Ixia, an application performance and security resilience solutions provider, has a new frontline of defense for enterprise networks. Ixia’s ThreatARMOR is part of the company’s Visibility Architecture, enabling enterprises to reduce their global 'network attack surface'.
A network attack surface is the sum of every access avenue an individual can use to gain access to an enterprise network. Enterprise security tools should ideally inspect all traffic, including that which should not be on the network in the first place, such as traffic from known malicious IPs, hijacked IPs, and unassigned or unused IP space/addresses, Ixia said.
ThreatARMOR can:
· Block traffic from known bad IP addresses at line-rate speeds onsite without sending traffic outside the private network for inspection
· Add malicious IP addresses for blocking, either manually or automatically from SIEM tools
· Identify and stop infected internal devices from communicating to known botnet servers
· Block traffic by geography from entire countries that likely have no valid reason to access the network
· Block unused IP space / unassigned IP addresses and hijacked domains from the network
“What’s killing security is not technology, it’s operations,” stated Jon Oltsik, ESG Senior Principal Analyst and the founder of the firm’s cybersecurity service. “Companies are looking for ways to reduce their overall operations requirements and need easy to use, high performance solutions, like ThreatARMOR, to help them do that.”
“As many recent breaches demonstrate, indications of intrusions and data exfiltration attempts are usually flagged through internal security alerts long before the intrusion is actually discovered. But determining the critical alerts is like trying to find a needle in a haystack, given the sheer number of security alerts that must be analysed daily,” said Dennis Cox, Chief Product Officer at Ixia. “ThreatARMOR delivers a new level of visibility and security by blocking unwanted traffic before many of these unnecessary security events are ever generated. And its protection is always up to date thanks to our Application and Threat Intelligence (ATI) programme. "
The ATI programme develops threat intelligence for ThreatARMOR and provides a detailed 'rap sheet' that documents the malicious activity of each included IP address. Rap sheets provide proof of malicious activity for all blocked sites, supported with on-screen evidence of the activity such as malware distribution or phishing, including date of the most recent confirmation and screen shots.
With this clear reporting on blocking actions, customers can easily support IT compliance audits. Threat intelligence and rap sheet updates are pushed continuously to all ThreatARMOR devices for ongoing and consistent threat protection.
“ThreatARMOR allows organisations of all sizes to elegantly deflect potential threats on a global scale and basis,” says Christian Pfalz, Sales Manager at Dimension Data. “By using ongoing threat intelligence to deflect unwanted traffic before it accesses the network, this new element stands to reduce the strain and improve ROI on businesses’ existing security resources quite dramatically.”
Interested?
ThreatARMOR is currently available via authorised Ixia channel partners at a starting US list price of US$19,995 plus US$2,995 for a one-year ATI subscription.
A network attack surface is the sum of every access avenue an individual can use to gain access to an enterprise network. Enterprise security tools should ideally inspect all traffic, including that which should not be on the network in the first place, such as traffic from known malicious IPs, hijacked IPs, and unassigned or unused IP space/addresses, Ixia said.
ThreatARMOR can:
· Block traffic from known bad IP addresses at line-rate speeds onsite without sending traffic outside the private network for inspection
· Add malicious IP addresses for blocking, either manually or automatically from SIEM tools
· Identify and stop infected internal devices from communicating to known botnet servers
· Block traffic by geography from entire countries that likely have no valid reason to access the network
· Block unused IP space / unassigned IP addresses and hijacked domains from the network
“What’s killing security is not technology, it’s operations,” stated Jon Oltsik, ESG Senior Principal Analyst and the founder of the firm’s cybersecurity service. “Companies are looking for ways to reduce their overall operations requirements and need easy to use, high performance solutions, like ThreatARMOR, to help them do that.”
“As many recent breaches demonstrate, indications of intrusions and data exfiltration attempts are usually flagged through internal security alerts long before the intrusion is actually discovered. But determining the critical alerts is like trying to find a needle in a haystack, given the sheer number of security alerts that must be analysed daily,” said Dennis Cox, Chief Product Officer at Ixia. “ThreatARMOR delivers a new level of visibility and security by blocking unwanted traffic before many of these unnecessary security events are ever generated. And its protection is always up to date thanks to our Application and Threat Intelligence (ATI) programme. "
The ATI programme develops threat intelligence for ThreatARMOR and provides a detailed 'rap sheet' that documents the malicious activity of each included IP address. Rap sheets provide proof of malicious activity for all blocked sites, supported with on-screen evidence of the activity such as malware distribution or phishing, including date of the most recent confirmation and screen shots.
With this clear reporting on blocking actions, customers can easily support IT compliance audits. Threat intelligence and rap sheet updates are pushed continuously to all ThreatARMOR devices for ongoing and consistent threat protection.
“ThreatARMOR allows organisations of all sizes to elegantly deflect potential threats on a global scale and basis,” says Christian Pfalz, Sales Manager at Dimension Data. “By using ongoing threat intelligence to deflect unwanted traffic before it accesses the network, this new element stands to reduce the strain and improve ROI on businesses’ existing security resources quite dramatically.”
Interested?
ThreatARMOR is currently available via authorised Ixia channel partners at a starting US list price of US$19,995 plus US$2,995 for a one-year ATI subscription.
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