On the edge

The Sniffer InfiniStream i120 lets IT managers monitor, measure, manage and resolve high-impact, intermittent network problems. Produced by Network General, the device is an entry-level platform, said officials from the Miami company.The Sniffer is designed for continuous, line rate, stream-to-disk use in network-edge and small network deployments. The platform can capture months of granular network data. The product includes real-time, point-in-time and back-in-time analyses and baseline visualization for capacity planning and trend analysis.Trusted Computer Solutions Inc., a supplier of secure information-sharing products, has a new offering: SecureOffice NetTop2 ­ Thin Client.Based on a Linux operating system with a Common Criteria EAL4 Labeled Security Protection Profile, NetTop2 ­ Thin Client lets users access multiple security levels on a single computer simultaneously and with low infrastructure complexity. NetTop2 ­ Thin Client puts Linux technology on the desktop, letting users access independent networks and, by extension, multiple Microsoft Windows and Unix sessions.The Cogito Knowledge Center is a graph-based database solution for public safety systems.The software lets detectives and intelligence analysts fuse case and event information into a single data set, quickly finding relationships that otherwise may be difficult to discern in a complex, data-rich environment. The Knowledge Center lets analysts narrow an investigation's scope by finding relationships among suspects, activities, locations and events, culling irrelevant data and focusing on a subset of relevant information.Cogito, based in the United Kingdom, makes solutions that enable pattern matching and relationship identification of suspicious activities, even if the patterns sought are incomplete or have errors.