Press Releases

Plixer – Booth S443 – Smart Dust could be the next big cyber threat vector transforming into a massive botnet made up of microscopic Internet-connected devices.

Kennebunk, ME. – February 14, 2017 – The Internet of Things (IoT) is placing an unprecedented number of unsecured devices on the Internet every day that are being leveraged by hackers to steal data and to launch Denial of Service Attacks (DDoS). These devices are coming in the form of thermostats, refrigerators, pet feeders, cameras, healthcare devices, and more. Gartner estimates that by 2020, 50 billion connected “things” will be on the Internet.

KENNEBUNK, ME (September 29, 2016) — Plixer International, a leading security analytics company, announced today that it will be holding a webcast that explains how vendors you trust are stealing from you.

KENNEBUNK, ME (June 21, 2016) — Plixer International, a leading security analytics company, announced today that it will be holding a webcast on How to Detect Data Leaks. With enough persistence, phishing attacks are often successful, and the firewalls are failing to stop the infiltrations. Most companies today are taking the position that devices on their network are already infected. For many organizations, monitoring for unwanted behaviors has become the last defense. This webcast discusses new and innovative methods for uncovering very methodical, low-and-slow data leaks that are helping thieves steal corporate information right under our noses.

KENNEBUNK, ME (April 14, 2016) — Plixer International, a leading security analytics company, announced today that it will be holding a webcast on how to gain visibility into encrypted traffic. The volume of encrypted traffic has tripled in less than a year, and the number of connections to sites like Akamai and Amazon AWS has grown at nearly the same rate. With so many connections on port 443 headed to content delivery networks, technologies like traditional NetFlow have lost much of their ability to provide insight. This webcast discusses emerging technologies in SSL/TLS inspection and DNS monitoring, which are being used to regain visibility into encrypted traffic.

KENNEBUNK, ME (March 16, 2016) — Plixer International, a leading security analytics company, announced today that it will be holding a webcast on the differences between Palo Alto and Cisco ASA firewalls. The goal of the webcast is to compare the features and benefits of both solutions for businesses of all sizes. How well the systems scale, key features, short comings and the associated costs will be explored.

Scrutinizer Recognized for Industry Innovation
KENNEBUNK, ME (February 5, 2016) — Plixer International, Inc. announced today that TMC, a global, integrated media company, has named Scrutinizer as a recipient of a 2016 INTERNET TELEPHONY Product of the Year Award.

Plixer International will be holding a webcast on the differences between Splunk and Elasticsearch (ELK).
Kennebunk, ME (January 13, 2016) — Plixer International, a leading network incident response and security analytics company, announced today that it will be holding a webcast on the differences between Splunk and Elasticsearch (ELK). The goal of the webcast is to compare the features and benefits of both solutions for businesses of all sizes. How well the systems scale and the associated costs will be explored.

“I have done extensive research, spoken with vendors, and spent hours running different searches on both products to ensure a comprehensive understanding of both solutions,” Justin Jett, Technical Marketing Manager of Plixer said. “This webcast will leave listeners with a healthy understanding of the benefits of both solutions and an understanding of what sets them apart.”

(January 06, 2016) — Plixer, the leader in scalable NetFlow and IPFIX analysis for incident response, announced the release of Scrutinizer v16. This update includes more extensive integration with other vendors such as Cisco, Gigamon, Splunk, VMware and Ziften. It also includes several feature enhancements such as Wildcard mask filters which can be applied in the middle of IP addresses and subnets. Multipliers are now applied to NetFlow samples and sFlow packet samples to help better reflect traffic rates. Additional enhancements have been made in the Flow Analytics engine to better identify Sentinel, NetBIOS NS and Sun RPC DDoS reflection attacks. A new index search allows terabytes of records to be searched in a fraction of a second to find a specific IP address.

Kennebunk, ME (November 4, 2015) — Plixer International, a leading network incident response and security analytics company, announced today the release of their Phishing Attack education game called Click Click Phish. Free to play for all individuals and nonprofits, the game leverages an underwater theme with a fish that helps guide the player to making good decisions when evaluating each email. The objective of the game is to evaluate the links in each email before the water runs out of the tank. If the user clicks on anything other than Safe or Unsafe, the game ends and the user must start over. At the end of the game, a score is provided and users can see how they performed in comparison to others. There is also an option to register which allows players to track their performance over time.

Learn why you’re missing vital details from your legacy performance monitoring tools.
Kennebunk, ME (December 03, 2015) — Plixer International, a leading network incident response and security analytics company, announced today that Cofounder Michael Patterson will be presenting an upcoming webcast. The webcast “Outgrown Existing Application Performance Monitoring Tools” is scheduled for Thursday, November 10, 2015 at 2PM EST.