Case Study: Sandstorm Enterprises secures enterprise networks and accelerates network forensics with MySQL

Sandstorm Secures Enterprise Networks Using Embedded MySQL

Sandstorm Enterprises builds network monitoring and security appliances for customers such as Boston Children’s Hospital, the Medford Police Department and organizations in the energy and aerospace sectors. Faced with rising performance problems and sophisticated breaches, customers needed a way to analyze packet contents and find needles in terabytes of raw traffic—something traditional monitoring and IDS tools could not do and manual inspection made impractical.

Sandstorm’s NetIntercept appliance embeds MySQL to store and index mined network data, enabling interactive searches, scheduled reports, content scans and fast analysis of millions of TCP connections. The MySQL-backed solution is high-performance, zero-administration and cost-effective, delivering out-of-the-box productivity, continuous reliability and industry recognition (Best Value Award), and has become an indispensable tool for investigators and IT managers.

Sandstorm Enterprises

James Van Bokkelen

President