Frictionless Detection Is the Future of Network Security
By Netography
As networks evolve—spanning on-prem, hybrid, and multi-cloud infrastructures—traditional security tools are falling behind. Legacy intrusion detection systems (IDS) and network detection and response (NDR) tools were designed for relatively static environments. Today’s reality is dynamic, distributed, and encrypted. To keep pace, organizations need security that’s just as modern: flexible, cloud-native, and encryption-agnostic.
That’s where frictionless network detection comes in.
The Challenges with Traditional Sensor-Based Network Detection
For decades, security teams have deployed physical or virtual sensors to gain visibility into network traffic by using deep packet inspection (DPI) to gain packet-level visibility of payloads. But in modern environments, this approach is no longer practical—and often becomes a barrier to effective detection. Here’s why:
1. Complex Deployment and Maintenance
Deploying a new data center, spinning up new VPCs or VNets, or adding regional offices requires you to carefully consider your existing IDS or NDR sensor placements and configurations, to ensure coverage. This introduces delays, increases operational overhead, and slows down incident response.
2. Visibility Gaps in Cloud and Encrypted Traffic
Sensor-based tools often miss lateral (east-west) traffic in cloud environments and struggle to extract value from encrypted flows. They rely on ideal placement to network choke points to access payloads—which are increasingly unavailable or out of scope.
3. High Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
Maintaining sensors across a distributed environment requires significant investments in hardware, licensing, bandwidth, traffic mirroring, and staff. Worse, much of this telemetry is already available from cloud providers, leading to duplicated costs.
4. Slow Time-to-Value
Provisioning and tuning sensor-based systems can take weeks or months—far too slow for fast-moving development teams or dynamic networks. By the time sensors are deployed, the infrastructure may already have changed.
5. Incompatibility with Modern DevOps and Cloud Architectures
Security teams using sensor-based detection are forced to play catch-up. New workloads and cloud assets are deployed on-demand, while visibility lags—introducing massive blind spots threat actors can exploit.
The Case for Frictionless Network Detection
Frictionless network detection eliminates the overhead, gaps, and delays introduced by legacy architectures. It’s built for how modern organizations actually operate—cloud-native, scalable, and context-aware.
Netography Fusion® is the only network security platform that delivers frictionless detection. Here’s how it will transform your security operations:
1. Rapid Deployment and Scalability
Frictionless detection requires no hardware sensors or agents. ingests cloud flow logs (AWS, Azure, GCP, IBM, and Oracle) and on-prem flow data (NetFlow, IPFIX, sFlow) directly, so you can start monitoring in minutes—not weeks. As your environment scales, the platform scales with it.
2. Holistic Visibility Across Environments
Instead of relying on separate tools to provide limited visibility of parts of your network, frictionless detection provides a unified view of all IP traffic across on-prem, hybrid, and multi-cloud networks. It detects north-south and east-west (lateral) movement—including malicious activity that would evade perimeter defenses.
3. Encrypted Traffic Insight Without Payload Inspection
Flow metadata can detect malicious and anomalous activity indicating active attacks like ransomware—even when traffic is encrypted. By analyzing behavioral patterns, volume shifts, and contextual signals, frictionless detection can identify threats without needing to decrypt traffic or inspect packets.
4. Reduced Operational Overhead
No sensors. No agents. No choke points. This architecture removes friction for security cloud, and network operations teams. You get continuous monitoring without the headaches of provisioning, updating, or maintaining a fleet of sensors.
5. Lower TCO
Since you’re using telemetry already generated by cloud providers and existing infrastructure, there’s no need to pay twice for visibility. Detection becomes more cost-effective, while still delivering powerful security insights.
Network Security Without the Baggage
Frictionless detection represents a new model for securing dynamic environments. Instead of trying to retrofit outdated architectures to modern networks, the Netography Fusion meets you where your infrastructure already is—with speed, simplicity, and holistic visibility.
If your current tools are holding you back, it’s time to let go of sensors and embrace the future of detection—frictionless, cloud-native, and built to scale.
The Future is Netography Fusion
Netography Fusion detects anomalous and malicious activity anywhere in your multi-cloud or hybrid network in real-time. Fusion is a 100% SaaS, cloud-native platform designed to deliver high-confidence alerts that your security, network, and cloud operations teams can act on before operational disruption occurs.
Fusion’s frictionless architecture, use of context-enriched metadata, AI-powered detection, and integrated response workflows eliminate the challenges caused by other approaches.
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