Can you introduce us to NetWitness and the clients and markets served ?

NetWitness started as a project from the Department of Homeland Security in 1997 and we became a company in the early 2000s . It was a really important step in our development when we were approached by RSA for the breach in 2011 . From that moment on , RSA understood the value of the product , the platform and the approach . So , we started on our journey into the market .

Initially , we tackle the visibility from the network perspective which is the main goal for the platform ; to offer the visibility that just a handful of technologies are available to support . From that moment on , we develop a number of additional elements . These include behavioural analytics and endpoint detection , so we added all the visibilities to the platform in order to tackle in full the different domains of every incident response investigation . From the market perspective , while the deployment of NetWitness usually targets medium to large companies , with the new application of cloud visibility and cloud incident response capabilities , we are also offering these to SMEs . Since last year , basically every type of company can hire our services and our technology so that we can support them in their daily monitoring of activities .

We span across several regions in pretty much every part of the world – from Australia to Scandinavia , to Canada and South America . This is also true not just for the technologies , but also for the professional services .

What are the key challenges your customers [ in Europe ] are experiencing today ?

The challenges are the standard challenges of cybersecurity which include the proliferation of actors and the sophisticated types of attacks that these actors are able to carry out against companies . The other challenge is to organise the proper response and this is where we come in . When you are facing a sophisticated actor , you need to bring a lot of different

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