In The News
August 4, 2010 – Salt Lake Tribune
“Our piece of that puzzle is that we provide the ‘camera’ to the network so that when something bad happens, when people get inside the capsule, we record it and digitalize it by keeping it on disk and provide people access to what data left the network,” said Solera CEO Steve Shillingford.”
July 29, 2010 – CIO Insight
Black Hat 10: How PayPal Minimizes GRC Risks
“Verizon is on the right track with their effort to create a way to share data about breaches to help other enterprises identify, defend, and respond to similar events on their network. Real-time network forensics technology helps with this effort by capturing 100% of the network payload — like a security camera for the network,” Peter Schlampp, VP, Marketing and Product Management for Solera Networks, told CIO Insight during an interview following the session. “Don’t fall into the illusion of ‘fire and forget’ — that’s what I call faith-based security. It doesn’t work. You must collect network forensics data that provides a full-fidelity view that’s neither summarized nor signature-based.”
July 29, 2010 – Sramana Mitra: Deal Radar
Deal Radar 2010: Solera Networks
“More than 85% of corporate security officers expect a major network security event in the next three years or had one in the past three years. Half of the same group knows it will take two to ten or more days to discover the full scope of the incident. According to Solera, network forensics reduces the cost of network security incidents to corporations by cutting the time to remediate from days to hours, and eliminates the chance of follow-on attacks.”
July 29, 2010 – CTO Edge
Perfect Citizen Defense Requires Network Forensics
“The NSA, for example, is launching an effort, dubbed Perfect Citizen, to detect when public agencies and private companies are the focus of a specific attack. That’s all well and fine, said Peter Schlampp, vice president of marketing and product management for Solera Networks. But once an attack is detected, security experts are going to want to research exactly what happened. That means, says Schlampp, companies have to be able to play back exactly what happened on their networks at any given time.”
July 27, 2010 – SecurityWeek
“Trident applies a sector-focused and thesis-driven security investment approach that focuses on pressing customer priorities, emerging security threats and regulatory compliance requirements,” said J. Alberto Yépez, Trident Capital managing director.”
July 27, 2010 – Host Exploit
Solera Networks raises $15M for real-time network security
“Solera Networks has raised $15 million in a third round of funding for its real-time network forensics and monitoring business. It’s another sign that the security technology industry is going through a revival.”
July 27, 2010 – PE Hub
As Data Leakage Hits Headlines, Cyber “Forensics” Startup Gets New Talking Point (and VC Funding)
“…not only can Solera pinpoint precisely what information was stolen, but its newest technology enables customers to recreate Web pages visited on their networks.
Because Solera is today announcing a $15 million Series C funding led by Trident Capital — the five-year-old has now raised roughly $30 million, including from from Canopy Ventures and Allegis Capital”
July 23, 2010 – TMCNet
Solera, FireEye Partner to Protect Networks from Cyber Security Attacks
“Sources at FireEye (News - Alert) a provider of Malware Protection Systems or MPS said that the powerful combination of its solution and Solera Network’s network forensics platform will deliver a single solution for the capture of detailed analytics of cyber security attacks. This includes zero-day and advanced persistent attacks in order to provide rapid and intelligent response“
June 25, 2010 – eSecurity Planet
Universities Respond to Obama’s Request for More Cybersecurity Gurus
“The students from Towson were able to thwart hacker attacks in part by using Solera Networks’ Virtual Appliance – it’s a packet capture system. Solera Director of Marketing Alan Hall called it a “video camera for your network.”
Hoping to tap into the newfound interest in training a new breed of cyber warriors, Solera is donating its Virtual Appliance to any college or university that wants to use it to educate students. It sells for around $10,000.”
June 16, 2010 – Dark Reading
“IDS/IPS maker Sourcefire, for instance, today announced that its IPS packet-event analysis has been integrated with Solera Networks’ forensics software. This lets investigators see every packet before, during, and after an attack. Steve Shillingford, president and CEO of Solera likened this new instant replay feature to a DVR or surveillance for their network.”
May 26, 2010 – USA Today
Solera Networks launches forensics tool donation program
“Schools that take advantage of Solera’s offer will have access to Solera’s DS Virtual Network Forensics Appliance, to train the next generation of network forensics experts.”
