HERNDON, VA – May 20, 2009 – NetWitness Corporation, the leading provider of next generation network monitoring and threat analysis solutions, today announced that Red Herring magazine named the company a winner of the “Red Herring 100 Award” which is given to the top 100 private technology companies based in North America. NetWitness set new benchmarks for innovation in the information security field and achieved outstanding company growth in all key corporate performance measures, including more than 350% revenue growth, year over year.
“We are proud to include NetWitness Corporation in our Red Herring 100 North America winners list for 2009,” said Alex Vieux, CEO of Red Herring. “This honor is the culmination of a rigorous and highly selective process. As a Red Herring 100 winner in 2009, NetWitness joins an elite group of current and prior Red Herring 100 winners who have proven themselves to be innovators with enormous growth potential.”
Red Herring’s annual lists of top private companies are an important part of the company’s tradition of identifying new and innovative technology companies and entrepreneurs. The editorial staff diligently surveys entrepreneurship around the globe and rigorously evaluates thousands of private companies through careful analysis of financial performance and subjective criteria, including quality of management, execution of strategy, and dedication to research and development. Technology industry executives, investors, and observers regard the Red Herring 100 lists as invaluable instruments to discover and advocate the promising startups that will lead the next wave of disruption and innovation. Past award winners include Google, Yahoo!, Skype, Netscape, Salesforce.com, and YouTube.
“It is an honor for NetWitness to be recognized by Red Herring for our performance and ability to help our customers address today’s complex security challenges,” said NetWitness CEO Amit Yoran. “The success NetWitness has experienced due to an expanding customer base and unique products is humbling. We look forward to introducing new innovative capabilities in 2009 and anticipate continued aggressive growth throughout the year.
NetWitness’ solutions focus on the discovery and rapid mitigation of advanced persistent threats from state-sponsored and organized criminal groups. In the past year, NetWitness added a number of very large enterprise deployments within US Government, including agencies in the Civilian, Intelligence, and Department of Defense (DoD) communities. The company also added two of the largest U.S. banks. New NetWitness customers include many of the top industry leaders within the Transportation, Information Technologies, Financial Services, Healthcare, and Higher Education sectors. NetWitness continues to post exceptionally strong sales in the International sector as well.
More information on the Red Herring 100 Awards can be found at: http://herringevents.com/northamerica09/redherring100.html#winner.
About Red Herring Red Herring is a global media company which unites the world’s best high technology innovators, venture investors and business decision makers in a variety of forums: a leading innovation magazine, an online daily technology news service, technology newsletters and major events for technology leaders around the globe. Red Herring provides an insider’s access to the global innovation economy, featuring unparalleled insights on the emerging technologies driving the economy. More information about Red Herring is available on the Internet at www.redherring.com
About NetWitness NetWitness® Corporation provides patented next generation network security monitoring software products. Users of NetWitness NextGen™ can concurrently solve a wide variety of information security problems including: advanced persistent threat management, data leakage detection, malware activity detection, insider threat detection, GRC controls verification and network-based e-discovery. Originally developed for the US Intelligence Community, NetWitness has evolved to provide enterprises with breakthrough methods of network content analysis and risk verification and determination. Customers include Defense, National Law Enforcement and Intelligence Agencies, Top 10 U.S. Banks, Critical Infrastructure, and Fortune 1000 organizations.
To download the freeware version of NetWitness Investigator, visit http://download.netwitness.com. For more information about securing your entire organization with NetWitness NextGen, contact: sales@netwitness.com . Twitter handle: NetWitness .