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January 13, 2006
NETWitness -- There Is NO Privacy at Work
By far, the product that interested me the most at this conference is NetWitness, licensed by ManTech International (www.netwitness.com). You place this product on wired network (or listen in a wireless setting) and it traps IP packets. Their software then assembles the packets into sessions and messages and displays whatever was sent.
You can access the data by user name, by type of activity (http, email, instant messaging, VoIP), and in other ways. Https data is protected, they don't break that encryption, but all the other data is available in the clear. Meaning that any email, IM, or voice conversation is completely accessible to anyone to read or hear. And, their user interface is clean and easy to use.
So, I keep harping in class that students as future business professionals must not write email, IM, VoIP anything, or go to any site they would not want printed on the front page of the New York Times tomorrow.
Posted by DavidK at January 13, 2006 12:02 PM | Permalink