Northrop Grumman Adopts Lookingglass' ScoutVision For CyberSpace Solution Center

Baltimore, MD – (November 17, 2009) As the Federal government’s attention shifts towards cyber security, Baltimore-based Lookingglass Cyber Solutions- the leading provider of global cyber situational awareness products - announced today that they signed a contract to deploy ScoutVision™ in Northrop Grumman Corporation’s CyberSpace Solutions Center, located in Millersville, Md.
 
Deployment of ScoutVision™ - an Internet intelligence and real-time data visualization platform - will demonstrate to customers their ability to monitor specific networks of interest and Internet threats, including Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) ‘hijacking’ exploits.  BGP is the routing protocol that makes the Internet work.  It is vulnerable to a man-in-the middle attack.  This stealthy attack enables complete traffic interception, exploitation, and modification.
 
Lookingglass plans to work closely with Northrop Grumman and expects ScoutVision™ will integrate data sets that will be interesting to their existing portfolio of customers focused on analysis and critical infrastructure protection.  ScoutVision’s™ network topology, cyber dashboard, and network flow visualization is compelling and its’ ability to correlate external routes and threats with internal network activity is a gap it plans to fill for cyber situational awareness.
 
Given Northrop Grumman’s breadth and depth of experience in the cyber security market, Lookingglass hopes to be an integral partner offering a real-time view of Internet activity and its impact to a customer’s enterprise network. BGP hijacking, like many other exploits, is a worldwide problem - therefore requires a worldwide perspective and worldwide cyber situational awareness. Only with this perspective will organizations have the ability to monitor for, and take action, when seeing surreptitious activity.
 
“We are excited to establish this partnership with such a respected company,” said Derek Gabbard, Lookingglass’ chief executive officer. “This opportunity will enable Lookingglass to expose ScoutVision™ to key federal government prospects and work to enhance and evolve the product through direct customer interaction.”
 
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