NOMINATION HIGHLIGHTS

Detecting, investigating, and responding to threats is vital when time is of the essence. SOC teams protecting physical infrastructure face multiple challenges: securing data and potential vulnerabilities without network disruption, while complying with tough regulatory compliance requirements (such as government mandates) and implementing best practices (such as Zero Trust, ISO 27-001, etc.). These requirements and best practices implicitly or explicitly require packet capture, the one source of network history truth.

Endace helps secure and defend critical infrastructure for its customers, including many national security agencies and organizations, defense forces and militaries, national departments, federal agencies and infrastructure, global financial institutions, and many other entities responsible for securing critical information and services to keep the world safe. These organizations need total visibility into what’s happening across their networks to defend critical infrastructure and services against cyber attacks, threats and outages.

EndaceProbes enable accurate detection and accelerate investigation and response times by delivering continuous packet capture to the tools and teams tasked with keeping the public safe. Quickly locating crucial packet evidence lets teams working in critical infrastructure environments investigate quickly and conclusively, giving them the definitive evidence they need to respond to issues without guesswork. Packet data and forensic traffic analysis can be integrated directly into security and monitoring tools from leading vendors to put forensic evidence at security analysts’ fingertips.

EndaceProbes are certified under Common Criteria NDcPP v2.2e, NIST FIPS 140-3, and are the only packet capture solution on DISA’s Department of Defense Information Network Approved Products List (DoDIN APL). These certifications mean that EndaceProbes meet stringent security standards and can be adopted and deployed in highly secure, highly regulated networks without long, laborious approval processes.

In a SANS white paper published in February 2026, titled “Full Packet Capture as Strategic and Regulatory Imperative,” author Matt Bromiley states that “…integration of FPC [full packet capture] into monitoring tools delivers definitive visibility into network activity, enabling organizations to comply with regulatory obligations within tight reporting deadlines without guesswork or having to report “worst-case” scenarios because of lack of evidence … As regulatory frameworks continue to evolve and threats increase in sophistication, organizations that invest in FPC capabilities will find themselves well-positioned to adapt quickly to new requirements while maintaining superior security postures. The question is not whether to implement FPC, but how quickly organizations can deploy these capabilities to gain a competitive advantage for both adversary defense and compliance.”