At Cisco Live IT and communications conference, threat detection and forensic evidence solutions provider, Plixer International, released Scrutinizer v12 with support for distributed flow collection and a central interface for cyber threat detection and investigating suspicious behaviors. With each independent collector capable of up to 200,000 flows per second operating under the umbrella of the distributed architecture, the Scrutinizer appliance can support over four million flows per second.† †
“This is a solution that scales to meet the needs of large enterprises,” says Marc Bilodeau, founder of Plixer. “The new architecture performs forensic analysis across collectors to uncover insider threats engaged in reconnaissance efforts with botnets. We’ve also included a unique baseline capability that allows our customers to baseline absolutely anything that is being collected.†Our customers will find it effective at assisting their efforts to uncover internal contagions that have snuck past other DPI security appliances.”
According to Plixer, the central interface of the solution ensures that policies and configuration updates are pushed down to the potentially dozens of flow collection servers.†The interface boasts the ability to trouble shoot company problems that stretch across the ocean with multiple collection points all from a single web console.†Security Admins can pin point threats from a single location without jumping from one collector to another to run the same search.†
“The nature of this unique distributed architecture results in collectors responding to a reporting query only if they have data matching the criteria,” says Erik Peterson, director of engineering at Plixer. “Even when all collectors have matching data, the local crunching and aggregation of the data before transport results in minimal overhead on the network. In our tests the architecture seems to scale without limits and is ready for our largest customers.”
To schedule a live demo of Scrutinizer v12, call†(207) 324-8805†or email at†sales@plixer.com.
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