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MANDIANT Releases Highlighter™ Software

Jan 29, 2009
MANDIANT's newest free tool helps security analysts and system administrators perform rapid review of logs and other structured text files.

 MANDIANT Corporation, a provider of information security products and services, announced today the release of their newest software offering, MANDIANT Highlighter™. MANDIANT’s Jason Luttgens and Jed Mitten, the creators of Highlighter, introduced the tool during their talk, A Picture Solves A Thousand Crimes: Graphical Log File Analysis, at the 2009 DoD Cyber Crime Conference in St. Louis, Missouri.

 
Highlighter is a free utility designed primarily for network analysts. Highlighter provides a user with three views of the log or text file being analyzed: i) a text view that allows users to highlight interesting keywords and remove lines with irrelevant content; ii) a graphical, full-content view that shows all content and the full structure of the file, rendered as an image that is dynamically editable through the user interface; and iii) a histogram view that displays patterns in the file over time. Usage patterns become visually apparent and provide the examiner with useful metadata that is not available in other text viewers/editors.
 
Kevin Mandia, President and CEO at MANDIANT said, “By providing a graph that visualizes the anomalies in log files, Highlighter reduces the amount of time it takes analysts to review these files. Highlighter is a must-have tool for information security professionals who spend time analyzing logs or other structured text files.”
 
MANDIANT Highlighter is available for download by visiting http://www.mandiant.com/software/highlighter.htm
 

About MANDIANT

MANDIANT is the information security industry’s leading provider of incident response and computer forensics solutions and services. Headquartered in Alexandria, Va., with offices in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Reston, Va., MANDIANT provides products, professional services and education to Fortune 500 companies, financial institutions, government agencies, domestic and foreign police departments and leading U.S. law firms. MANDIANT comprises one of the industry’s largest incident response and forensics forces. The authors of eleven books, MANDIANT security consultants and engineers hold top government security clearances and certifications and advanced degrees from some of the most prestigious computer science universities. To learn more about MANDIANT visit www.mandiant.com, read M-unition, the company blog: http://blog.mandiant.com, or follow on Twitter @MANDIANT.