Encrypted network traffic is now the norm, with 95% of communications using protocols like TLS. While this improves security, it creates blind spots for older tools that rely on Deep Packet Inspection (DPI). CySight addresses this by using AI and machine learning to analyze encrypted traffic without needing decryption. Here’s how it works:
- Full Traffic Visibility: CySight retains 100% of network telemetry, unlike older tools that discard most data.
- AI-Driven Detection: Behavioral baselines identify threats like ransomware, insider misuse, and lateral movement.
- Agentless Design: Simplifies deployment and reduces operational overhead.
- Seamless Integration: Supports major vendors and flow protocols, ensuring compatibility with diverse infrastructures.
- Real-Time Monitoring: Combines instant alerts with historical data for proactive and reactive security measures.
CySight offers a scalable, AI-powered solution for encrypted traffic analysis, helping organizations maintain security, improve efficiency, and simplify compliance – all without decrypting sensitive data.
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AI-Powered Analysis Without Decryption
Traditional methods often fall short when facing modern network security challenges. CySight takes a different route by removing the need for decryption altogether. Instead of cracking packets or relying on outdated Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) methods, it uses AI and machine learning to analyze network traffic and uncover threats without decrypting data. CySight captures 100% of traffic telemetry – including session context, asset roles, and port behavior – while older tools discard over 99% of this critical information. Its AI creates behavioral baselines for network activity and identifies even the smallest deviations. By combining global threat intelligence with machine learning, CySight can detect threats like ransomware, botnets, data exfiltration, and lateral movement effectively. This approach ensures unified threat detection across any environment.
Complete Threat Detection Across All Environments
Designed for hybrid environments, CySight ensures consistent visibility across on-premises networks, cloud systems, and wide area networks (WAN). It continuously monitors and baselines every asset and interaction, delivering unified observability across all layers of an organization’s infrastructure. In an era where encryption renders DPI ineffective for 99% of traffic, CySight’s AI-driven detection provides a clear advantage. It supports standard flow protocols and integrates with major vendors like Keysight (Ixia), Gigamon, Cisco, and Check Point, making it easy to deploy within diverse network setups. This level of visibility ensures enterprise-wide security is both comprehensive and efficient.
Agentless and Scalable Design
CySight’s agentless design eliminates the need for endpoint agents, reducing operational overhead and cutting down on potential security risks. Built for scalability, it handles millions of flows per second through clustered queries across multiple data warehouses, ensuring performance remains steady even as traffic increases. This agentless setup improves detection accuracy, allowing IT teams to focus on real threats rather than wasting time on false alarms. With its scalable architecture, CySight adapts to the demands of growing networks while maintaining reliability and precision.
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Core Technologies Behind Encrypted Traffic Analysis
CySight’s approach to analyzing encrypted network traffic is built around three key technologies that provide deep visibility without compromising security. These innovations tackle a major shortfall in legacy NDR and flow tools, which often discard over 99% of telemetry data, leaving potential threats undetected.
Adaptive AI and Behavioral Baselining
CySight leverages AI to secure encrypted traffic without needing decryption. Its adaptive AI continuously learns from network behavior, identifying unusual patterns in encrypted traffic. By creating behavioral baselines for every connected asset across both network and cloud environments, the system develops a clear picture of normal activity. When deviations from these baselines occur, they can signal potential threats – even in encrypted traffic. This method reduces false alarms and speeds up threat detection, a critical improvement considering traditional systems take an average of 200 days to identify breaches.
Enriched Flow Telemetry
CySight transforms raw network data into actionable insights by enriching 100% of traffic telemetry, unlike traditional tools that either sample data or ignore encrypted traffic. This enriched telemetry captures detailed metadata, enabling real-time monitoring and threat detection. For instance, with nearly half of all Internet traffic encrypted via HTTPS as of 2017, traditional deep packet inspection has become less effective. CySight’s enriched data allows its AI to identify threats like ransomware callbacks, insider misuse, lateral movement, Tor activity, and policy violations – all without analyzing packet payloads.
The platform supports a variety of protocols, including NetFlow, IPFIX, sFlow, ixFlow, and VeloCloud.
Zero-Trust Architecture Support
CySight also strengthens internal network security by aligning with zero-trust principles. It uses continuous behavioral monitoring and micro-segmentation to enforce granular security controls based on real-time network behavior instead of static rules. This capability simplifies analytics for zero-trust environments, routing and peering, and even usage-based billing, making it suitable for ISPs, MSPs, government agencies, campuses, and enterprises.
CySight Benefits for Enterprise Networks
Better Network Visibility
CySight provides a level of network visibility that traditional tools simply can’t match. With 95% of network traffic now encrypted, older methods like Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) and flow analyzers struggle to detect hidden threats effectively. CySight changes the game by delivering over 20× the visibility compared to conventional solutions like Network Detection and Response (NDR) tools, DPI, and flow analyzers. It captures detailed metadata that uncovers threats lurking in encrypted communications. This deeper insight empowers organizations to go beyond surface-level monitoring, cutting down on false positives and identifying real risks. Using AI, CySight continuously establishes baselines for every connected device, whether on the network or in the cloud, making it easier to detect lateral movements and insider threats.
