Sandstorm Enterprises was an American computer security software vendor founded in 1998 by Simson Garfinkel, James van Bokkelen, Gene Spafford,[1] Dan Geer.
In January 2010, it was purchased by NIKSUN, Inc.[citation needed] Sandstorm was located in the greater Boston area.
[3] Designed as a second-generation network analysis tool, NetIntercept operated primarily at the level of TCP and UDP data streams and application-layer objects they transport.
[2][4] In 2002 Sandstorm purchased LanWatch, a commercial packet-oriented LAN monitor originally developed by FTP Software.
LanWatch was sold a separate product, but much of its functionality was used by NetIntercept to display individual packets.