Advanced Security Threat Services
Advanced Cyber Security Threat Services Improved security that evolves with you
Your IT services are transforming to meet changing business needs, while your staff are working from a wider variety of locations than ever. The protected borders are expanding from the office out to the end-user and multiple cloud platforms. Each expansion opens up more routes for attack, and those attacks are becoming increasingly subtle and complex. Cyber security threat detection and response solutions also have to transform to remain effective, but implementing more and more tactical point-solutions leaves less time to effectively investigate potential threats.
Our specialist team continually adapts Palo Alto’s AI-driven Cortex security platform to detect, validate and block abnormal behaviours across your end-user, network and cloud security sources. Whatever your starting point, we can help you grow your cyber capability to protect your transforming infrastructure capability.
Underlying Technology from Palo Alto Cortex
The Cortex platform receives security-related telemetry data from Palo Alto endpoint and cloud protection tools as well as their firewalls to provide comprehensive coverage of your hybrid infrastructure. (Certain 3rd party vendor firewalls, such as Cisco, are also supported.)
Even if you don’t have any compatible systems in place, we can start from a passive monitoring base and expand to a system that can isolate a detected threat.
The telemetry data is collected in the Cortex data lake where an AI-driven system continually baselines the normal operation of your users and applications, detecting when something suspicious and out of the ordinary occurs. The event data is automatically compared against a constantly updated global database of known threats to determine its severity.
For a fully-managed service, our analysts investigate a suspicious event, using the Cortex capabilities to determine the timing and chain of events of any breach, informing you as soon as it’s discovered. We can then respond to isolate an affected individual or block the source of the attack across all users/offices.
Our analysts constantly check emerging threats and create matching discovery and behavioural identification rules within the Cortex platform to keep protection up to date. As they get to know your company’s normal data patterns, they can reduce false alerts even further and even focus on specific areas of interest as requested.
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Threat Detection Platform Deployment
Take the next step in providing advanced security for your hybrid infrastructure. Net Consulting can help get your own Cortex instance set up, and configure your supported tools to send telemetry to the data lake.
If you have no tooling in place that is compatible with Cortex, we can implement a passive firewall monitoring solution to provide telemetry until you decide that the time is right to deploy an active in-line version. Similarly, we can implement passive end-point monitoring to provide telemetry on security-related end-user activities, and enable active protection at a later date.
Finally, we can implement protection to provide telemetry on the various cloud platforms and hosted applications that you use. Your analysts can then start investigating the integrated & correlated security information available.
Threat Detection Platform Deployment Benefits
Fully-Managed Threat Detection and Response Service
Keeping on top of Cyber security is a full-time job. You know it’s essential, but if Cyber isn’t in your company’s core capabilities, then it can be a distraction and a drain on your staff. Let Net Consulting focus on your security so that you can focus on your business.
We’ll help you configure and deploy the necessary data collection across your users, networks and cloud environments, then our Service Operations Centre (SOC) can get to work understanding the normal activities of your applications and data. The AI-driven Cortex threat detection platform helps highlight abnormalities and potential issues for our analysts investigate, informing you of anything suspicious. The more we get to know your working patterns, the more we can tune the alerting to focus on what’s most relevant to you. So, if your Internet-enabled fridge suddenly starts beaconing out to an address it’s never been to before, for example, we’ll spot it.
Because Cyber security never stays still, our dedicated Cyber team constantly checks for emerging threats and configures the platform to look out for them. Combine this research with active threat-hunting, and the chances of a breach are greatly reduced. Threat detection is critical, but we can go further and provide an effective response, isolating a compromised end-user or setting firewalls to block access to the newly identified source of malware or “Command & Control” type reconnaissance server.
Benefits of Fully-Managed Threat Detection and Response
On-Demand Platform Analysis and Configuration Support
Even if you have your own internally-managed Cortex platform, you may still need some additional help covering busy periods, or building custom configuration. Net Consulting can help by providing on-demand support to overcome the bottleneck.
If you need some additional help to keep an eye on your Cortex platform while your staff are busy on high priority projects, then provide our Service Operations Centre (SOC) temporary access and we’ll monitor it on your behalf.
Similarly, if you need some customisation to detect specific occurrences or general behaviours, or need an automated response activity creating, our analysts can be assigned the project on your behalf. We’ll test it in our own environment, then document and hand over the results. If you are expanding your Cortex coverage to end-point or cloud protection, we can help onboard the data to enhance your detection capabilities.
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