Arista Advances Zero Trust Security Strategy with Enhancements to AI-driven Awake Security Platform
March 03 2021 - 09:00AM
Business Wire
Network detection and response combined with
pervasive observability strengthens cybersecurity across cloud,
hybrid and IoT environments
Awake Security, the network detection and response (NDR)
security division of Arista Networks (NYSE:ANET), today unveiled
platform enhancements that strengthen its ability to detect
advanced threats, protect the unmanaged attack surface and
autonomously perform threat hunting and forensic investigations.
Enhancements also include new features that make the platform even
more intuitive for security analysts at all levels. Within six
months of Arista’s acquisition of Awake, the AI-driven network
detection and response (NDR) platform is now integrated into
Arista’s zero trust and DANZ Monitoring Fabric (DMF) solutions,
delivering innovative and secure capabilities to customers.
Awake’s NDR platform is a key pillar of Arista’s vision for zero
trust security. With a new network-based multi-domain
macro-segmentation service, situational awareness for all network
resources and Awake’s NDR, Arista is transforming network security
from an afterthought to networks that are inherently secure. This
approach provides continuous monitoring to identify malicious
intent whether originating from outside or inside the network
perimeter along with the ability to then rapidly take remedial
action.
With this launch, the Awake platform gains critical capabilities
through its deepening integration with Arista solutions. Arista’s
DANZ Monitoring Fabric (DMF) is a next-generation network
visibility solution that provides pervasive observability for both
north-south and east-west traffic. When combined with the Awake
platform, customers benefit from a scale-out architecture that
efficiently protects high-throughput networks by enabling use cases
such as network detection and response (NDR), threat hunting and
full packet network forensics.
“Zero trust is critical to an organization’s defenses and the
integration of Awake into Arista enables this posture even when the
network and entities on it are continuously changing,” said Katie
Teitler, Senior Analyst at TAG Cyber. “In particular, in this age
of remote and mobile work, discovering and controlling devices
unmanaged and often unknown to the security team is incredibly
important to the cyber risk equation. Awake Security’s product
enhancements help organizations move further in their zero trust
journey and empower them to operate more securely.”
Key capabilities now available with the Awake platform
include:
Autonomous Unmanaged Device Discovery and
Risk Tracking: By monitoring the customer’s infrastructure,
Awake’s security knowledge graph, EntityIQ™ has deep visibility to
everything plugged into the network. With the most recent
enhancements, the platform uses encrypted traffic analysis and
other AI-techniques to automatically discover devices that do not
appear to be managed by corporate IT and security teams. This
surfaces, labels and profiles shadow-IT, IoT and other aspects of
the attack surface otherwise invisible to the security team.
Organizations are thus enabled to take purposeful and proactive
steps that enhance security, lower risk and improve the cost and
efficiency of digital asset management.
Autonomous Threat Hunting and
Investigations: Ava™, Awake’s autonomous security analyst, sees
enhanced capabilities to automate forensic investigations. Ava now
performs open source intelligence analysis of discovered artifacts
using natural language processing and topic modeling. Ava-generated
forensic investigation reports have shown that Ava frequently finds
more incident-related activity than a senior human investigator
analyzing the same activity.
Intelligent Role-Centric User
Experience: Recognizing that the information a Level 1 analyst
finds useful and valuable is very different than a Level 3 threat
hunter, Awake has made role-centric usability and workflows a
foundational element of the platform. Today’s launch enables
organizations to surface just the right amount of data and
capabilities based on the role of the analyst using the platform.
This allows the analyst to quickly make risk management decisions
rather than getting bogged down with data overload.
“To enable zero trust, security needs to be baked into the
network, and Arista has led the charge in making this foundational
approach to security a reality,” said Rahul Kashyap, VP / GM Arista
NDR Security Division. “In very short order, Awake is contributing
to this comprehensive vision for security while tapping Arista’s
innovations to advance network detection and response. This will
continue to be a very powerful combination.”
The capabilities of the Awake platform are also available
through Awake’s Managed Network Detection and Response (MNDR)
solution. With Awake’s MNDR, organizations can instantly improve
their security programs’ maturity and effectiveness by relying on
round-the-clock and round-the-world monitoring by the highly
skilled threat hunting and incident response analysts at Awake
Labs.
To get more insight into Awake’s latest innovations and to hear
about Arista’s broader security strategy, join an exclusive virtual
event, Zero Trust Security Strategies in a Multi-Cloud World
featuring Arista and Awake executives and security industry thought
leaders on Tuesday, March 9th, 2021.
Register here to learn more about Awake’s most recent
innovations at our webinar on April 1st, 2021.
Read more about this announcement on Rahul Kashyap’s blog.
About Arista Networks
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networking solutions for large data center and campus environments.
Arista’s award-winning platforms deliver availability, agility,
automation analytics, and security through CloudVision® and Arista
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