NetWitness Wins 2009 SmartCEO Emerging Growth Award

NetWitness Corporation, the leading provider of next generation network monitoring and threat analysis solutions, announced today that it has received the Washington SmartCEO Emerging Growth Award. This award recognizes emerging companies less than three years old in the Greater Washington D.C. area that have experienced significant revenue and employee growth.

Key to the company’s growth is NetWitness NextGen, which represents a significant leap in network security monitoring capability and in the automated discovery and management of advanced persistent threats faced by organizations. NetWitness NextGen is designed for public and private enterprises to address concurrent problems of designer malware and zero-day detection, insider threat management, data leakage protection, compliance verification, and network e-discovery. In the largest government agencies, top U.S. banks, and in many large public and private organizations internationally, NextGen has been proven that organizations can reduce the time to problem identification and resolution while providing unrivaled clarity and context in the incident response process.

“Each Emerging Growth winner has demonstrated remarkable growth and traction in a short period of time,” said Craig Burris, Publisher at SmartCEO Magazine. “We are honored to recognize NetWitness as one of the fastest growing emerging companies in Greater Washington – and have full confidence that we will be hearing even bigger and better things from our emerging growth winners in the years to come.”

“NetWitness has experienced approximately 400% year-over-year growth in a very difficult economy and has emerged as a leader to fill a critical gap in the network security software market for organizations needing to deal effectively with complex security threats,” said Nick Lantuh, President, NetWitness. “It is an honor to receive this recognition from Washington SmartCEO, one of the top local business publications, for our corporate growth. NetWitness has established itself as a security thought leader in a short period of time by introducing solutions that not only meet today’s security challenges but those that organizations will face in the future.”

Winners of the Emerging Growth Award will be celebrated alongside the area’s 50 fastest growing companies at SmartCEO’s 4th Annual Future 50 event – a soccer themed black-tie dinner on January 29, 2009 at the Hyatt Regency Bethesda in Bethesda, MD. The keynote speaker for the event is Kevin Payne, President and Chief Executive Officer of DC United. The five emerging growth companies that receive the award are also profiled in the January issue of SmartCEO Magazine. For a complete list of winners, visit www.smartceo.com.

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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 protection, 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.