Modern enterprise IT infrastructure is virtualized, leveraging private, public or hybrid “clouds” consisting of internal and external compute resources. And increasingly, enterprise network users are doing business on mobile platforms – smartphones, tablets and notebooks. Traditional security and vulnerability assessment (VA) products already miss at least 20% of what was physically hardwired to the network because they don’t search for the unknown. Additionally, since VA scans stop, take too long to complete or consume too much network resource, they are often performed outside of normal business hours. This means IT security teams fail to gain cyber visibility into those mobile, virtual and cloud assets that simply aren’t present at the time the VA scan is looking.
Lumeta® Enterprise Situational Intelligence (ESI) offers real-time, context-driven security intelligence to address these problems. By enhancing Lumeta’s Recursive Network Indexing techniques with the context of network state change via analysis of network control plane protocols (OSFP, BGP, ARP, DHCP, DNS, ICMPv6, and others), Lumeta ESI is able to provide authoritative network situational awareness, in real-time, as mobile, virtual, cloud assets and even the physical/software defined network itself changes