It is hard to imagine life without the ability to email, send text messages, surf the web, and chat via Instant Messaging from almost anywhere, to anyone at anytime. For many employees, these network-centric communications are the principal mode of information exchange. On one hand the barriers to communications have been knocked down and replaced with lightening fast communications. At the same time, the safety that was inherent to the old manual ways of communicating has also disappeared.
Today, organizations face growing security concerns from both external and internal threats, increased regulatory mandates that require significant controls on information, access and employee actions as well as the rising costs associated with failures to protect information and/or non-compliance.
The numbers are in… The number of "insider" incidences making the news and the related financial impact seems to be ever-increasing. This fact is easily demonstrated by recent headlines such as the loss of 26.5 million identities at the Department of Veterans Affairs or the well publicized theft of 36 million Visa and MasterCard cardholder records from Card Systems. It comes as no surprise that in a recent American Management Association (AMA) survey, more organizations are increasingly considering employee monitoring efforts.
Similarly, organizations need to proactively address governance issues such as enforcing its Acceptable Use Policy as it relates to internal user communications by using tools such as employee monitoring software and network content recorders. It will only require one employee incident and/or legal action to understand the importance of a visible policy enforcement effort.
By using employee monitoring as a policy awareness tool and in the words of one compliance manager, as a means to keep "honest people honest" organizations will help mitigate risk by demonstrating its commitment to doing what is right. There is also a corporate responsibility to shield the employee from harmful material and deter them from getting involved in wrongdoing in the first place.
Chronicle Solutions has created a network content recorder to aid in employee monitoring and digital investigations that is able to easily and intelligently capture, replay and analyze the content in original format. And while this is an extremely easy-to-use and easy-to-learn solution, it is powerful in assisting IT security and compliance professionals to efficiently monitor, respond to alerts and discover potential threats and wrong-doing occurring within their network.
Whether the requirements call for a mobile solution provided by Chronicle’s netReplay® 2500 PORTABLE or the permanent, proactive longer-term benefits found in netReplay® rack-mounted recorders, IT security and compliance professionals will be armed with the most effective content monitoring and digital forensic tool available.
netReplay® will increase credibility of results by replaying exactly what, when, and how content was seen and handled by user, thereby demonstrating both proof of 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.
netReplay® will increase the effectiveness of a security and compliance effort by providing a high-level of precision on what it is collecting and analyzing as well as the correlation of all events that lead to any data leakage or theft. This is accomplished while also complying with any legal requirements, such as privacy and employee rights and statutory limitations.
netReplay® will increase the efficiency of a network security and corporate compliance team by allowing more technical and non-technical personnel to be trained to use the tool. netReplay® is an easy-to-learn and easy-to-use data capture and monitoring tool that provides immediate benefits.
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 records retention, security evaluations 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."
While netReplay® has the ability to reassemble data that has already been collected in full packet capture sessions such as Wireshark (Ethereal) or tcpdump, by using netReplay® up front from the onset (on live network connection), IT security and compliance management staff quickly move from a reactive "capture everything" mode to a much more effective proactive "collect, monitor, research and analyze" approach.
netReplay® will greatly improve productivity by reducing the time and complexity of data and event log analysis. Essentially, with netReplay® IT security and compliance investigators now have the means to find the proverbial "needle in a haystack" in hours versus weeks or even months.