Iris ™ Network Analyzer

Iris™ is an advanced data and network traffic analyzer. It allows you to collect, store, organize and report on all data traffic throughout your network. Iris is cutting edge software, giving you never-before-seen power to make running your network easier than ever. In so far as your network is concerned this software will help you achieve omniscience!

The origins of most network issues — whether malicious act or simple non-compliance — generally lie beneath the surface of your networked environment.
Uncover the Inner Workings of Your Entire Network !

Introduction to Iris ™

The biggest headlines in network security seem to feature the dark world of outside hackers, worms and viruses. In reality, however, your network is more likely to be compromised by people inside your organization, either due to malicious acts or simple non-compliance to established security protocols.

In any event, your company depends on you to keep its systems running smoothly and securely at all times. For that reason, you need the ability to examine the inner workings of your network to find the root of the problem and resolve it as quickly as possible. This is the function of Iris™.

Product Features

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Designed for Ease of Use

Despite its highly sophisticated functioning, Iris was designed to be the easiest-to-operate network traffic analyzer on the market. Iris functions in much the same way as a VCR, recording information traveling across your network and playing it back at a later time (or in real time).
The simple-to-navigate, graphical user interface provides point-and-click control over all functions of Iris. In addition, Iris decodes and reconstructs network traffic - such as emails, instant messages, Web pages and more - in its original format.

Provides Forensic Evidence of Security Breaches

Iris will capture every movement an attacker has made and create a complete audit trail. And because Iris makes the job of decoding and analyzing that critical information fast and easy, you save valuable time in catching the perpetrator. Iris can even help you discover a compromised machine that may be sending mysterious messages to an outsider.

Ability to Troubleshoot Performance Issues

By capturing and reporting traffic on your network, Iris allows you to quickly pinpoint the sources of performance problems. Armed with this knowledge, you can take immediate action to resolve issues and more quickly get your users back in business. More importantly, Iris allows you to continuously monitor both incoming and outgoing network traffic, and to proactively identify - and take steps to eliminate - issues before they can result in major downtime for your users.

Provides Assistance in Enforcing Policy

With Iris™, automated filters can be set up to flag and record specific network traffic that contain a particular word or phrase, a MAC or IP address, pornographic or other unacceptable words/material and more. With Iris, you can actually see the web pages viewed by a suspicious employee or follow the exact keystrokes of a hacker, and quickly determine whether or not company security is being compromised or corporate policies abused. In addition, Iris delivers a complete audit trail of network activity, delivering the evidence you need to take appropriate action against those committing malicious or non-compliant acts.

Assists in Program Debugging

Iris is an outstanding tool for helping programmers debug new applications while they are still in the development stage. By allowing an application to run and monitoring its behavior on the network, Iris can help you spot troublesome behavior before the application is rolled out.

Helps You Make Educated Decisions About Your Network

Because Iris gives you an inside view of your network, you will be able to make more informed decisions about the current and future needs of your users. By analyzing how systems are being used, you can better maximize bandwidth across the network, reallocate resources and more effectively plan for growth.

Produces Executive-Level Reports

Iris produces colorful charts and graphs that paint a comprehensive, statistical picture of the integrity of your network. These metrics can be used to create executive-level reports detailing network activity for your organization's upper-level management.

Technical Highlights of Iris

• Packet Reconstruction - Iris will reconstruct all communications on an organization's local network, thus capturing a clear and concise image of the integrity of an organization's network.
  
  
• Packet Manipulation/Forging - Iris allows users to create custom packets or spoof packets and send them across the Internet or their networks to test the integrity of your firewalls or the load bearing capabilities of a system or server.
  
  
• Screen Traffic by Key Criteria - With Iris you can monitor network traffic by setting numerous screening criteria. You can monitor and record network traffic based on a specific MAC address, IP address, keyword, port, protocol layer or hardware layer.
  
  
• Decode Common Protocols - Unlike other network analyzers, Iris has advanced, integrated technology that allows it to reconstruct network traffic in a format that is simple to use and understand.
  
  
• Monitor Web-Based Email and Instant Messenger Services - Iris allows you to monitor non-encrypted web-based email traffic and instant messages. This feature can greatly complement normal company-based email control, audit and monitoring procedures.
  
  
• Create Custom Filters - Iris gives you the ability to develop specialized packet filters that can help pinpoint the existence of specific network traffic (such as CodeRed and Nimda). Different configurations allow you to capture only the traffic matching the applied filter, or to capture all network traffic and flag the sessions containing the filtered words.
  

Product Benefits

Developed by eEye Digital Security, a leading developer of advanced security products, Iris is a highly sophisticated yet simple-to-operate network traffic analyzer that allows you to easily examine the inner workings of your networked environment. Iris makes the detective work of pinpointing the origins of a security breach or performance problem quick and effortless, allowing you to take immediate action to resolve the issue.

Iris decodes and reconstructs network traffic - such as emails, instant messages, Web-browsing sessions and more - in its original format. In other words, you can actually see the web pages viewed by a suspicious employee or follow the trail of a hacker through your network, to quickly determine whether company security has being compromised. Iris even delivers a complete audit trail, giving you the evidence you need to take appropriate action against those committing malicious or non-compliant acts.

Iris functions in much the same way as a VCR, recording communications data traveling across your network and playing it back at a later time (or in real time). In fact, you can actually take traffic captured in one area of your network and play it back in another to verify service levels. This information can actually help you determine whether or not your SLA’s are within agreed-upon parameters or if applications in development are working properly.

With Iris’s ability to monitor network traffic, you’ll be able to proactively recognize - and take steps to eliminate - suspicious or non-compliant behavior before it can become a problem. You can also identify potential performance issues - such as bandwidth abuses, hacker attack damage and more - and take steps to resolve them before they can result in major downtime for your users.

Iris also gives you the ability to set up automated filters to flag and record specific network traffic based on a particular word or phrase, a MAC or IP address, pornographic or other unacceptable words/material and more. Iris will automatically record any traffic containing that information and save it for later analysis, allowing you to "catch" a perpetrator in the act.

Despite its highly sophisticated functioning, Iris was designed to be the easiest-to-operate network traffic analyzer on the market. Iris paints such a clear and precise picture of the integrity of your network, you’ll always be one step ahead of the problems.

Iris is a product of eEye Digital Security, a leading developer of advanced network security products. A global company with offices in the US and throughout Europe, eEye is recognized by the IT community as a research powerhouse. In fact, the company’s team of security experts is singularly responsible for generating a number of advisories regarding potentially catastrophic security issues (such as the Code Red worm) that they have personally discovered. Along with Iris, eEye’s product line includes Retina, a network vulnerability scanner.

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