NetWitness CEO Receives Washington SmartCEO Smart100 Award

NetWitness Corporation, the leading provider of next generation network monitoring and threat analysis solutions, announced today that Amit Yoran has been named to Washington SmartCEO magazine’s 2009 Smart100 list. Honorees include an exclusive group of CEOs that are selected based on their leadership, strategic vision and character. Under Mr. Yoran’s tenure, NetWitness also recently received SmartCEO’s Emerging Growth Award based on the company’s 400 percent year-over-year growth since 2006.

Mr. Yoran has led aggressive growth for innovative security companies and consistently achieved success in strong and difficult economic environments. Mr. Yoran was the co-founder of Riptech, serving as the company’s CEO until the acquisition by Symantec in 2002 after which he served as the Vice President of Worldwide Managed Security Services at the Symantec Corporation. Mr Yoran has served as an investor and director of Cyota, until the company’s acquisition by RSA in 2005 and as investor and director of Guidance Software through the company’s successful IPO in May of 2007. In November 2006, Mr Yoran led an investor funded management buyout of NetWitness, where he continues to serve as the company’s Chairman and CEO.

“The Smart100 represent 100 of greater Washington’s best and brightest CEO’s,” said Group Associate Publisher of SmartCEO, Jaime Park. “The Smart100 embodies CEO’s with incredible business minds that have successfully grown their companies to be the best in Washington. We applaud Mr. Yoran’s proven track record of leadership.”

In addition to his corporate positions Mr. Yoran actively contributes to the community. He serves as a commissioner on the CSIS Commission on Cyber Security for the 44th Presidency and numerous other industry advisory boards. He is also dedicated to philanthropic efforts including hosting the annual NetWitness’ Ride for Kids, a motorcycle ride to raise funds and increase awareness for various nonprofits supporting children’s neurological conditions. Mr. Yoran has also served in public capacities as the founding Director of the US-CERT and National Cyber Security Division and as CEO of In-Q-Tel.

“It is an honor to be considered one of the region’s top CEOs by SmartCEO, particularly given the caliber of leadership within the Washington D.C. business community,” said Amit Yoran. “In all candor, the credit for this recognition belongs to the NetWitness team whose expertise, commitment, and innovation rapidly grew the company into a market leader.”

NetWitness provides commercial and government organizations with the industry’s most comprehensive security monitoring solution. NetWitness NextGen assists organizations in addressing their most challenging problems: insider threats, data leakage, malware activity, asset misuse, compliance, and network e-discovery.

All Smart100 CEOs will be profiled in the 100-page annual supplement which will debut as the 13th issue of SmartCEO this spring. The Smart100 will also be listed on www.smartceo.com.

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.