Why it's worth watching: Business and government agencies are under pressure to boost network security and comply with numerous regulatory requirements to show they're meeting security policies. Thus, there's growing demand for tools to do this.
How the company got its start: Amit Yoran, former National Cyber Security Director at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and also founder of security-services firm Riptech, was familiar with the version of NetWitness developed by CTX for national-intelligence agencies. Yoran last year led the buyout of ManTech's product assets, acquired when that company bought CTX.
Where the company got its name: It "witnesses" network traffic.
Customers: Washington, D.C.-area law-enforcement and intelligence agencies for which NextGen was developed originally. The latest commercial version, developed for broader use, was released in September.
Palo AltoNetworks
Founded: 2005
Headquarters: Alviso, Calif.
Funding: $28 million from Globespan Capital Partners, Greylock Partners and Sequoia Capital
CEO: Dave Stevens
What the company offers: The PA-4000 Series network devices, introduced in June, which use a so-called App-ID application-classification technology to inspect about 450 applications traversing the PA-4000 hardware and apply security rules to these applications.
Why it's worth watching: Enterprises are frustrated with their traditional perimeter firewalls, because firewall ports increasingly are opened up to allow business traffic, particularly over Port 80. The PA-4000 line is offered as a transitional technology that works behind traditional, port-based firewalls to monitor applications and apply security rules to them.
How the company got its start: CTO Nir Zuk worked on some of the earliest firewalls at Check Point Software and later founded OneSecure, which was acquired by NetScreen Technologies, later acquired by Juniper Networks. Over time, Zuk observed that the relationship between ports and applications was diminishing, and he devised a method to look at the content itself through a new type of firewall he had invented.
Where the company got its name: Zuk, who selected it, reportedly lives in Palo Alto, Calif.
Customers: Constellation Energy and Mercy Hospital in Baltimore, and the city of Seattle.
Provilla
Founded: February 2005
Headquarters: Mountain View, Calif.
Funding: $10 million in private funding; investors include Hitachi Systems
CEO: Antonio Espinosa
What the company offers: The LeakProof data-leak prevention product, released in January 2007.
Why it's worth watching: LeakProof isn't the first product to prevent the unauthorized transmission of sensitive content. However, Provilla's founders, who hail from Chinese universities but are developing the product in the United States, think they've come up with a better mousetrap: their DataDNA fingerprinting technology that scans file servers to create a signature for each document. Cosmopolitan in its outlook, Provilla's software supports the Japanese, Chinese, and French languages in addition to English, as the founders look to building an international customer base.
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