May 26, 2010 – Last Watchdog
Solera Networks’ donation will help train next-gen cyberdefenders
“We have to prepare and train future professionals in order to respond swiftly and appropriately as new threats emerge,” [Steve Shillingford] continues. “We are happy to play a role in assisting with this education.”
April 22, 2010 – Channel Web
McAfee AV Update Issue Should Make Businesses Consider Controlled Approach
“Many organizations will first bring updated signature files, AV updates and patches into a safe sandbox for internal testing and validation, said Peter Schlampp, vice president of marketing and product management at Solera Networks.”
April 22, 2010 – eWeek
McAfee AV Update Issue Should Make Businesses Consider Controlled Approach
“Many organizations will first bring updated signature files, AV updates and patches into a safe sandbox for internal testing and validation, said Peter Schlampp, vice president of marketing and product management at Solera Networks.”
April 21, 2010 – PC World Business Center
Recovering from the Flawed McAfee Update
“A spokesperson for Solera Networks pointed out via an e-mailed statement that not all affected systems are so obvious, and highlighted the fact that network threats often originate internally without malicious intent. ‘As with today’s McAfee incident, security issues don’t always come from outside hackers with malicious intent. They may originate from non-malicious activities from a trusted partner, such as McAfee.’”
April 21, 2010 – PC World
McAfee Error: Little Relief in Sight?
“Peter Schlampp, vice president of marketing and product management for computer forensics firm Solera Networks, warned that McAfee’s bad update could haunt networks for days, weeks, or months to come. Without a full network diagnostics (which, of course, Solera provides), any computers that downloaded the update but aren’t used on a daily basis could surprise technicians down the line, he said.”
April 21, 2010 – SC Magazine
McAfee error wreaks havoc on corporate systems
“Anti-virus companies have tight controls to ensure that new signature packs do not cause false positives – but in this case something went wrong, Peter Schlampp, VP of marketing and product management at network monitoring firm Solera Networks told SCMagazineUS.com on Monday.”
April 19, 2010 – Tech News World
Caught in the Act: The Mall Cop Approach to Network Security
“From this list of vendors — though not an endorsement from Gartner or The Nemertes Research Group — Solera Networks recently added what could prove to be a significant contribution to the network forensics category. ‘Solera’s approach is new, but the network forensic technology is 15 years old. The company’s approach is to create vast indices to simultaneously categorize the traffic by markers. Before this approach, it took too much effort to review all the stored data,’ Antanopoulis said.”
April 15, 2010 – IT Knowledge Exchange
See All, Know All INSIDE Your Network: Security Situational Awareness
“Without situational awareness, IT security teams respond to incidents in the same way a fire department responds to fires – a bystander calls up to report the problem. By far, the most typical way for an incident on the network to be discovered is by a third party or employee notifying IT that something strange has happened: for instance intellectual property has been found outside the network, a server is running slowly, or a bad actor is bragging about their success. The 2009 Verizon Business Data Breach Investigations Report finds that over 80% of network breaches are discovered either by third parties or by employees going about their regular work activities – not by our existing automated security devices. Because of this, incidents are discovered late, lack data and detail, and lead to higher costs to organizations, industries and individuals.”
April 12, 2010 – IT Business Edge
“Most security efforts start small but grow as the enterprise recognizes their importance. Network forensics looks to be on the edge of being an important element in overall data security.”
April 6, 2010 – Business Week
Security Startups Aim to Brace Corporate Networks
“Computer security experts at the conference, staged by the Security Innovation Network, said that it’s nearly impossible to stop hackers from gaining access to corporate networks…Solera Networks’ software analyzes large amounts of data about companies’ network traffic so as to help customers determine which information may have been pilfered during a cyberattack.”
March 3, 2010 – Infosecurity
Solera Networks partners with EMC
“The Solera DS SAN solution, powered by EMC, breaks the single-system storage barrier by providing incident responders instant access to the full detail of historical network activity in up to one petabyte of captured network data.”
