Decoder
How do you know what really happened on your network if you don’t have a record of it?
Can you prove definitively what communications did or did not occur on your network?
Do you want to have a higher level of assurance regarding actual specific activities on your network?

NetWitness® Decoder is the cornerstone of the NetWitness NextGen™ infrastructure and the key component of an enterprise-wide network data recording solution. Decoder is a real-time, distributed, highly configurable network recording appliance that enables users to collect, filter, and analyze full network traffic in an infinite number of dimensions.

Unlike every other network recording or monitoring products on the market, Decoder fully reassembles and globally normalizes traffic at every layer for full session analysis. The patented Decoder represents a breakthrough in network traffic monitoring that dynamically builds a complete taxonomy of data across all layers and applications, including full packets. Decoder creates a definitive foundation of Total Network Knowledge™ that can be mined in real-time by the NetWitness® Investigator Enterprise and Informer applications. NetWitness Decoder now also includes NetWitness® Live, which provides you with access to multi-source threat intelligence. For more advanced applications, users can leverage NextGen’s available API/SDK to build more organizational-specific applications which utilize Decoder and the NextGen infrastructure. Decoder represents the intersection of network metrics, rich application flow and content information that differentiates NetWitness® products from any other capabilities on the market.

Now Available in a Portable Version!
NetWitness has now introduced NetWitness® NextGen Eagle, a portable and compact version of the NetWitness® Decoder. NextGen Eagle broadens NetWitness’ capabilities from fixed network infrastructure devices to include a compact, mobile monitoring system to support law enforcement, incident responders, auditors, intelligence, and consulting staff for field-duty scenarios. Unlike other portable vendor offerings, NextGen Eagle also supports WiFi monitoring with an exceptional depth of analysis.

Product Features:

NetWitness Administrator Dashboard
  • Supports 10G infrastructures
  • Supports NetWitness® Live
  • Linux-based, highly configurable, full packet capture and reassembly device
  • Modular and fully upgradeable hardware platform across entire product line
  • Indefinitely scales your collection infrastructure upon a distributed, highly manageable, real-time framework
  • FlexParse™ enabled for rapid, user definable parsing and modeling
  • Supports threat intelligence feeds that track BOTs, designer malware, darknets, proxies and fast flux networks, etc.
  • Protocol and application exploitation: HTTP, FTP, TFTP, TELNET, SMTP, POP3, NNTP, DNS, HTTPS, SSL, SOCKS, SSH, Vcard, PGP, SMIME, DHCP, NETBIOS, SMB/CIFS, SNMP, NFS, RIP, MSRPC, Lotus Notes®, TDS(MSSQL), TNS(Oracle®), IRC, Lotus Sametime®, MSN IM, RTP, Gnutella, Yahoo Messenger, AIM, SIP, H.323, Net2Phone®,Yahoo Chat, SCCP (Cisco® Skinny), Bittorrent, GTALK, Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, GMail, TOR, Social Networking, Fast Flux and many others.
  • Expandable SAS storage capacity & supports SAN solutions
  • Available API/SDK for custom application development
  • Supports NetWitness Identity for correlating users to network traffic
  • Supports RSA SecurID and LDAP authentication

Deployment:
Place NetWitness® Decoder(s) wherever you want to capture traffic: egress, core, facility, or segment. They can be operated continuously or tactically and ingest any network capture feed from any source. Decoders are designed to interoperate with Investigator Enterprise and Informer, as well as push data to central NetWitness® Concentrators for aggregated analytical views.

NetWitness® Appliance Models:

  Decoder SKU Processor RAM Interfaces Total Storage Power Form Factor Weight
NWA 100-8D Dual-Core 8GB (2) 100/1000
Copper
2TB Redundant Single 260W 1U, Half-Depth 25 lbs
NWA 1200-16d Quad-Core 16GB (6) 100/1000
Copper
12TB Redundant Redundant
800/850W
2U, Full-Depth 66 lbs
NWA2400-N-32d Hex-Core 32GB (6) 100/1000
Copper
24TB Redundant Redundant
750/800W
2U, Full-Depth 65 lbs
NWP55-8d Quad-Core 8GB (2) 100/1000
Copper
4TB Redundant
ENCRYPTED
Single 400W Briefcase 20 lbs

*All appliances are UL, FCC, CE and VCCI approved & RoHS Compliant

Call 703-889-8950 or contact sales@netwitness.com for more information about NetWitness® Decoder and other NetWitness NextGen™ products.



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