29 August 2011
Endace Research Report Reveals Enterprises Not Ready to Handle Security Risks with 10Gb/s Networks
Endace Research Report Reveals Enterprises Not Ready to Handle Security Risks with 10Gb/s Networks
Auckland, New Zealand — August 29, 2011 — Endace (LSE: EDA), world leaders in network monitoring and recording, today announced the results of its 2011 Network Visibility Monitor in a report titled “Why 10Gb/s Breaks Corporate Security Guidelines.” The survey shows that senior networking, operations and security professionals in telecommunications, online services, retail, manufacturing and healthcare have serious concerns about the impact that the transition to 10 gigabit-per-second networking is having on their ability to see into their networks.
Between February and June 2011, an independent research agency based in North America conducted more than 200 telephone interviews with networking and security professionals from 100 organizations with revenues of at least $10 billion and a national presence across North America. The object was to try to understand what impact the migration to 10Gb/s networking was having on operations and how it was affecting the ability to measure, monitor and protect critical systems.
The results indicate that close to three-quarters of the organizations have made the transition to 10GB/s networking in at least one area of their data networks. An additional 12 percent of the organizations plan to make the transition in the next 12 months. Slightly less than half of the respondents said their organizations have 40Gb/s and/or 100Gb/s networking on their IT roadmaps for the next three to five years.
“Today’s bigger, faster networks present huge opportunities for business growth and improved functionality as well as huge challenges,” said Tim Nichols, vice president of global marketing at Endace. “However, the majority of organizations that we spoke to expressed concerns about their software’s ability to manage these huge throughput environments. In fact, close to half of the respondents we talked to reported experiencing significant difficulties investigating and remediating network events.”
Highlights of the survey include:
- 84 percent of respondents have concerns about their incumbent vendors’ abilities to manage 10Gb/s throughput environments
- 47 percent of respondents believe they are missing potentially significant network events due to failing or under-performing systems
- 78 percent of organizations recognize “strong correlation” between network security and their ability to satisfy government mandated information security requirements (compliance)
- 65 percent of organizations surveyed do not record network traffic for the purposes of forensic analysis of network events
- 33 percent of organizations reported having experienced some kind of data loss in the last 12 months with 39 percent being unable to accurately identify what was lost
- 42 percent of organizations admitted to having been the victim of a cyber-attack in the last 12 months, with 67 percent of those admitting to serious problems investigating the attack.
A comprehensive overview of the survey results can be found here.
These results appear to indicate that the shift to 10Gb/s networks may result in significant network security blind spots that may expose organizations to unacceptable levels of risk. In addition, it seems likely that organizations are not asking the right questions of application vendors and run the risk of making investments that won’t scale to meet their needs within the amortization window. However, there is now an accurate way for organizations to use their own network traffic to figure out the point that a system fails to see every threat and avoid the risk of reputation damage and litigation from preventable security breaches. For more information, please read about Endace Capture Replay Systems.
About Endace
Endace provides open network monitoring and recording systems that form the basis for mission-critical network security, monitoring and measurement solutions. Endace network monitoring systems are designed to be deployed from the edge to the core of the network, creating a complete monitoring and recording fabric on top of which a range of custom, open-source or commercial application performance monitoring tools can be deployed.
One hundred percent packet capture is now widely accepted as a non-negotiable input to applications that are being used to help organizations manage risk, reputation and compliance. Based on proprietary DAG® I/O technology, Endace’s network monitoring systems and network packet sniffer tools have a global reputation for consistently monitoring and recording 100 percent of network traffic on any network interface and at any speed from 10Mb/s to 100Gb/s.
Based in Auckland, New Zealand, Endace also has offices in the U.K. and the United States. Quoted on London's AIM, the stock code is LSE: EDA.
Media Contacts:
Tim Nichols
tim.nichols@endace.com
+64 9 926 2884
Caitlin Hunt
endace@schwartzcomm.com
+1 (781) 684-0770