Clarified Networks
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Clarified Networks is a company that is headquartered in Oulu
Oulu
Oulu is a city and municipality of inhabitants in the region of Northern Ostrobothnia, in Finland. It is the most populous city in Northern Finland and the sixth most populous city in the country. It is one of the northernmost larger cities in the world....

, Finland
Finland
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. The company was acquired by Codenomicon
Codenomicon
Codenomicon is a private company founded in late 2001, and develops robustness testing tools for manufacturers, service providers, government/defense and enterprise customers. The company has raised Venture money mid 2000's and and has been profitable since 2008, with more than 40% growth in...

 in 2011, but continues to operate as a separate company under the Codenomicon Group.

The company is most famous for producing visualizations of security incidents, for example the patching of DNS cache poisoning attacks and Botnet
Botnet
A botnet is a collection of compromised computers connected to the Internet. Termed "bots," they are generally used for malicious purposes. When a computer becomes compromised, it becomes a part of a botnet...

 traffic.

Since 2006 Clarified Networks has in particular concentrated in developing the collaborative focus in their products and currently refers to itself as a provider of Collaborative Network Analysis tools. Practical applications for Clarified Networks' tools are for example Traffic Auditing, troubleshooting and malware analysis.

Products

Clarified Networks provides a wide set of different situation awareness tools, including:

Virtual Situation Room (VSRoom) provides unified, real-time views to the information provided by your monitoring systems. With VSRoom you will be able to collect, visualize and share monitoring data collected from your critical infrastructure. It provides beautiful situation overviews of complex data for decision makers and first line operation centers.

AbuseHelper
Abusehelper
AbuseHelper is an open-source project initiated by CERT.FI and CERT.EE with ClarifiedNetworks to automatically process incidents notifications....

 is an open framework for collecting and sharing intelligence on suspected malicious activity. Clarified Networks is the lead developer and community contributor of AbuseHelper.

Network Analyzer is the tool of choice for collaborative analysis and visualization of complex networks. The analyzer helps you in collaborative troubleshooting, traffic audits and network documentation based on real traffic.

History

The research and development for Clarified Networks' tools began in 2002 and continued for four years in the Oulu University Secure Programming Group (OUSPG) before Clarified Networks spun off from the research group in 2006.

The company entered the Venture Cup
Venture Cup
Venture Cup is a type of a Scandinavian business plan competition in which entrepreneurs with unique business ideas compete for investment capital....

 competition that year, and was one of the finalists.

In 2007, the founders of Clarified Networks also were awarded for their VMware Applicance called HowNetWorks.

In 2011, Company was acquired by Codenomicon
Codenomicon
Codenomicon is a private company founded in late 2001, and develops robustness testing tools for manufacturers, service providers, government/defense and enterprise customers. The company has raised Venture money mid 2000's and and has been profitable since 2008, with more than 40% growth in...

.

External links

* https://www.clarifiednetworks.com/
* http://www.youtube.com/user/clarifiednetworks
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