Proactive Protection Beyond the Endpoint

The IT landscape for delivering applications and other services to end users has shifted to a hybrid deployment model, and this change is here to stay. While it provides myriad benefits for IT teams and their organizations, it also complicates the cybersecurity landscape, which needs protecting.

Attackers continuously find new techniques to bypass traditional security measures. Today’s cybersecurity defenses need a multilayered approach that includes multiple defensive solutions, techniques and processes from the user endpoint to the servers delivering business applications. One thing is clear: relying on endpoint protection isn’t sufficient.

On the other hand, the proliferation of tools at multiple layers in the defensive chain, from endpoints to servers, generates so many alerts that cybersecurity professionals become overwhelmed trying to address them. Thankfully, the Progress Flowmon solution and its detection and alerting capabilities can reduce this network complexity and simplify application and user defenses without sacrificing security.

Why Endpoint Protection Isn’t Enough

The increasing use of hybrid IT environments, which blend on-premises infrastructure with cloud services, has made cybersecurity efforts more complex. This larger attack surface gives threat actors more chances to infiltrate networks, move laterally and carry out their attacks without detection. Protecting these diverse environments requires an in-depth approach that can monitor and analyze activity across all network segments, cloud services and applications.

Endpoint protection is still essential in every cybersecurity strategy, but it’s not enough to handle all the threats organizations face today. Attacks on hybrid environments use advanced techniques such as MFA bypass, spear phishing, living off the land (LOTL), credential stuffing and zero-day exploits to find vulnerabilities across an environment. Since cybercriminals target vulnerabilities beyond endpoints, traditional solutions can’t effectively monitor or protect against them.

Deploying 24/7 Threat Detection Is a Necessity

Given the threat landscape from hybrid environments, organizations must implement continuous, 24/7 threat detection capabilities. However, this often poses significant challenges for security teams due to the volume of alerts generated by the security tools. Dealing with this alert volume can lead to fatigue, with some analysts typically facing over 10,000 daily alerts. This overload makes identifying and prioritizing critical incidents more complex, potentially allowing dangerous activities to slip through unnoticed in the noise.

While deploying 24/7 threat detection is necessary, it must be done in a way that boosts security without overwhelming your cybersecurity team.

How Flowmon Boosts Protection for Endpoints and Beyond

The Flowmon solution addresses these challenges by providing solutions that complement and work alongside other security solutions in a multilayered defense strategy. Flowmon leverages advanced AI and machine learning techniques to deliver:

• In-Depth Coverage – Monitor network activity across hybrid environments, including on-premises networks and cloud services.

• Intelligent Alert Prioritization – Helps security teams focus on critical threats and reduce alert noise as they leverage the AI-powered engine filters and prioritize alerts.

• Thorough Behavioral Analysis – Identify suspicious activities that may evade traditional signature-based detection methods, such as Flowmon adaptive baselining and anomaly detection.

• Rapid Incident Response – Enables security teams to respond more quickly and effectively to potential threats through actionable insights and analytics automation.

• Enhanced Visibility – Detect and investigate threats across the IT estate with a holistic view of network activity.

By deploying Flowmon Network Detection and Response (NDR) alongside existing endpoint security and other protection solutions, organizations can create a resilient security posture capable of defending against modern, sophisticated attacks. Here are some examples of the attack types that the Flowmon solution can help protect against:

• Zero-Day Exploits – Respond to zero-day vulnerabilities to overcome challenges. Leverage AI-powered Flowmon threat detection to identify unusual network behavior and potential indicators of compromise.

• Living Off the Land – Identify attackers attempting to blend in with regular network activity, even using legitimate tools and techniques, through Flowmon adaptive baselining and anomaly detection.

• Credential Stuffing – Enable security teams to take action before attackers gain access to systems by detecting multiple failed login attempts and alert security teams to possible credential stuffing attacks.

In addition to detecting these specific threats, the Flowmon detection engine, extensive experience knowledgebase, intelligent prioritization of alerts and automated analytics means it can detect and alert about emerging threats and many other attack vectors.

Flowmon security solution reduces the time needed to detect an attack or breach, improves the efficiency of security investigations and ultimately enhances an organization’s overall cybersecurity posture.

Explore how Flowmon detected an attack in real time for one of our customers in the public sector.

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Organizations must adopt broad security solutions as cyberthreats continue to evolve and target vulnerabilities beyond the endpoint in hybrid environments. Flowmon provides the necessary tools and capabilities to improve defenses against advanced threats and offers continuous monitoring, intelligent analysis and rapid response capabilities that complement other protection methods.

Visit the Flowmon platform page for information on the current release and the Flowmon Security Operations page for details about Flowmon NDR. To speak with an expert about how Flowmon can improve your network security, contact us.

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