Security Operations

Despite all the progress that has been made in network security over the last 10 years, enterprise organizations continue to struggle with how best to protect information from attack or misuse. Network Behavior Analysis (NBA) can be used to detect behavior that may be missed by other detection and control technologies, such as firewalls, antivirus and intrusion detection/prevention systems (IDS/IPS). Enterprises can gain valuable network visibilty across physical and virtual networks to address walk-inworms, unauthorized protocols and suspicious connections. Traditional tools fail to defend internal or highly meshed networks, add expensive complexity to internal IT infrastructure, introduce significant performance bottlenecks, and miss most of the threats they are intended to stop.

In addition, most security technologies do not cooperate easily with network management and optimization applications. Security operations that block access to services or drop suspicious packets raise unexpected alarms in IT. Likewise, changes in IT infrastructure often carry significant security implications that do not become apparent until too late. Each event requires significant time to identify what happened, analyze the severity of the incident and determine how best to respond – and time is what is least at hand during a crisis.

Lancope's StealthWatch® System delivers a simpler, more effective means to protect networks against attack or misuse – without signatures, and without slowing down the network. In fact, StealthWatch eliminates up to 80% of the time, cost and complexity associated with internal threat detection and response, and improves overall network health at one-third the cost of typical point solutions. IT and security staff alike rely on StealthWatch to see all of a network in real-time so that they have the information they need to better support each others' daily operations.

StealthWatch provides security oversight across the entire reach of an enterprise network – even across highly switched, highly segmented or fully meshed environments. This ability to provide administrators with true, real-time feedback on the current security status anywhere on the network also scales quickly and easily, making StealthWatch an ideal solution for rapidly growing or rapidly evolving organizations. Automatic threat mitigation stops even unknown threats instantly, or StealthWatch can be set to alert and advise key security personnel when unauthorized activity is detected.

The StealthWatch Advantage for Security Operations:

• Market-leading Network Behavior Analysis (NBA) and Response security technology protects without requiring signatures – even against zero-day or unknown threats
• Monitors high-speed, highly segmented and highly meshed networks without introducing the costs and complexity associated with point solutions
• Easily scales for large networks to quickly pinpoint internal threats, unauthorized activity and unauthorized devices that evade traditional security – including the ability to connect events to individual devices and users
• Utilizes native capture or existing NetFlow and sFlow infrastructure to provide the maximum internal protection possible without undue cost or complexity
• Integrates critical security and network operational information through a single, easy-to-use management console for streamlined communications between security and IT staffs, and faster, more coordinated response to unexpected network events