Spin-Off Niometrics Provides Network Traffic Analysis

With an increasing amount of text, image, software, audio, video being streamed and sent online, applications protocols used, there is a greater need for network traffic analysis on the part of enterprises to manage traffic and identify data leakage. Niometrics is one networking and security company that enables security-sensitive, high-end organisations and enterprises to make use of their layer-7 network traffic analysis technology to look out for policy violations and prevent data leakage.

The Problem – IT Managers Losing Control

On a typical enterprise network, there are more than 500 different applications at use and even more installed by employees for productivity or leisure. This makes the job of identifying malicious software or vendors tricky.

According to Niometrics, “existing traffic shaping, content filtering, and firewall solutions are oblivious to most of these applications”, but with their solution, this problem can be lessened.

Niometrics’ Core Technology

Niometrics’ core expertise is in layer-7 network traffic analysis technology, with applications in enterprise network audit, policy enforcement, traffic management, and data leakage prevention.

It is built around CUB4, a technology Niometrics licensed from Exploit Technologies, the marketing and commercialisation arm of the Singapore Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR).

According to Dr. Kostas Anagnostakis, founder and CTO of Niometrics,

“The concerns about Web 2.0 applications and productivity loss are only the tip of the iceberg: there are thousands of other applications and network protocols putting IT infrastructure at risk of misuse or malware infections. The CUB4 engine can already identify more than 4,000 different applications, including a growing number of applications and Trojans that actively try to conceal themselves through encryption or obfuscation.”

Niometrics’ Flagship Product – NWOW Policy Enforcer

But technology is not all to Niometrics. Backed up by a team of analysts who help identify and interpret potentially harmful network behaviours.

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