From universities to local elementary schools, concerns regarding the well-being of the student have always been a top priority. At the elementary school level, the power and the promise of computers and the Internet are quickly tempered by the potential threats and inappropriate content lurking on the other side of the connection.
Similarly, universities are also concerned with content and related activities such as file sharing networks and the illegal uploading or downloading of content (e.g.: MP3s or videos), thereby putting the university at the risk of severe financial fines imposed by the RIAA and the MPAA.
In addition, these institutions have the bigger challenge of dealing with information theft and tampering. These are concerns that are truly troubling some of the world’s leading educational institutions. For example, within the last year, several universities reported the theft of facility and student body information that affected over a half million personal records.
In addition to the fact that hundreds of thousands of personal identity records are now available to spammers and scam-artists, university officials are equally concerned about the safety and accuracy of their academic records. If these records are compromised, so is the perceived value of that school’s diploma. These institutions also open themselves to risk of being in violation of the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) that is designed to insure schools safeguard student privacy.
Lastly, because of the freedom of research activity required for educational advancement, universities have become a target for terrorists to hide their criminal intensions and conduct their research that would perhaps be easier to discover elsewhere. Over the last two years, several schools had staff members that were brought up on terrorism charges. This presents a considerable challenge for educational establishments to balance openness and freedom of access to resources with the need to be responsible and effective authorities.
netReplay® provides educational institutions with a powerful, yet easy-to-use way to monitor, capture, analyze and present (replay) original content that can clearly demonstrate exactly what is happening with the information and communications residing on their networks.
Schools will be able to address concerns regarding inappropriate content and information theft by gaining increased understanding and control over the content flowing through their networks. Through alerts, reporting and periodic targeted reviews of network content, educational institutions will further reduce the risks associated with these challenges.
Delivering consistent, affordable, extremely scalable, proactive long-term benefits, Chronicle provides a selection of netReplay® rack-mounted and portable content recorders to fit a wide range of project and budget requirements.
Because of netReplay’s out-of-the-box capabilities, it can begin to immediately collect data - just plug it in. netReplay® quickly and efficiently captures all data necessary for formal record retention and digital evidence collection.
netReplay® has been described as a "one of a kind, network content DVR (Digital Video Recorder) that eliminates the digital equivalent of commercials." netReplay’s intelligent deep-packet inspection and content capture effectively cuts out the recording of duplicate data and network content "noise", thereby shortening any investigative effort.
netReplay® will greatly improve a school’s ability to demonstrate its "squeaky-clean" status. Essential for tracking proper disclosure and reporting as required by regulations, netReplay® allows the monitoring of content, alerting of IT security staff to possible misuse and tracing of communications to their source.
netReplay® will increase credibility of results by replaying exactly what, when, and how content was seen and handled by a user, thereby demonstrating both proof of the user’s content and related actions. In addition, Chronicle’s Forensic Information Fingerprinting Engine (FIFE™) provides evidence of user activity that is both forensically accurate and credible.
While netReplay® has the ability to reassemble data that has already been collected in full packet capture sessions such as Wireshark (Ethereal) or tcpdump, IT security staff can quickly move from a reactive "capture everything" mode to a much more effective proactive "collect, monitor and analyze" approach by using netReplay® from the onset (on live network connections).
netReplay® will increase the effectiveness of a digital forensics effort by providing a high level of precision on the data it is collecting and analyzing as well as complying with any legal requirements, such as privacy and employee rights and statutory limitations.
netReplay® is an easy-to-learn and easy-to-use digital forensic content monitoring tool that provides immediate benefits. netReplay® will increase the efficiency of any IT security team by allowing more personnel to be trained to use the tool.