February 5, 2010 – Dark Reading
Aurora’ Attacks Still Under Way, Investigators Closing In On Malware Creators
“Aurora is a wake-up call,” says Peter Schlampp, vice president of marketing and product management for forensics firm Solera Networks. “Companies are waking up to the fact that they’ve under-invested in the area of security around surveillance and monitoring and forensics to get to the bottom of what happened.”
February 5, 2010 – SC Magazine
Preparing for the unknown unknowns – By Pete Schlampp
While most organizations implement security tools that target prevention, those same organizations fail to understand the full spectrum of security. Prevention is only one part of the equation. Detection and incident response are arguably more important.
February 4, 2010 – GSN Magazine
Are we prepared for cyber war? – By Steve Shillingford
Cyber threats are one of the most serious economic and national security challenges we face as a nation. Every major defense agency, including the Departments of Defense, State, Commerce, Energy and NASA, has been infiltrated.
January 11, 2010 – VentureWire
With Public Dollars Flowing, IT Start-Ups Shake Hands With Washington
For Solera Networks Inc., being discovered by some security evangelists in the federal government was key to growing its business, said Steve Shillingford, its chief executive. The company, which has raised about $12 million from Allegis Capital and Canopy Ventures, makes appliances that monitor and record activity on a network, similar to a video surveillance system that monitors a bank.
November 10, 2009 – Business Week
Solera Networks and ArcSight Join Forces to Provide Network Security and Forensics Solution
Solera Networks has partnered with ArcSight, Inc. (NASDAQ:ARST) to enable integration between their high-speed network forensics appliances and ArcSight’s enterprise threat and risk monitoring solutions. This integration will help determine the true scope of any network or security issue by providing a record of network traffic and replay capabilities to event notifications. Read more
November 3, 2009 – BT Secure Thinking
At first glance, the report paints a familiar theme of organizations needing “more security.” However, the hidden lesson from the survey is that security should be treated as a process, and not a product. “The trick is to reduce your risk of exposure regardless of the products or patches,” Bruce Schneier wrote in 2000. Read more
October 19, 2009 – SearchSecurity.com
Network traffic collection, analysis helps prevent data breaches
Steve Shillingford, CEO of Solera Networks Inc., says his company’s traffic analysis appliances allow administrators to search and navigate through network traffic as easy as searching through files on a computer. Read more
October 19, 2009 – Federal News Radio
Cybersecurity provider says most agencies have already been attacked
A new survey gauging the vulnerability of companies to cyberattack shows that most believe some sort of attack is inevitable. Cybersecurity provider Solera Networks has recently completed a network forensics survey that looks at what a lot of companies have done, and are in the process of doing, to head off cyberattacks. Listen to the interview with Chris Dorobek of Federal News Radio.
October 19, 2009 – Your Defence News
Solera Networks Provides Vital Support for Simulated Cyber War
With recent cyber attacks targeting federal agencies responsible for the protection of the American people, the need for cyber security is higher now than ever before. Cyber warfare training exercises and simulated cyber wars are one of the most effective ways to recruit new security talent and ensure that individuals responsible for securing government and private sector networks are prepared for cyber war when it occurs. Solera Networks, has been selected by White Wolf Security to provide network forensics solutions for these simulated exercises. Read more
October 5, 2009 – DarkReading
Most Companies Unprepared For Quick Response To Attack
Ray Owen, Defense/intelligence cybersecurity executive and advisor, said, “Management needs to understand that mounting an effective response to an attack requires real-time knowledge of what is happening across their networks. The industry needs the tools to help us do that quickly.” Read more
October 1, 2009 – HelpNetSecurity
Most networks unprepared for attack response
While many survey respondents believe incident response is necessary; most do not have the capabilities to determine the full scope of an incident when it occurs. This is daunting, given that 75 percent of the respondents believe that an attack will have a significant impact on their company brand and reputation. Read more
July 22, 2009 – HSTV
Cyber War & The State of US National Cyber Security A look at the recent alleged North Korean cyber attacks against U.S. and South Korean Web servers, and an in-depth discussion of America’s current national cyber security posture. Watch the video
