NETSCOUT SYSTEMS, INC. today announced integration between the
Company's next-generation, real-time information platform, ISNG, and network threat analysis solution, Arbor Networks Spectrum.
This
solution brings NETSCOUT's patented smart data technology to advanced
threat detection, delivering pervasive visibility for the entire
enterprise. Using a common, shared data source will also promote smooth
collaboration between the network and security teams. The result is
faster time to detection and investigation of advanced threats. For the
first time, network and security teams will have access to both
real-time and historical network traffic from a single dashboard, giving
them the Smart Data required for the rapid detection and investigation
of advanced threats hidden on the network.
"NETSCOUT's
approach enables greater collaboration between network and security
teams, helping to ensure that key network data is accessible and
actionable," said Jon Oltsik, senior principal analyst, Enterprise
Strategy Group (ESG). "The Company is leveraging pervasive
instrumentation of enterprise networks to deliver end-to-end visibility
across users, applications, protocols and network data. Together with
Arbor Networks Spectrum security analytics and integrated threat
intelligence - NETSCOUT can help orchestrate and automate key network
and security workflows, helping customers detect and investigate threats
faster than traditional approaches."
Automate and Orchestrate Key Service Assurance and Security Threat Detection Workflows with Smart Data from NETSCOUT Solutions
Smart
data is comprised of NETSCOUT patented Adaptive Service Intelligence
(ASI) technology, which provides unprecedented intranet traffic
visibility, and Arbor Networks Active Threat Level Analysis System
(ATLAS), a global threat intelligence infrastructure, which provides
unprecedented internet traffic visibility. This smart data provides
actionable intelligence vital to resolving security threats quickly and
efficiently.
Arbor
Networks ATLAS monitors over one-third of all internet traffic
providing near-real-time visibility into today's emerging threats,
fueling Arbor's mission to help keep the internet stable and secure.
This dynamic intelligence empowers security and network teams with
relevant, actionable information on the threats facing them within the
increasingly connected world.
NETSCOUT
ISNG with ASI technology efficiently analyzes real-time wire data for a
contextual view of service, network and application performance. It
delivers unprecedented scalability and flexibility in multiple form
factors and deployment options: virtual, software and hardware
appliances. NETSCOUT's technology converts high-volume network traffic
into high value, multi-dimensional metadata in real time - effectively
creating "smart data." NETSCOUT smart data is collected, organized,
analyzed and contextualized to provide real-time insight into service
performance degradations across physical, virtual and hybrid cloud
environments. With this integration, ISNG becomes the data source for
Arbor Networks Spectrum, "mining" IP traffic intelligence pervasively
and passively across the network.
Now NETSCOUT customers can use Arbor Networks Spectrum with ISNG to:
- Leverage
common service delivery infrastructure in physical, virtual and cloud
environments that gives security teams pervasive visibility across
users, applications, protocols, and network flow data.
- Provide
security teams with superior intelligence based on the high-resolution
wire data using either dedicated or shared ISNG collectors.
- Take
advantage of smart data from the combined solution to expose and
extract the key potential threat activity across the network, reducing
mean time to resolution of critical security threats.
"With
ISNG, we are now delivering what IT, network and security teams have
been craving during a time of profound technology disruption - a greater
level of simplicity along with more visibility and control over their
distributed environments," said Anil Singhal, president and chief
executive officer, NETSCOUT. "With the integration of Arbor Networks
Spectrum advanced threat capabilities, ISNG customers can leverage their
investment in NETSCOUT solutions to encompass all aspects of IT and
security operations across the enterprise, public sector, and service
provider markets."