In recent years, organizations have seen a global explosion in new legislation and regulatory requirements relating to corporate governance and electronic communications control. As governments and regulatory bodies attempt to keep pace with advances in information technology, the challenges placed upon IT security and compliance management professionals only seem to intensify.
Today, when the data being stored involves Personally Identifiable Information (PII), there are several additional factors to consider. The potential risk of having to publicly disclose that an organization’s security measures failed to stop the theft of PII, the added legal burden for damages involving identity theft can range in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
In addition, in an effort to comply with various regulations, there are significant demands placed on the handling and storage of data. For example, based on SEC 17A-4 regulations, it is critical that Financial Services organizations posses the ability to record and archive all transactions and communications between its employees and the end-consumer. While advances in technology are allowing more forms of communications to reside on the network, the ability to effectively record and play back massive amounts of network content appears to be impossible.
Concurrently, organizations need to proactively address governance issues such as enforcing an Acceptable Use Policy relating to internal user communications. It will only require one employee incident or legal action to understand the importance of a visible policy enforcement effort. Again, complexity and the sheer volume of information can make policy enforcement a daunting task.
Chronicle Solutions has created a network content recorder 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 the mobility and rapid deployment provided by Chronicle’s netReplay® 2500 PORTABLE or the permanent, proactive longer-term benefits found in netReplay® rack-mounted recorders, IT security professionals will be armed with the most effective content monitoring and digital forensic tool available.
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 research and digital evidence collection.
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® has been described as a "One of a kind, Network Content DVR (Digital Video Recorder) that eliminates the digital equivalent to commercials. "netReplay’s intelligent deep-packet inspection and content capture effectively cuts out the recording of duplicate data and network content "noise."
netReplay® will increase credibility of results by replaying exactly what, when, and how it 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 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.
netReplay® will increase the effectiveness of a security effort by providing a high-level of precision on the data 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 greatly improve productivity by reducing the time and complexity of data and event log analysis. Essentially, with netReplay® IT security investigators now have the means to find the proverbial "needle in a haystack" in hours versus weeks or even months.