Lancope, Inc., the provider of the StealthWatch System, announced that Gibraltar Industries is using StealthWatch, which leverages Cisco IOS NetFlow and sFlow, to deliver fast and accurate insight into network activity. Lancope's StealthWatch enterprise products save organizations time and money by reducing the resources required to optimize security and network operations.

    Gibraltar Industries is a leading manufacturer, processor and distributor of products for the building, industrial and vehicular markets. With more than 1,500 network users spread across 84 locations, Gibraltar's IT staff needed a better solution for identifying bandwidth utilization issues, worm activity, scans from the outside and other network trouble spots.

    After a competitive bake-off, Gibraltar selected the StealthWatch System, which includes the StealthWatch Xe for NetFlow and sFlow collector appliances and the StealthWatch IDentity-1000 appliance for tying users to network events - all centrally managed through the StealthWatch Management Console. Through StealthWatch's innovative Point-of-View feature, each member of the IT staff has a customizable dashboard view of network activity to meet his/her specific operational and reporting needs.

    New developments in remote access and site-to-site virtual private networks (VPNs), wireless and mobility, Voice Over Internet Protocol, multiprotocol label switching (MPLS), data center networking, and uses of the public Internet have a significant impact on how organizations deploy their network and IT infrastructures. Enterprise networks are experiencing significant architectural changes as they prepare for and capitalize on these new capabilities in today's challenging business environment. The result is a challenging environment for enterprise network planners, operations and security staff.

    . After implementing StealthWatch, the staff determined that more than 30 percent of the company's Internet traffic was streaming radio. The staff notified each division that streaming radio was against company policy and was able to pinpoint specific offenders. Now Gibraltar's typical Internet circuit utilization hovers between 40 to 60 percent. Prior to StealthWatch, Gibraltar's IT staff had to manually search through logs and packet captures to find the source of network problems. For example, the company had been utilizing 80 to 100 percent of its Internet circuits

    "Networking and security increasingly overlap in today's IT environments, and businesses like Gibraltar Industries need solutions that optimize both and scale for continued growth. StealthWatch continues to deliver proven enterprise value in helping the Gibraltar team meet IT demand, increase efficiency, simplify management - and accomplish it all quickly and cost-effectively," commented Harland LaVigne, president and CEO of Lancope.