The BlueHorn Team is thrilled to unveil a major new feature that will significantly boost our customers' security and monitoring capabilities: the Network Traffic Analyzer.
This cutting-edge tool is designed to enhance our ability to identify abnormal behaviours and potential threats, ensuring that both our organisation and our clients remain protected in today's digital environment.
Setup Sensors: Clients need to configure one or more sensors on their network. These sensors listen to the traffic passing through the interfaces they monitor.
Traffic Analysis: The sensors use several in-house projects to capture and analyse the network traffic to detect potential attacks.
Each sensor uses multiple connectors and techniques that capture and analyse high-fidelity network data to generate detailed logs.
We are using custom home-made plugins to make in-depth analysis of network activities, helping to detect attacks through the network packets that move all over the customer networks and to make the detections as accurate as possible.
BlueHorn Console: Our customers can see exactly what's happening on their networks to easily identity the root cause and the impacts of the attack.
NTA is the process of monitoring and analyzing network data in real time to establish patterns, detect anomalies, and stop potential security threats in their tracks. Apart from the performance improvements that can be achieved through network analysis. Here is why it's so important in a security point of view:
Threat Detection and Mitigation: NTA analyses packet data to identify malicious activities, malware propagation, and unauthorised access attempts. By inspecting packet headers and payloads, NTA can detect signatures of known threats, anomalous behaviors indicative of zero-day exploits and even sophisticated threats that may not have known signatures.
Intrusion Detection and Prevention: NTA extends IDS/IPS systems' use cases with deep visibility into network traffic. It identifies lateral movement inside the network, which attackers make while trying to move from one compromised system to another.
Behavioral Analysis: NTA establishes a baseline of normal network behavior to detect deviations that could indicate compromised systems or insider threats. One of the techniques used in identifying patterns that are unusual in network traffic is statistical analysis.
Data Exfiltration Prevention: NTA monitors large data transfers or unusual patterns of communication indicative of data exfiltration. This becomes vital in protecting sensitive information.
Compliance and Forensics: NTA provides detailed logs and reports that are essential for forensic analysis. In the event of a security incident, such logs can be analyzed to comprehend the scope and impact of the breach.
As you can imagine, setting up and developing a stack that makes all this analysis is expensive, time-consuming and can be difficult to maintain. Plus, getting alerts or reports on what's going on is not an easy thing.
So, to make our customers' life easier, with a BlueHorn license, our customers can download and install the official BlueHorn Network Sensor image to easily deploy as much as they want.
Right after a short setup process, our customers can see abnormal network behaviors directly in the BlueHorn console and receive alerts to start the investigation by themselves or let our SOC team handle that for them (if they have the right subscription). As usual, we only show potential and real attacks, to avoid overwhelming our customers with too many false positives.
As you can see below, the asset has C2H and NSM alerts. We are documenting the details of the risk, and we can even show all the details of a log to make the analysis easier.
That makes BlueHorn a unique security solution to protect our customers.
With BlueHorn’s Network Traffic Analyzer, organizations gain real-time visibility, advanced threat detection, and automated alerts, ensuring proactive defense against cyber threats. Our custom-built plugins and seamless integration provide accurate detections with minimal false positives.
Whether customers self-manage investigations or rely on our SOC team, BlueHorn makes network security effortless and effective. Stay secure, stay ahead.
If you have any questions about this tool or BlueHorn, have a closer look at our BlueHorn page, or don't hesitate to contact one of our experts.