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Solera Networks is a Hot Company

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

Network Forensics Leader Joins Network Products Guide’s Winners Circle for 2009; Need for Network Forensics Underscored by Conficker

LINDON, UT – March 31, 2009

Solera Networks, a provider of innovative network forensics software and search appliances, today announced that it has been named a 2009 Hot Company by Network Products Guide, a leading technology solutions publication. The company’s president and CEO Steve Shillingford presented last week at the awards ceremony and 2009 Technosium World Executive Alliance Summit in San Francisco to an audience of industry and end-user executives, including Chief Information Officers (CIOs) and Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs).

Solera Networks stood out from among the pool of applicants – a group that included established, international players of all sizes and industries – in particular, because of its accomplishments in the burgeoning field of network forensics. Solera Networks’ innovative set of network capture, search and regeneration technology fill a conspicuous gap in the current security tools landscape by addressing the often-overlooked incident response element of information assurance. Additionally, the company’s experienced executives, strategic product positioning, and standout revenue growth helped to secure the award.

The need for network forensics has never been more urgent, given the increasingly insidious nature and frequency of threats. As the most recently publicized threat from GhostNet cyber espionage and the purveyors of Conficker demonstrate, despite our best efforts as an industry, there will always be instances where predetermination and prevention isn’t possible. In these cases, the focus must turn to incident response where network forensics is key. Determining the scope of the damage, followed by remediation and fortification is where network forensics and Solera Networks’ solutions are self-evidently crucial.

While most companies have a host of threat deterrents-including firewalls, anti-virus, IPS, SIEM, or DLP platforms—these tools can only protect against known threats, leaving systems and networks vulnerable to malware like Conficker, which had not been seen until recently. That is why these tools fail to report on a breach 96 percent of the time, according to research conducted by the 2008 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report. The Solera Networks DS Series solutions help companies replay network traffic when an anomaly is detected and provide precise visibility into where and when a breach occurred and how it affected connected systems. Using the unique Negative Day Threat Detection™ capability, companies can go back in time, identify, remediate, and fortify the network more quickly and effectively; reducing the work by valuable IT resources and mitigating further risk and exposure. Only the Solera Networks DS Series solutions can capture and replay network traffic on today’s fastest physical and virtual networks.

“This award further solidifies Solera Networks’ distinction as a leading innovator in the emerging field of network forensics,” said Shillingford. “We are grateful for this recognition and look forward to helping organizations of all sizes improve their overall security posture with the effective use of this technology.”

For more about the Networks Products Guide’s 2009 Hot Company Winners, please visit: http://www.networkproductsguide.com/index.html.

About Technosium Executive Alliance Forums

Technosium Executive Alliance Forums are bringing industry vendors and end-users together through interactive meetings. Technosium has received support from associations and industry leaders including Association of Information Technology Professionals, Information Systems Security Association, Silicon Valley Communications, San Jose Mercury News – The Newspaper of Silicon Valley, Wi-Fi Alliance, Trusted Computing Group, Information Security Professionals Association, Network Products Guide, Personal Broadband Industry Association, Covenant, Wireless Communications Alliance, Technology Lawyer, and Stanford Graduate School of Business. For more details please visit www.technosium.com

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Solera Networks Joins NCOIC

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

Solera Networks™ Heightens Awareness of Network Forensics Technology, Joins Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium

LINDON, UT — December 16, 2008 – Solera Networks, a provider of innovative network forensics software and search appliances, today announced that it has joined the Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC™). As part of the NCOIC’s hundred plus member global organization, Solera Networks will work to help raise industry and federal awareness about network forensics technology and the vital role it plays in maintaining cyber security. The company plans to help drive the Consortium’s open standards and recommendations, which accelerate and ensure secure, reliable interoperability of network-centric applications across a spectrum of joint interagency, intergovernmental, and multinational industrial and commercial operations.

Solera Networks’ expertise is well-suited for NCOIC’s cyber security projects. The company will take part to inform industry and government officials within the U.S. and worldwide about the capabilities of traffic capture, regeneration and search technology. It will also emphasize the important role this technology plays in accounting for and quelling network security breaches. Through its participation in such projects, the company also hopes to better understand various initiatives around cyber security and gain insight into the competitive global market landscape.

“We are extremely pleased to have Solera Networks join NCOIC,” said Terry Morgan, Executive Council Chair for NCOIC. “We’re looking forward to their participation in the consortium and incorporating the addition of their insight and expertise as we fold network forensics into our open standards and practices—before this emerging field of technology becomes a fixture in the commercial marketplace.”

Solera Networks’ adoption of open standards and common processes recommended by NCOIC also promises direct benefits for its partners and customers. Most notably, the company’s compliance with these standards and processes sets the stage for reduced administrative, upgrade and systems integration costs for the products it develops. It also improves partners’ and customers’ readiness and response during systems integration, and helps them to quickly introduce emerging, yet vital technology into operational capabilities.