July 14, 2009 – TMC Net
Solera Networks Wins $1.8 Million Contract from U.S. Federal Agency A major U.S. federal agency has awarded a $1.8 million contract to Solera Networks to facilitate a rapid response in the event of a breach or attack. The unnamed agency will use Solera Networks’ network forensics appliances as a key component of its cyber security strategy. Read more
July 01, 2009 – SC Magazine
Large and small enterprises are facing a number of issues when it comes to forensic investigations. “We’ve been seeing a rise in digital forensics results being challenged by outside digital forensics experts hired by the other parties,” says Guidance Software’s Butterworth. “Evidentiary data designed for criminal court will come under tougher and tougher scrutiny.” Read more
May 01, 2009 – InfoSecurity Europe
Infosecurity Europe: firms get access to military grade forensics
It’s not often that firms supplying specialist network forensics technology to US government agencies are allowed to supply their systems software to civilian companies, especially outside of the United States, but Utah-based Solera Networks has achieved this. Read more
May 2009 – USA Today
Tech security firm assumes bad guys will get in
Solera’s innovation: it assumes bad guys will eventually breach perimeter defenses, such as firewalls, antivirus protection and intrusion detection systems, no matter how stalwart. Solera’s technology monitors corporate networks for the break in, much like surveillance cameras pointed at bank tellers’ windows. Read more
April 2009 – The 451 Group
Solera Networks closes $7m B round, bringing total raised to $15.9m Solera has continued to leverage its ability to build upon off-the-shelf hardware and provide extremely fast network traffic capture and storage capabilities. The analysis tools it’s built are eminently useful, not just for compliance with rule sets but for proper network forensics. Download entire article
April 2009 – KSL
Need for cyber security has Lindon company growing LINDON — A Utah company is looking to double in size because of all the attention on cyber security these days. Read more Listen to this story
February 2009 – GSN
Planning for failure is key to effective cyber security When preventative measures inevitably fall victim to unknown threats and our defensive systems fail, detection and response become crucial in ensuring cyber security. Read more Government Security News
January 2009 – ebizQ
The Ultimate CSO Oxymoron Embrace Failure In terms of security failure is not a matter of if but when and overlooking such an inevitability is a failing in its own right Read more
December 2008 – [IN]Secure Magazine
Five Strategies for Proactively Embracing Failure – By Steve Shillingford
As information security professionals, we constantly ask, “Are we doing enough?” To which, the answer is usually a resounding “No.” Read the article Download [IN]Secure Magazine Issue 19
November 6, 2008 – ZDNet
Solera Networks – a different take on management and security
Solera Networks makes it possible to capture all of the network traffic in and out of both physical and virtual systems for later in-depth analysis. Read more
September 19, 2008 – Datamation
DS Series Product Watch
Appliances Capture Network Traffic For Forensics Read more
September 18, 2008 – Interop New York
Interop podcast with Steve Shillingford of Solera Networks.
Kurt Franklin Interviews Steve Shillingford about the need for fundamental Network Forensics Listen to the podcast
September 17, 2008 – Information Week
Network Recorders Are A Window To The Past
Solera Networks announced an OEM program providing data-capture services to others Read more
August 21, 2008 – CRN Australia
Unixpac signs up data security firm
IT security distributor, Unixpac, has signed a partnership deal with Solera Networks, a provider of network traffic capture and search appliances. Read more
May 1, 2008 – TechWeb TV
Solera Networks CEO, Steve Shillingford, Introduces the Solera V2P™ Tap
TechWeb TV’s Fritz Nelson Interviews Steve Shillingford and gets the details on Solera Networks’ innovative technology that helps secure virtual environments. Watch the video
May 1, 2008 – Info World
Startups take on network security, management
Interop’s Start-up City showcased networking technologies and tools from these five newbies Read more
May 1, 2008 – Computer World
INTEROP – Startups take on network security, management
Start-up City vendors showcase products to secure ports, manage services and accelerate file transfers. Read more
April 30, 2008 – Network World
Interop start-ups take on network security, management and acceleration
April 30, 2008 – Channel Web
25 New Products Debuting At Interop Las Vegas 2008
April 29, 2008 – Computer Technology Review
Interop/Software 2008 in Brief
April 29, 2008 – TMC
Solera Intros DeepSee Search Engine
