Five Strategies for Proactively Embracing Failure

As information security professionals, we constantly ask, "Are we doing enough?" The answer is usually a resounding "No." Read the article by Steve Shillingford

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Total Network Recall

At some point, all of your network security tools will fail. They won't fail in their ability to do what they are designed to do, of course; they will continue to look for and protect you from known threats. However, they won't be able to protect you from the "unknown unknowns." History has proven that new methods of intrusion will be developed, new viruses will be unleashed, innovative denial of service attacks will arise and hackers will find a way in and valuable data will be stolen.

  • 94% of the time, network monitoring tools will fail to report a breach¹
  • 9 out of 10 breaches involve unknown data, unknown connections, unknown privileges or unknown systems¹
  • 63% of the time, discovering a compromise will take months¹
  • The average cost of a data breach is $6.3 million²
 

Detection Requires Complete Information

To detect new and sophisticated attacks, you must assemble to determine the full source, scope and context of any security event. In other words, you need total recall of everything that has transpired on the network. Total Network Recall requires capturing every bit that traverses the network at ultra high speed and the ability to store voluminous amounts of data efficiently. But a massive, unorganized data dump won't do you any good. Without advanced tools to facilitate easy access, it could take days or weeks to manually determine why the attack succeeded and what can be done to prevent recurrence.

Solera Networks Forensic Appliances provide intelligent Total Network Recall.

Only Solera Networks provides the 10 Gbps data capture rate needed to collect and store everything happening on the network. But Solera Networks offers much more than just high speed collection and storage. With Solera DeepSee Forensics Suite administrators can isolate any event and figuratively "roll back the videotape" of a specific event or anomaly for rapid analysis of any type of attack, either known or completely new.

Give your network a memory like a steel trap-Total Network Recall. Get the ability to replay any network event, even the "unknown unknowns" with full fidelity. See what happened, quickly determine how to minimize the damage, and fortify the network against similar attacks

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¹Verizon Business 2008/2009 Data Breach Investigation Report

²Information Week, "The Cost of Data Loss Rises"