WatchGuard Technologies, a global leader in unified cybersecurity, today announced the launch of ThreatSync+ NDR and WatchGuard Compliance Reporting. ThreatSync+ NDR is uniquely suited for businesses of any size that operate with smaller IT teams or limited cybersecurity resources. The first in a new ThreatSync+ family of products, ThreatSync+ NDR automates and simplifies continuous monitoring, detection, and remediation of threats using an advanced AI detection engine. It cuts through the noise of billions of network flows to surface actionable risks and threats quickly and efficiently. This open XDR solution delivers visibility into east/west and north/south network traffic that was previously only available to large enterprises with the resources to manage their own security operations center (SOC).
Modern AI for Superior Threat Detection and Response
ThreatSync+ NDR utilizes an advanced AI engine with a dual-layered neural network approach, a key technology from WatchGuard’s acquisition of CyGlass in 2023. The AI engine in ThreatSync+ correlates and presents anomalies as risk-scored and prioritized incidents, giving managed service providers (MSPs) and IT security pros an intuitive dashboard that includes incident location, devices, users, and timelines, empowering them to focus on the most critical threats, review guidance on mitigation, and ultimately, better protect their organizations.
“WatchGuard ThreatSync+ NDR provides an additional layer of advanced protection that was previously out of reach,” said Don Gulling, founder and chief executive officer at Verteks Consulting. “In the past, delivering NDR was difficult due to its complexity and high operating costs. Because WatchGuard’s cloud-based architecture doesn’t require us to install or manage any hardware, we can quickly, easily and cost-effectively deploy ThreatSync+ NDR for our customers. With the affordable, world-class AI-based protection offered by WatchGuard ThreatSync+ NDR, we can now bring our customers increased protection while also creating significant growth opportunity for our business.”
ThreatSync+ NDR In Action
ThreatSync+ NDR watches for attacks as they unfold in the network and excels at finding attacks that have eluded perimeter defenses including ransomware, vulnerability and supply chain attacks. Attackers cannot see ThreatSync+ NDR because it uses AI to search out the attackers’ actions buried in the network traffic. At the same time, attackers cannot hide because they must use the network to expand their attack. That means NDR is uniquely capable of detecting unfolding attack stages, including command and control calls, lateral movement in the network, reconnaissance scans done on networks and subnets, data-staging movement in the network, malware and encryption packages being deployed in the network, and data exfiltration.
SOURCE: GlobeNewswire