Key features to consider in NTA solutions include:
Real-time monitoring
Anomaly detection
Threat intelligence integration
Scalability
User-friendly dashboards
Real-time monitoring and anomaly detection are essential for identifying suspicious activities as they happen. Solutions with robust threat intelligence integration enable more effective detection and response to potential threats. Scalability ensures the solution can grow with increased network demands. Effective dashboards provide actionable insights quickly, reducing the time needed for analysis.
Advanced threat detection capabilities, leveraging machine learning, enhance the ability to identify unknown threats. Effective bandwidth usage monitoring aids in optimizing network performance. Seamless integration with existing IT infrastructure, including SIEMs and firewalls, is necessary for a streamlined security posture. Detailed reporting capabilities assist in compliance and audit processes. Ensuring these aspects are met can greatly enhance network security and efficiency.
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Modern Security Operations teams have access to vast amounts of data, but this has not translated into greater effectiveness. The goal of NTA is to not only eliminate blind spots with unprecedented visibility, but to also cut through the noise of alerts with high-fidelity behavioral analytics.
In addition, it should dramatically reduces the time required to take action, from days to seconds, through automated investigations. To achieve these goals, NTA takes advantage of new machine learning and network traffic analytics technology. At its core, NTA which should be powered by an open, programmable, and extensible real-time streaming analytics platform and cloud-based behavioral analytics for full layer-7 visibility.
NTA shave Analytics and Investigation platform for the enterprise.
NTA real-time analytics and machine learning to every network transaction to cut through the noise and deliver concrete answers
Much like SIEM, NTA turned logs into operational insights, NTA turns network data into real-time situational intelligence
NTA technology is often used by Security and IT Ops teams to support key initiatives like Security, App Service Delivery, and IT Modernization
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It depends what your environment is. We have very good experiences with two solutions. When you're using Cisco Networking, their Stealthwatch solution (also part of their EA, a full NBA/ADS* solution) does a very good job and gets more and more integrated in their Networking, Security and Admission Control solutions. When you are looking for a less expensive solution, we have very good experiences with Flowmon, a spin off from the University of Brno (Tsjech Republic) and a very mature NBA/ADS* solution as well. In NL Flowmon is successfully in use by education, healthcare, finance and transportation.
*NBA/ADS: Network Behavior Analysis / Anomaly Detection System.
Network Performance, bandwidth utilisation, data flow speed, Bottlenecks, nodes issues, network medium issues, segmentation efficiency, distributed network requirement as a solution, multicast required as a solution or re design it.
Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) is critical for identifying and addressing potential security threats by monitoring and analyzing network flows. It provides valuable insights into network health and vulnerabilities, allowing IT professionals to act proactively.NTA tools help organizations protect their assets by closely examining the data traversing their networks. These solutions offer deep visibility into network activities and can efficiently detect anomalies and suspicious behavior...
Key features to consider in NTA solutions include:
Real-time monitoring and anomaly detection are essential for identifying suspicious activities as they happen. Solutions with robust threat intelligence integration enable more effective detection and response to potential threats. Scalability ensures the solution can grow with increased network demands. Effective dashboards provide actionable insights quickly, reducing the time needed for analysis.
Advanced threat detection capabilities, leveraging machine learning, enhance the ability to identify unknown threats. Effective bandwidth usage monitoring aids in optimizing network performance. Seamless integration with existing IT infrastructure, including SIEMs and firewalls, is necessary for a streamlined security posture. Detailed reporting capabilities assist in compliance and audit processes. Ensuring these aspects are met can greatly enhance network security and efficiency.
Modern Security Operations teams have access to vast amounts of data, but this has not translated into greater effectiveness. The goal of NTA is to not only eliminate blind spots with unprecedented visibility, but to also cut through the noise of alerts with high-fidelity behavioral analytics.
In addition, it should dramatically reduces the time required to take action, from days to seconds, through automated investigations. To achieve these goals, NTA takes advantage of new machine learning and network traffic analytics technology. At its core, NTA which should be powered by an open, programmable, and extensible real-time streaming analytics platform and cloud-based behavioral analytics for full layer-7 visibility.
It depends what your environment is. We have very good experiences with two solutions. When you're using Cisco Networking, their Stealthwatch solution (also part of their EA, a full NBA/ADS* solution) does a very good job and gets more and more integrated in their Networking, Security and Admission Control solutions. When you are looking for a less expensive solution, we have very good experiences with Flowmon, a spin off from the University of Brno (Tsjech Republic) and a very mature NBA/ADS* solution as well. In NL Flowmon is successfully in use by education, healthcare, finance and transportation.
*NBA/ADS: Network Behavior Analysis / Anomaly Detection System.
Network Performance, bandwidth utilisation, data flow speed, Bottlenecks, nodes issues, network medium issues, segmentation efficiency, distributed network requirement as a solution, multicast required as a solution or re design it.