DPI-powered application awareness for SIEM

Enhance your SIEM solution with deep packet inspection

An essential component in any cybersecurity solution is the detection of potential and actual threats. To effectively set up threat detection, you need accurate forensic information about applications, protocols and service types. Security information and event management (SIEM) enables your company to recognize security threats and react accordingly by putting a system in place which aggregates, analyses and reports security information. A SIEM application collects logs from databases, applications, operating systems, servers, the cloud, network devices, network gateways and end-user devices as well as flow-based monitoring systems, such as Netflow, IPFIX, jflow and sflow. Data from security devices, such as firewalls and IDS, is analyzed using a set of predefined rules and algorithms to identify attacks and threats. Security teams investigating security incidents use data captured by SIEM to run forensics and root-cause identification. Deep packet inspection (DPI) enables a thorough scan of every data packet. By providing granular traffic insights, DPI engines help you to augment your SIEM solution with real-time visibility into all network flows – even encrypted traffic.

Real-time threat management with DPI-driven traffic insights

Modern SIEM solutions can immediately detect anomalies in network traffic. Of course, malware designers are aware of the most recent developments as well. They therefore try to conceal their attack behind common protocols that a company’s security solution is unlikely to recognize as malicious. Hence, security software vendors in particular need to upgrade their cybersecurity strategy to become application-aware and distinguish regular network traffic from malware.

With DPI technology from ipoque, you can enrich your data logs with protocol, application and service type information derived with advanced traffic classification methods that include statistical, behavioral and heuristic analysis, as well as machine learning and deep learning techniques. By leveraging integration with leading flow monitoring and reporting standards such as IPFIX, you can enrich your flow records not only with application recognition, but also a wide range of traffic attributes, such as throughput, speeds, latency, packet loss, users, devices and source/destination addresses. Our DPI engines R&S®PACE 2 and R&S®vPACE enable your SIEM software to identify flows that are suspicious, anomalous or malicious in real time, accelerating the identification of threats and abuse. With encrypted traffic intelligence, deep packet inspection technology from ipoque can discern traffic flows that are encrypted, obfuscated and anonymized, allowing visibility into hidden or masked threats. Combining SIEM data with DPI’s fine-grained traffic analysis enhances rule-based correlation and analysis of traffic events, which can be used to improve detection rates and alert network administrators about impending threats.

Deep packet inspection from ipoque enables your SIEM solution to:

• Identify security events quickly and accurately
• Monitor traffic anomalies and irregularities
• Establish application-aware dynamic monitoring requirements
• Identify compromised applications and devices as well as affected users in real time
• Devise application-aware rules for identification and reporting of threats
• Perform targeted security analyses for priority and critical applications
• Improve root-cause analysis
• Automate threat responses and mitigate threats in real time
• Implement granular access control
• Implement application-specific regulatory and audit compliance
• Identify long-term trends in enterprise security threats in terms of attack vectors and sources
• Identify risks and vulnerabilities across different applications
• Deliver comprehensive traffic analytics for planning and deployment of security policies or functions