Telenor Norway Deploys Lancope's StealthWatch for NetFlow Analysis to Gain Network Visibility

By Lancope Inc., PRNE
Sunday, June 20, 2010

StealthWatch Scales to Monitor Large Traffic Volumes and Speeds Incident Resolution across Data Center Networks

ATLANTA, June 21, 2010 - Lancope, Inc. (www.lancope.com), the leader in NetFlow(TM)
collection and analysis and the provider of the StealthWatch(R) System for
flow-based network performance and security monitoring, today announced that
Telenor Norway, the leading telecom provider in Norway, is using StealthWatch
for flow-based security monitoring and incident response across hundreds of
network segments and services.

Telenor Norway provides Internet access and services, mobile services,
telephony and other fixed services. Telenor Norway is the leading telecom
operator in Norway, with a history of more than 150 years. Telenor's service
portfolio includes fixed and mobile telephony, broadband and datacom services
for residential and business customers, as well as a broad range of wholesale
services. StealthWatch monitors traffic for all major data centers related to
Telenor Norway's mobile and ISP services, encompassing thousands of UNIX and
Windows servers connected to approximately 30 large Cisco access switches.

"Our network sustains more than a million packets per second in traffic,"
said Henrik Strom, head of IT security for operations in Telenor Norway. "Any
IDS solutions would be challenged to inspect all that traffic, much less
alert us to potential risks. During our extensive evaluation of security
monitoring products, StealthWatch was found to be the only solution that can
scale to our needs in terms of network traffic and administration."

Telenor Norway's Security Operations Center is currently the primary user
of StealthWatch, with plans to expand usage to network, server and
application operations teams. With StealthWatch in place, Telenor Norway's
security teams receive greater visibility into data center networks, which
they use for incident prevention, response and root cause analysis.

"StealthWatch goes beyond catching worms and denial-of-service attacks to
provide a great deal of information about our network," said Strom. "We can
see which services are being used and exposed to the Internet, how servers
and services communicate, how workstations access production environments and
more. The expanded knowledge StealthWatch affords helps our security team
focus more on prevention than detection."

StealthWatch pioneered flow-based collection and analysis to unify
network performance and security monitoring for end-to-end visibility across
physical and virtual networks. Unlike traditional monitoring technologies
that require extensive deployments, StealthWatch's award-winning flow-based
approach leverages NetFlow to deliver cost-effective network visibility,
improve security and optimize network performance. StealthWatch enables
security and network operations teams to remediate incidents within seconds,
reducing the overall costs of managing and protecting networks.

"StealthWatch enables us to proactively identify issues in our data
centers that would otherwise have required tremendous effort to uncover,"
said Strom. "It indicates which services are being attacked, then we evaluate
whether these services require patching, re-configuration or other actions.
During services outages, StealthWatch helps determine the root cause of the
problem and whether it is a security incident or not. We are very pleased
with its rich functionality compared with other products we reviewed,
including robust security features, IP-to-country mapping, ad hoc graphing of
service traffic, VMware support, extensive documentation and the intuitive
Graphical User Interface."

"Lancope is the leader in NetFlow collection and analysis for
enterprise-class network performance and security management. Innovative
organizations like Telenor Norway recognize Lancope's market leadership of
flow-based solutions for total network visibility," said Mike Potts,
president and CEO of Lancope. "StealthWatch delivers unmatched scalability,
best-in-class problem resolution work flow and the industry's only unified
platform for managing network, security and virtual operations."

About Lancope

Lancope(R), Inc. is the leader in NetFlow collection and analysis and the
provider of the StealthWatch(R) System for flow-based network performance and
security monitoring. Delivering unified visibility across physical and
virtual networks, StealthWatch eliminates network blind spots and reduces
total network and security management costs. Both OPSEC and Common
Criteria-certified, StealthWatch monitors the networks of Global 2000
organizations, academic institutions and government entities worldwide.
Lancope also partners with fellow best-of-breed solution providers through
its Technology Alliance Program, which includes Cisco Systems, Brocade, Blue
Coat, VMware, IBM Tivoli, Check Point, TippingPoint, ArcSight and A10
Networks. Lancope is a privately held, venture-backed company headquartered
in Atlanta, Georgia. For more information, visit www.lancope.com.

(c)2010 Lancope, Inc. All rights reserved. Lancope, StealthWatch, and
other trademarks are registered or unregistered trademarks of Lancope, Inc.
All other trademarks are properties of their respective owners.

Jody Ma Kissling, Lancope, +1-770-225-6513, jma at lancope.com; or Bill Keeler/Lesley Cannata, Schwartz Communications, +1-781-684-0770, lancope at schwartz-pr.com

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