We live in an era where the defensive capabilities of traditional security tools have been eclipsed by the capabilities of modern attackers. Major breaches are consistently occurring in the networks of even the most technically savvy enterprises, including the national defense and the most righteous security vendors. Over the years, network security teams have demanded “set it and forget it” tools to block potential threats based on signatures and behaviors. In this environment however, those tools are providing a false sense of security, and as we have seen all too often, sole reliance on more and better prevention-based tool sets is not preventing high-profile organizations from being attacked.
What today’s enterprises need is an active, responsive, and integrated approach to network security. We call it ‘Network Security Analytics”. The way Web Analytics tells marketers what to look for in order to sell more, Network Security Analytics tells security administrators what is suspicious and potentially threatening to the integrity of their networks.
To combat today’s sophisticated attacks, administrators and incident responders require the best equipment and the deepest visibility into the activities, applications, and personas on their network. They need the ability to react quickly to events in real time within the full context of the event, because the stakes, whether reputation, financial loss, or market cap exposure are too high. Every second matters. The difference between “set it and forget it” and the active response approach is data. Network Security Analytics can make sense of the data and provide actionable evidence on how to defend your network.
Importantly, Network Security Analytics is more than just data and analysis. It’s also the ability for all your security tools to work together in concert, to share data, and to enable the team to defend the network quickly and decisively. Despite the allure of purchasing every security tool from the same vendor, in a world where almost 8,000 malware signatures are created EVERY DAY, enterprises must rely on the innovative technologies that address today’s ever-evolving threat landscape. When assessing security products and services, security teams should think in terms of best-of-breed integration to deliver end-to-end threat
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