“By actively participating in NCOIC, Solera Networks will continue to advocate the growing need for network forensics to support today’s cyber security initiatives,” said Steve Shillingford, CEO of Solera Networks. “In a world with evolving security threats, it’s important that we provide our customers with as much interoperability as possible. Such flexibility allows cyber security professionals to rapidly and more effectively respond to pervasive network attacks and stop the loss of data.”

For more information about NCOIC, visit: https://www.ncoic.org/home.

About Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium

The Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC) is a not-for-profit multinational corporation committed to integrating existing and emerging open standards into a common evolving global framework, employing a common set of principles and processes, to assist with rapid global deployment of network-centric applications. Established in 2004, NCOIC consists of representatives from defense companies, large-scale systems integrators, information technology providers, government agencies and academia working in concert with an advisory body composed of government officials, and other stakeholders.

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Product Excellence Award Finalist

Friday, October 12th, 2007

Solera Networks named finalist for the Global Product Excellence Award by Info Security Products Guide.

Solera Networks DS capture and stream-to-storage appliance is honored as a finalist in two categories — Global Excellence in Forensics Solution and Excellence in Vulnerability Assessment/Remediation. Info Security Products Guide, published and printed in Silicon Valley is the world’s leading publication on security-related products and technologies.

These prestigious global awards recognize security and IT vendors with advanced, ground-breaking products and solutions that are helping set the bar higher for others in all areas of technologies. Solera Networks DS appliance was voted a finalists by more than 11,000 worldwide voters consisting of end-users, channel partners and readers of Info Security Products Guide. Vendors themselves were not permitted to vote for their products.

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Solera Networks Updates Solera CALEA Appliance; Experiences Strong Customer Adoption

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

Solera Networks CALEA (Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act) appliance continues to gain momentum, giving Internet and VoIP service providers a low-cost, plug-and-play solution to capture and store all network traffic to support law enforcement requests for “network wiretaps”

Las Vegas, Nevada (Interop) – May 22, 2007

Solera Networks, a leading provider of lossless network packet capture and playback appliances, announced the immediate availability of the Solera CALEA Appliance v2.5. This updated version provides a number of enhancements that further ease ISP and VoIP service providers’ ability to facilitate lawful intercept requests by being able to capture, record and playback all network traffic.

Numerous customers have adopted the Solera CALEA Appliance as their solution to easily and inexpensively comply with lawful intercept requests from law enforcement agencies (LEA’s). They also use it to record and analyze their own network traffic to achieve optimized performance and improve customer satisfaction.

“We’ve seen tremendous adoption of our CALEA appliance because it not only helps service providers easily comply with CALEA, but they can also use it to monitor and improve the performance of their own networks,” said Bryan Sparks, Chairman and CTO at Solera Networks. “Only Solera Networks offers this dual-purpose product for customers, all for under $10,000.”

The Solera CALEA Appliance is a 1U rack mounted device capable of capturing at GigE and OC12 rates, has onboard storage capacity of 800 GB, and is designed to be deployed via a SPAN port or network regeneration TAP, allowing for streamlined and invisible network packet capture without affecting network performance. Solera Networks’ TimeShift™ filtering and regeneration technology provides the ability to fulfill lawful intercept requests based on physical layer MAC addressing, Internet Protocol addressing, payload, or protocol types. The Solera CALEA appliance uses the same technology found in the Solera DS line of packet capture appliances that supports up to 10 Gbps networks and provides the option for unlimited storage capacity.

“Our initial goal was to just find a solution that would get us compliant with CALEA regulations,” said Charlie Boening, Network Manager at Cal-Ore Telephone. “We were pleasantly surprised to find the Solera CALEA appliance not only meets our needs for CALEA, it also helps us monitor our own network traffic, identify intrusions, strengthen weak areas in our network and provides a better experience for our customers. We couldn’t find another solution that would provide this multi-purpose role at the price Solera Networks offered.”

The Solera CALEA appliance has received a number of enhancements including:

The ability to provide multiple taps, each delivering data to different LEA’s. This provides ISPs and VoIP providers a single box solution that can service more than one warrant at a time, from different LEA’s.
Support for Service Independent Intercept (SII) for implementation with Cisco networks. This provides a solution where simple SPAN port capture won’t meet network capture requirements. Now, network administrators can direct SII traffic directly to a Solera CALEA appliance for delivery to LEA’s.
System management enhancements to simplify the configuration of lawful intercept taps and updates to system settings. An updated GUI provides access to these new capabilities.

Availability

The Solera CALEA 2.5 Appliance is available today through resellers or directly from Solera Networks. For more information on the Solera CALEA Appliance, visit: http://www.soleranetworks.com/solutions/calea-compliance.php or contact Solera Networks at 801 623-5705.

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CALEA Compliance Appliance

Wednesday, March 14th, 2007

Solera Networks, Inc., the technology leader in network packet record and playback appliances, today announced the immediate availability of its CALEA (Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act) appliance, designed to achieve compliance for the upcoming May 14, 2007 FCC mandate for lawful intercept support.

