The architecture and composition of enterprise networks has changed dramatically over the last decade, with multi-cloud and hybrid networks becoming commonplace and encryption to support Zero Trust initiatives has become pervasive.
Yet too many organizations still rely on legacy network monitoring tools that have failed to keep pace with the evolutionary forces reshaping their networks. As a result, NetOps, CloudOps, and SecOPs teams are using limited data to identify unwanted activity in their networks.
Limitations of Legacy Network Visibility and Monitoring Tools
You face several challenges when you rely on legacy network visibility and monitoring (NVM) tools to detect and respond to anomalies, compromises, and misconfigurations, including:
- Siloed Visibility: Your legacy NVM tools were not designed to deliver a unified view of today’s multi-cloud and hybrid networks. As a result, your teams struggle with normalizing incomplete data from disparate sources and tools to try to gain comprehensive network visibility.
- Inflexible Tools: Your monitoring requirements have expanded far beyond what your legacy tools were designed to deliver. Due to their architecture and single-purpose design, they’re not capable of being updated to meet the requirements of your evolving network.
- High TCO: Legacy NVM platforms require you to deploy, configure, and manage sensors, agents, or taps anywhere you want visibility. That means you could have to deploy hundreds of physical or virtual appliances and thousands of agents, resulting in prohibitively high costs.
Use Netography Fusion to Detect Activity that Should Never Happen
To overcome the limitations of aging network visibility and monitoring tools, it is essential for you to use technology designed for today’s diverse networking environments and use cases.
Netography Fusion® is a cloud-native, 100% SaaS platform. It closes critical network visibility gaps across multi-cloud and hybrid, IT, IoT, and OT environments caused by siloed tech stacks, isolated teams, and legacy tools.
Fusion’s AI-powered analytics provide a singular view of what your devices, users, applications, and data are doing and what’s happening to them in real-time, accelerating your ability to detect and respond to anomalies and compromises before they disrupt operations.
Overcoming the Challenges of Legacy Technologies for Network Visibility
Fusion delivers the awareness, adaptability, and affordability that legacy NVM tools were never designed to provide:
- Comprehensive Visibility: The Fusion platform eliminates “swivel chair analysis” by delivering a single view of all activity in your multi-cloud or hybrid network instead of separate view to monitor each cloud provider and on-prem environment. Fusion aggregates and analyzes context enriched metadata to monitor all communications:
- VPC and VNet flow from Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud, and Oracle Cloud.
- Flow logs from your on-prem network
- DNS logs from Google Cloud and AWS Route 53
- Context attributes from your tech stack to transform tables of IP address and port numbers into high-fidelity, context-rich insights
- Cross-Team Versatility: The Fusion platform delivers critical detection and response capabilities that your NetOps, CloudOps, and SecOps teams can use, eliminating functional silos and isolated data sets:
- Dynamic, user-configurable dashboards eliminate the need to consult different tools by seamlessly adapting to fit different workflows, use cases, and teams.
- Customizable detection and context creation models enable teams to focus on the activity and systems they are responsible for managing, while also enabling cross-team interaction using a common dataset and detections
- Low TCO: Fusion eliminates the need to deploy appliances, sensors, agents, or taps to see what your users, applications, data, and devices are doing and what’s happening to them, in real-time. It is a 100% SaaS platform and its frictionless architecture enables you to detect, investigate, and respond to unwanted activity anywhere in your modern network. There is nothing else to deploy because it utilizes your existing tech stack to provide the context-enriched metadata it analyzes to provide real-time observability.
Fusion Detection and Response Capabilities
Continually ingest, normalize, enrich, and contextualize all flow data to detect and respond faster and more effectively to anomalies and compromises:
- North-South and East-West network traffic visibility monitors network traffic across on-prem infrastructure and between clouds, cloud to on-prem, and on-prem to remote locations.
- Auto detection, on-boarding, and monitoring of new VNets and VPCs in your cloud environments prevent accidental data loss.
- Integration with existing tech stack enables fast integration with response workflows with third-party products including network management platforms, SIEM, and ticketing systems.
- Automatic context labeling with Context Creation Models (CCMs) that automatically create labels to identify assets or groups of assets, reducing the time to detect anomalies and malicious activity.
- 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 to tailor your license to your requirements.
If you’d like to learn more about our Netography Fusion NDP, 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.