Sangfor Recognized among Notable Vendors of Network Analysis and Visibility (NAV) Solutions
Sangfor Technologies is pleased to announce its inclusion among Notable Vendors in Forrester’s The Network Analysis and Visibility Landscape, Q1 20231 for its Network Detection and Response (NDR) product – Cyber Command.
The NAV Landscape report is intended to help security & risk (S&R) professionals understand the value they can expect from a NAV vendor, learn how vendors differ, and select one based on size and market focus. The report also goes into detail about the business values, market maturity and dynamics, as well as use cases of NAV solutions.
What are NAV Solutions & Their Benefits?
Forrester defines Network Analysis and Visibility as "Security solutions that deploy passively in networks to analyze network traffic to detect threats using behavioral and signature-based approaches; discover and establish relationships between assets; analyze traffic flow; extract relevant metadata; enable full or targeted packet capture; integrate with other control points to remediate detected threats; and enable network forensics."
We believe that the comprehensive capabilities of NAV solutions provide a number of key benefits:
- AI/ML powered threat detection, ensuring fast and accurate identification of advanced and unknown threats that managed to evade other security technologies.
- Comprehensive visibility of network assets, including shadow IT, ensuring security policy enforcement and timely discovery and remediation of security risks.
- In-depth insight into security incidents, facilitating threat investigation and hunting as well as the remediation of exploited vulnerabilities and weaknesses.
- Automated incident response, delivering rapid threat containment to minimize impact while freeing up security teams to focus on more critical tasks.
- Integration of various security technologies, including firewall, EDR, IDPS, and threat intelligence, providing more holistic detection and response capabilities.
According to the Landscape report, NAV solutions are also a prerequisite for Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) to be effective, noting that "S&R pros need complete visibility into traffic traveling both north/south and east/west. Robust ZT architecture requires NAV solutions, which make all traffic across an enterprise visible."
NAV Solution Use Cases
The Forrester report identifies a range of use cases that NAV solutions provide. These are separated into core use cases, which are those primarily sought by buyers, and extended use cases, which buyers hope to address in addition to the core use cases. These are summarized in the table below.
| Core Use Cases | Extended Use Cases |
|---|---|
| Hybrid cloud/multicloud threat detection | Internet of Things/operating technology (IoT/OT) threat detection |
| Packet capture with retrospective analysis | Encrypted traffic analysis |
| MITRE ATT&CK framework mapping | Threat intelligence feed correlations |
| EDR, XDR, and intrusion detection and prevention (IDP) telemetry data ingestion and correlation | Automated response |
| Application dependency mapping | Asset discovery |
As part of its research, Forrester surveyed each vendor included in the report about the top use cases for which customers choose its product. Using this information, Forrester determined the extended use cases that highlight differentiation among vendors.
In addition to addressing all the core use cases, Sangfor has been found to provide four out of the five extended use cases. These are IoT/OT threat detection, encrypted traffic analysis, automated response, and asset discovery.
Sangfor Cyber Command
Sangfor Cyber Command is a best-in-class Network Detection and Response (NDR) solution that helps organizations accurately detect and respond effectively to advanced and unknown security threats residing in their network.
Cyber Command harnesses the power of artificial intelligence and machine learning to monitor and analyze network-wide traffic in real-time, identifying and alerting security teams to suspicious activity and anomalies. By providing unprecedented visibility of the network environment, Cyber Command empowers security teams to take rapid action to remediate hidden threats, attacks in progress, as well as risks and vulnerabilities. Cyber Command’s built-in SOAR module further enables security teams to automate response actions to detected threats, significantly minimizing the impact caused by security incidents.
With Sangfor Cyber Command, organizations can transform from passive bystanders to active participants in their cyber defense and stay ahead of increasingly sophisticated threats of both today and tomorrow. Get your Cyber Command free trial now: https://active.sangfor.com/cyber-command-free-trial-pov
Useful Links
- Cyber Command Product Page
- Cyber Command Brochure
- Cyber Command Demo Video
- Cyber Command Lightboard Video
- Cyber Command Case Study
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Source:
1. Forrester Research, Inc., The Network Analysis and Visibility Landscape, Q1 2023, By Heath Mullins with Joseph Blankenship and Faith Born, Published February 28, 2023
