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Arista Advances Zero Trust Security Strategy With Enhancements to AI-driven Awake Security Platform

March 2021 by Marc Jacob

Awake Security 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.

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.

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.


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