It often takes time for data breaches to be uncovered and that can present problems when it comes to analysing them and tracing their cause.
Denver-based startup ProtectWise has an answer in the form of its new technology that can record all network activity and store it in the cloud for analysis and playback at a later date.
Called Cloud Network DVR, it provides unlimited retention of full-fidelity network data with the ability to automatically go back into weeks, months and even years of historical data to uncover threats that were previously unknown using the latest intelligence. It also uses threat detection from proprietary research, machine learning and flow-based traffic algorithms as well as multiple commercial intelligence feeds across ProtectWise's customer base.
Cloud Network DVR is delivered as a service allowing for rapid deployment, evaluation and time to value, and eliminates the costs associated with appliance-based solutions.
In addition it allows users to visualize its data via an interface designed by special effects professional Jake Sergeant. It includes a head-up display which provides an at-a-glance view of an organization's network security posture. It includes a Kill Box feature that prioritizes threats, a SitRep tool to provide threat context and reporting as well as easy, intuitive threat search functionality.
"Enterprises today are grappling with Defense in Doubt," says Scott Chasin co-founder and CEO of ProtectWise. "The traditional defense in depth approach has left security professionals with a costly daisy chain of endpoint solutions that provide only a point-in-time view of threats and emit a tidal wave of security alarms with no context or correlation across solutions. By shifting network security to the cloud, we make it possible to leave this outdated, ineffective model of enterprise network security behind".
ProtectWise is built on a scalable, secure and efficient cloud-based infrastructure that collects and analyzes data from a number of small, lightweight software sensors which can be deployed anywhere on the corporate network. The sensors use-patent pending technology to optimize and compress network traffic and replay it to the company's cloud platform to provide a single, source of threat intelligence. More information is available on the ProtectWise website.
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