Sandstorm Enterprises

Sandstorm Enterprises

Infobox_Company
company_name = Sandstorm Enterprises, Inc.
company_
company_type = Privately Held
company_slogan = Tools with Sharp Edges
foundation = (1998)
location = Malden, Massachusetts
key_people = James VanBokkelen,
Simson Garfinkel
num_employees =
revenue =
industry = computer software
products = NetIntercept
PhoneSweep
homepage = [http://www.sandstorm.net/ www.sandstorm.net]

Sandstorm Enterprises is a computer security software vendor founded in 1998 by Simson Garfinkel, James van Bokkelen, and Dan Geer. Sandstorm is a located in the greater Boston Area. Sandstorm's major products are PhoneSweep, a commercial multi-line telephone scanner (a war dialer), introduced in 1998, and NetIntercept, a commercial network forensics tool, introduced in 2001. Designed as a second-generation network analysis tool, NetIntercept operates primarily at the level of TCP and UDP data streams and application-layer objects they transport. cite news
last = Stutz
first = Michael
title = Wardialer Goes Corporate
newspaper = Wired
date = 10/7/1998
url = http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/1998/10/15483 ] [ [http://www.infoworld.com/Sandstorm_Enterprises/company_46356.html?view=0&curNodeId=0 InfoWorld: Sandstorm Enterprises : Company Profile ] ]

In 2002 Sandstorm purchased LanWatch, a commercial packet-oriented LAN monitor originally developed by FTP Software. LanWatch is sold a separate product, but much of its functionality is used by NetIntercept to display individual packets.

References

External links

* [http://www.sandstorm.net/ Sandstorm's web site]


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