“The rapid evolution of technology has been a boon for global communications; however, it has brought with it challenges for law enforcement agencies to execute authorized surveillance,” said Terry Haas, CEO of Solera Networks. “As such, CALEA was enacted to help ensure law enforcement agencies have the ability to conduct electronic surveillance. It requires telecommunications carriers to have the ‘necessary surveillance capabilities’ readily available. The Solera CALEA Appliance removes the weight of these requirements with an elegant packet capture solution to capture, archive, and regenerate network traffic data with unprecedented ease of use.”

The 1U Solera CALEA Appliance is capable of capturing at OC12 data rates, has onboard storage capacity of 800 GB, and is designed to be deployed via a SPAN port or network TAP, allowing for streamlined and invisible network packet capture. Solera’s patent-pending TimeShift™ filtering and regeneration technology provides the ability to fulfill lawful intercept requests based on physical layer MAC addressing, Internet Protocol addressing, payload, or protocol types. The intuitive Command Center web console provides immediate and streamlined access to the appliance, enabling customized packet capture and regeneration on demand.

Used in conjunction with hundreds of commercial and/or open-source applications, the Solera CALEA Appliance enables flexible and complete CALEA compliance.

The Solera CALEA Appliance is available directly from Solera Networks or through Solera Networks’ Authorized Resellers with leasing options available. Please contact sales@soleranetworks.com or call 801-623-5714 or visit CALEA Compliance for more information.

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Storage Increase – 12 TB

Monday, November 6th, 2006

Solera Networks doubles storage capacity of DS series packet recorders – Greater storage density reduces cost of network packet storage for security, network management, and forensics

Solera Networks, Inc., the technology leader in network monitoring and management products, announces the immediate availability of higher storage capacities of 12 TB (terabytes) for the DS Packet Recorder appliances and the DS Archive device. Multiple DS Archive devices can be added for a total storage capacity of 240 TB. This capability, unmatched in the industry, allows customers to collect and archive all network communications for weeks or months on a single device (depending on network traffic volume).

“The price/performance advantage of Solera’s solutions over those of our competitors is accelerating,” said Terry Haas, President and CEO of Solera Networks. “Given the increasingly ominous security threatscape, as well as the growing regulatory burden impacting IT departments everywhere, we believe that full network packet capture and archiving must become a standard component of every data center’s infrastructure. We are committed to making these solutions practical and affordable to customers of all sizes.”

Based on proprietary system software and the DS infinite storage file system, Solera Networks DS appliances achieve over 2X the sustainable capture and stream to disk rates of competitive products and can directly address disk storage in excess of 240 TB.

The DS series appliances capture LAN and WAN traffic of all types including T1, E1, digital, T3, DS3, E3, VoIP, HSSI, and all other packetized transport protocols. Up to 10 capture or regeneration ports can be configured on each device with 10/100, GigE, 10GbE, or Fiber Channel adapters.

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DS Series Product Watch

Thursday, January 5th, 2006

Solera Networks products were featured in the Datamation Product Watch

The flagship offering from Solera Networks is their DS Series of appliances, which specialize in the capture of traffic from gigabit networks to both included and external disk-based storage arrays. This captured traffic can be made available in several ways to 3rd party traffic analysis products and tools; thus the primary use of the product is the gathering of traffic for the use of 3rd party network forensics applications such as performance optimization or security analysis.

To read the complete story go to Datamation.com

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Scalable 128TB Device

Wednesday, January 4th, 2006

Solera Networks Offers Storage Support Scalable to 128TeraBytes of Networks Forensics Storage.

Solera Networks, a premier provider of deep network packet capture appliances, announces today support for up to 128TBytes of network forensics stream-to-disk storage.

The Solera DS series of Linux 2.6-based network packet capture appliances offer storage of captured network traffic. This data is managed as a first-in-first-out (FIFO) self-annotated on-disk cache. As such, the Solera DS appliances and DSFS File Systems provides an infinite storage architecture which allows network administrators a time-based view of stored network traffic. The time window of captured traffic is dependent on average network traffic rates and the quantity of attached storage.

“Many of our customers want weeks or months of network packet capture,” said the VP of Sales and Marketing for Solera Networks. “Some want much more time for views to traffic and events that happened. This increased time window allows our customers to have a forensics trail of all events that happened should there be a need to investigate a network management or security concern.”

Solera offers a 3U configured capture appliance, the DS 3000. This appliance has 6.4TB of in-chassis storage and Fibre Channel support for Solera managed external storage. This external storage is offered in two ways; Solera provides storage nodes (DS 4000) that are 3U configured 6.4TB storage boxes that can be attached to a Fibre Channel switch. Up to 20, DS 4000 storage nodes can be configured to a single DS 3000 giving over 128TB of captured data. Additionally, customers have the option of attaching storage supplied by others attached to the Fibre Channel switch. Both of these storage options are directly managed by the Solera Networks storage software of the DS 3000.

This attached network forensics storage is viewed to forensics and management applications as either time-indicated LIBPCAP files or through Solera’s unique “virtual Ethernet devices”. These two access methods provide a “no-API” interface to the captured network traffic. Additionally, time-based windows of captured traffic can be retransmitted or regenerated to external appliances or applications including both Linux and Windows-based applications.

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