Sandstorm Enterprises was an American computer security software vendor founded in 1998 by

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, James van Bokkelen,

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. In January 2010, it was purchased by NIKSUN, Inc. Sandstorm was located in the

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. Sandstorm's major products were PhoneSweep, the first 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 operated primarily at the level of TCP and UDP data streams and application-layer objects they transport.InfoWorld: Sandstorm Enterprises : Company Profile
In 2002 Sandstorm purchased LanWatch, a commercial packet-oriented LAN monitor originally developed by

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. LanWatch was sold a separate product, but much of its functionality was used by NetIntercept to display individual packets. As of 2019, the PhoneSweep product is still sold and supported by NIKSUN. Core parts of the NetIntercept product also still exist, as incorporated into NIKSUN's own NetDetector network forensics product line.

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PhoneSweep at NIKSUN, Inc.
Computer security software companies Defunct software companies of the United States Software companies based in Massachusetts Companies based in Middlesex County, Massachusetts Software companies established in 1998 Software companies disestablished in 2010 1998 establishments in Massachusetts 2010 disestablishments in Massachusetts