Many organizations have invested heavily in Network Detection and Response (NDR) to protect critical information assets in their on-premises data centers.
However, these same organizations often struggle with real-time visibility of malicious activity outside the data center and in the cloud. The cost and complexity of deploying appliance-based security controls like NDR across their diverse networking environments are prohibitive.
As a result, CISOs attempt to cobble together technologies to complement their significant NDR investment within their data center and extend consistent detection and response across their network.
Limitations of Deploying NDR Beyond the Data Center
Large enterprises face three common challenges when deploying NDR outside of their data centers:
- High TCO: There are segments and locations NDR can’t be easily deployed due to the high total cost of ownership (TCO) of the appliance-based technology lifecycle: Sizing and acquiring the correct physical or virtual appliances to scale with network growth, deploying, configuring and tuning of each appliance, updating software and deploying patches, and eventually replacing them due to vendor end-of-life policies.
- Pervasive Encryption: Increasingly, traffic outside the data center is encrypted. Most NDR sensors can only inspect unencrypted traffic to detect malicious content and behavior. Decrypting traffic to enable NDR to work as intended introduces additional costs, complexity, and latency.
- Cloud Complexity: NDR deployed in cloud environments requires virtual sensors for traffic mirroring for threat detection, which is difficult and extremely expensive. NDR vendors that have built capabilities to ingest cloud flow logs typically support a subset of cloud providers only, leaving major visibility gaps for multi-cloud customers. As a result, organizations must add other tools from their cloud providers and assume the additional expense of aggregating and normalizing disparate, non-standardized cloud flow logs.
Use Netography Fusion to Extend NDR
To overcome the limitations of NDR outside your data center, look beyond appliance-based technologies.
Netography Fusion® is a cloud-native 100% SaaS platform. It provides real-time detection and response to anomalies and threats across your on-prem and multi-cloud networks from a single console without deploying sensors, agents, or taps. Fusion shows what your devices, users, applications, and data are doing and what’s happening to them in real-time.
Fusion provides critical visibility of malicious activity everywhere NDR isn’t deployed – multicloud or hybrid, in IT, OT, and IoT environments – accelerating your ability to detect threat actors and respond in real-time before they disrupt operations.
Overcoming the Challenges of Detecting Threats Outside the Data Center
Fusion addresses the challenges described above and removes the barriers to fast, effective detection and response that large enterprises face when attempting to deploy NDR outside of their data centers:
- Low TCO: Because Fusion is 100% SaaS you can start ingesting flows in minutes from anywhere in your network. And, because it ingests metadata from your existing technology stack, there are no additional appliances, agents, or taps to deploy, eliminating the need to size appliances or find rack space.
- Encryption Agnostic: Detect malicious or anomalous behavior without needing decryption. Because it analyzes metadata instead of packets, Fusion can identify active threats even in encrypted data, eliminating a favorite technique employed by threat actors to evade detection.
- Multi-Cloud Simplicity: Monitor all five major cloud platforms, without the need to mirror traffic: Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud, and Oracle Cloud. It aggregates and normalizes the different flow data to provide consistent visibility of activity across multi-cloud environments.
Fusion Detection and Response Capabilities
Continuously ingest, enrich, and contextualize all flow data, giving you unmatched awareness of malicious activity that has evaded your other detection technologies outside your data center. You’ll be able to hunt for previously undetected indicators of compromise (IoCs) and limit the scope of damage by responding in real-time, reducing the dwell time of any threat actors:
- North-South and East-West network traffic visibility monitors network traffic between your data center and the rest of the network, and between clouds, cloud to on-prem, and on-prem to remote locations.
- Integration with existing tech stack enables fast integration with response workflows with third-party products, including SIEM, SOAR, EDR, and ticketing systems.
- User-configurable detection & response with Netography Detection Models (NDMs) that pinpoint anomalous activity and enable multiple response workflows from a single NDM.
- Common language of Netography Query Language (NQL) eliminates silos with a uniform detection, analysis, and reporting framework.
- Flexible licensing and data retention enable you to tailor your license to your specific requirements.
Close Your Security Gaps with Fusion
Fusion enables you to close gaps in your security strategy caused by reliance on complex appliance-based approaches. With comprehensive and consolidated traffic monitoring, compromise detection and response, your security, network, and cloud operations teams will be able to:
- Investigate suspicious activity in real-time: Eliminate delays in detecting active threats by searching billions of enriched and normalized flow logs in real-time.
- Eliminate threat actors before damage occurs: Hunt for threat actors before data exfiltration or operational disruptions.
- Automate mitigation to accelerate response: Automate multiple response workflows to the same detection to block active threat actors rapidly.
If you’d like to learn more about Netography Fusion, contact us for more information, a demo, or to get started with a trial
About Netography
Netography is the leader in using context-enriched metadata to detect activity that should never happen in your multi-cloud or hybrid network. Netography Fusion is a 100% SaaS, cloud-native platform that provides real-time detection and response to compromises and anomalies at scale, without the burden of deploying sensors, agents, or taps.
Based in Annapolis, MD, Netography® is backed by some of the world’s leading venture firms, including Bessemer Venture Partners, SYN Ventures, and A16Z.