Ixia Enhances Application and Threat Intelligence Processor™ to Accelerate Detection and Response Time to Cyberattacks
November 09 2016 - 7:31AM
Business Wire
Ixia (Nasdaq: XXIA), a leading provider of network testing,
visibility, and security solutions, today announced enhancements to
the company’s Application and Threat Intelligence Processor
(ATIP™), which enables customers to rapidly extract security
metadata, including Indicators of Compromise (IOC), and fast-track
that information to reporting tools to speed Mean Time to Identify
(MTTI) and Mean Time to Respond (MTTR) to security threats and
malicious behavior.
In March 2016, the Ponemon Institute reported that it takes on
average, 170 days to detect an advanced attack, 39 days to contain
it and 43 days to remediate it. In addition, as the amount of
traffic on a network surges, it becomes increasingly important to
rapidly analyze large volumes of data, or metadata, both
unencrypted and encrypted. This analysis enables the identification
of malware infections known as Indicators of Compromise (forensic
data that identify potentially malicious activity on a
network).
“Reducing the time to identify and respond to cyberattacks is
critical to today’s business,” said Jim Duffy, senior analyst, 451
Research. “Ixia’s ability to quickly analyze context-aware metadata
in a network can be a valuable tool in gaining visibility into
anomalies and ultimately resolving security breaches.”
Ixia’s ATIP is a key component of the company’s Security
Fabric™, a context-aware, self-healing, data distribution engine
that powers Ixia’s network packet brokers (NPBs). Using ATIP,
Ixia’s Security Fabric provides rich context such as geolocation,
browser, and device on each packet for optimal distribution to
security tools.
New enhancements to ATIP now enable security and network
professionals to rapidly extract metadata from their network
connections, including IOC, spanning URLs, Uniform Resource
Identifiers, Session Initiation and Cisco Discovery
Protocols, Domain Name System Text, and User Agent. This
deeper context aware metadata enables existing reporting tools to
deliver analysis results quickly and effectively, resulting in
significant improvements in MTTI and MTTR to threats and suspicious
activity.
“Ixia is committed to leveraging and extending our decade-plus
experience in advanced malware research to solve the key challenges
facing network operators today,” said Scott Register, vice
president of product management at Ixia. “We make significant
investments in research that helps our customers to quickly
identify inevitable security breaches with minimal investment of
time and money."
ATIP maximizes investment in reporting tools
ATIP works in conjunction with advanced reporting solutions from
leading vendors including Plixer, LiveAction, Splunk, and
Dynatrace, to provide key insights that accelerate detection of
data breaches without the added cost of a specialized forensic
monitor.
For example, Scrutinizer™ from Plixer International provides a
behavior analysis system for cyber threat detection and forensic
analysis that leverages flow data to uncover unwanted activity.
Ixia’s ATIP generates and forwards an expanded NetFlow data feed,
called IxFlow™, to Scrutinizer. This expanded data feed compliments
Scrutinizer, allowing it analyze information from all points in the
data center, enabling administrators to identify users, device
types, operating systems, and applications that generate excessive
traffic or security threats. Malware can be quickly isolated and
unwanted behaviors can be eliminated.
“Ixia’s IxFlow exports provide much richer data and deeper
context than is available through NetFlow alone. With the latest
enhancements to ATIP, Ixia has added indicators of compromise,”
stated Mike Patterson, CEO of Plixer. “Joint Plixer and Ixia
customers can leverage this new information to identify compromised
devices, provide user accountability and speed time to resolution,
which are critical capabilities when security events have taken
place.”
About Ixia
Ixia (Nasdaq: XXIA) provides testing, visibility, and security
solutions, strengthening applications across physical and virtual
networks for enterprises, service providers, and network equipment
manufacturers. Ixia offers companies trusted environments in which
to develop, deploy, and operate. Customers worldwide rely on Ixia
to verify their designs, optimize their performance, and ensure
protection of their networks to make their applications stronger.
Learn more at www.ixiacom.com.
Ixia, the Ixia logo, Application Threat Intelligence Processor,
ATIP, Security Fabric, and IxFlow are trademarks or registered
trademarks of Ixia in the United States and other jurisdictions.
All other trademarks used herein are the property of their
respective owners.
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