $190,000.