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The Consequences of Poor Network Visibility

In today’s digitally connected world, the importance of network security cannot be overstated. Cyberthreats and attacks are constant, and their sophistication continues to evolve. One vital component in the battle against these threats is network visibility.

Without a clear network visibility solution and a multifaceted strategy to defend against bad actors, organizations could be facing:​​

  • Increased risk of security breaches
  • Exposure to ransomware and other botnets
  • Poor network performance due to DDoS attacks
  • Unauthorized access and loss of intellectual property
  • Man-in-the-Middle attacks
NetQuest supports scalable network visibility solutions.
SecOps teams use NetQuest to optimize network visibility solutions.

Vulnerable Networks Lead to More Threats

Every device connected to the network represents a potential vulnerability, making a comprehensive network visibility solution crucial for a robust cybersecurity strategy.

Hackers can exploit seemingly innocuous devices like network printers, network-attached storage, and even smart systems such as connected lighting to infiltrate your entire network.

SecOps teams must constantly monitor their attack surface to identify and block potential threats as quickly as possible.

What is the Answer?

Network Visibility Through Rich Metadata

To have complete transparency of what goes on in your network, you need to maximize visibility. Cyber security engineers can optimize a strong network visibility solution through generating unsampled network metadata.

Flow-based metadata visibility solutions do not have the constraints that traditional packet-based solutions have and now they can be scaled to fit your team’s needs. Basic 5-tuple NetFlow records can provide data analysts key information about who is communicating and their geo-locations.

Enriched metadata can provide deeper levels of actionable intelligence including layer 7 applications and other attributes for protocols such as DNS, SIP and HTTP extracted via DPI.

NetQuest optimizes Big Data analysis via scalable network visibility solutions.

Encrypted Traffic Analysis via JA4 Fingerprinting

JA3 and JA4+ fingerprinting are techniques threat hunting teams use to optimize network visibility.

As cybercriminals become increasingly skilled at exploiting encrypted data, fingerprinting techniques play a crucial role in detecting and preventing such attacks.

The cost of decryption is prohibitive. Hence, to analyze traffic encrypted via TLS, QUIC or SSH, security engineers have adopted fingerprinting mechanisms that extract information from the initial handshake process.

JA3, JA4+, HASSH and RDFP are popular threat hunting fingerprints. Threat detection tools can match these fingerprints tied to malicious activities or malware applications published to public libraries.

Scale Network Visibility via Application-Based Packet Filtering

More than 50% of network packets are not of interest to typical security teams. The ability to intelligently filter and deliver only relevant, observable traffic to upstream tools is vital to creating a cost-effective network visibility solution that will scale to terabits of traffic. 

Along with increased encryption has come the challenge of sifting through traffic unrelated or unwanted to mission critical SecOps tasks. Commercial streaming video traffic slows down and utilizes more resources than necessary.

Streamlining packet analysis and optimizing storage resources for historical data leads to improved mitigation techniques in the future.

NetQuest supports application-based filtering to reduce noise ad optimize network visibility solutions.

Deep Network Visibility at International Scale

NetQuest's OMX3200 allows threat hunting teams to optimize global network visibility.

Modern WAN transport networks deliver global interconnect and seamless international communication. These optical fiber networks enable data sharing and instant connectivity between devices, regardless of their physical location.

Government defense and telco security missions require unique WAN network visibility solutions. Threat hunting at this scale must support analysis of IP packets carried over submarine networks via complex protocol stacks and transport protocols such as DWDM, OTN and SONET/SDH.

Alternative WAN monitoring solutions typically require use of standard telecommunications equipment and protocol analyzers not intended for network monitoring applications.

Scale Network Visibility with NetQuest Corporation

Don’t let poor network visibility hold your business back. Explore how our advanced cybersecurity and network visibility solutions can provide the insight and control you need to secure your network and boost your organization’s efficiency.