Real-Time and Historical Threat Analysis
CySight’s enhanced visibility doesn’t just stop at detection – it supports both proactive and reactive security measures. The platform offers real-time alerts and detailed historical tracking, enabling swift responses and ensuring compliance. By bridging real-time threat detection with forensic analysis, CySight creates a complete security picture. Its AI-powered diagnostics monitor network behavior without needing to decrypt packets, allowing for fast identification and mitigation of threats. This dual capability is critical for combating advanced persistent threats, giving organizations the tools to monitor live activity while also performing in-depth post-incident investigations.
Improved Efficiency for IT Teams
In addition to its security benefits, CySight simplifies operations for IT teams. Traditional monitoring tools often overwhelm teams with unnecessary alerts, leaving gaps that allow 40% of organizations to experience silent intrusions. CySight addresses this by focusing on genuine threats, reducing alert fatigue, and speeding up detection times to prevent damage. It also supports forensic traceability and provides compliance-ready reporting, streamlining both incident response and regulatory tasks. With a consistent interface across network and cloud environments, CySight reduces management complexity and minimizes the training needed for IT staff. Automated diagnostics further free up analysts to focus on strategic decision-making rather than manual threat hunting.
Integration with Other Telnet Networks Solutions
Easy Integration Across Infrastructures
CySight works hand-in-hand with Telnet Networks’ line up of visibility and security solutions to create a unified platform for security and performance. This integration combines real-time insights, threat detection, and forensic analytics into a single system. It directly addresses a major challenge for organizations today: 70% of companies struggle to achieve in-depth visibility, often leading to analyst fatigue from false positives and overlooked threats.
The integration process is designed to be straightforward and adaptable. CySight’s engine is built to streamline integration with third-party tools, allowing seamless cross-analysis with solutions like packet brokers, proxies, firewalls, and policy managers. This means organizations can maximize their existing Telnet Networks infrastructure while adding advanced capabilities for analyzing encrypted traffic.
CySight is also compatible with a wide range of flow vendors and networking equipment, making it suitable for diverse enterprise environments. The platform ingests data using multiple protocols from various network devices, ensuring it fits into virtually any infrastructure. This unified approach not only simplifies network visibility but also reduces the time it takes for operations teams to detect threats. By bridging advanced encrypted traffic analysis with Telnet Networks’ other systems, solutions and tools, organizations gain a comprehensive view for monitoring security and performance.
Supporting Mission-Critical Environments
Beyond integration, this solution is built to meet the demanding needs of mission-critical environments. For over 25 years, Telnet Networks has supported medium and large enterprises, managed service providers, and government agencies with reliable network solutions. With CySight, these capabilities are enhanced through AI-driven baselining, behavioral detection, and deep forensic analysis.
The combined solutions tackle scalability issues head-on, offering unmatched clarity across enterprise networks. Unlike legacy tools that discard over 99% of telemetry and miss critical threats, CySight provides complete visibility. This is essential in mission-critical settings, where 40% of organizations experience silent intrusions due to visibility gaps.
CySight’s architecture is designed with flexibility in mind. It supports multi-tenancy collection, offers a centralized management portal, and includes automated reporting that integrates with upstream services. This makes it an excellent fit for managed service providers and large enterprises supporting multiple clients or business units. The platform also offers deployment options for both on-premise and cloud environments, alongside flexible licensing models.
Another key advantage is its ability to address compliance challenges. Many organizations – half, to be exact – report that poor visibility hampers their ability to meet regulatory requirements. With CySight and Telnet Networks, businesses gain the forensic tools and detailed reporting needed for compliance. The platform’s consistent interface across network and cloud devices simplifies management, making it easier to maintain compliance in hybrid setups.
Finally, CySight integrates seamlessly with Telnet Networks’ performance management tools, delivering a complete solution for threat intelligence. This ensures mission-critical environments are equipped with the insights and protection needed to maintain top-tier operations. By combining CySight with Telnet Networks other systems and tools, organizations strengthen their defenses from edge to core, creating a resilient and adaptable network security framework.
Securing Networks with CySight
Encrypted traffic has fundamentally changed the landscape of network security. With 95% of network communication now encrypted, older methods like Deep Packet Inspection can no longer provide the visibility enterprises need. This is where CySight steps in, offering a modern approach that preserves encryption while delivering critical network insights.
CySight stands out by delivering 20× the visibility of outdated NDR tools. It achieves this by retaining and enriching 100% of telemetry – a vital capability, especially when 40% of organizations face undetected intrusions.
The platform also simplifies compliance with regulations thanks to its automated incident response features. On top of that, its scalable design adapts seamlessly to any setup, whether you’re managing a single data center or a sprawling multi-cloud environment.
For IT teams grappling with the challenges of encrypted traffic, CySight offers a practical and effective solution. By delivering the insights needed to detect threats, maintain compliance, and optimize network performance – all while safeguarding encryption – CySight, alongside Telnet Networks, provides a secure and efficient path forward for modern network management.
FAQs
How does CySight use AI to analyze encrypted network traffic without compromising security?
CySight leverages cutting-edge AI technology to examine encrypted network traffic without ever needing to decrypt it. This ensures that both privacy and security remain intact throughout the process. Unlike traditional Deep Packet Inspection (DPI), which struggles with encrypted data and often requires decryption, CySight takes a different route. It analyzes traffic patterns, metadata, and flow data to spot potential threats in real time.
This approach delivers up to 20 times more visibility into encrypted traffic compared to conventional methods. The result? Enterprises can identify and address threats faster and more efficiently. Plus, by skipping the decryption step, CySight not only boosts operational efficiency but also upholds the stringent security demands of today’s networks.
How does CySight’s agentless design benefit IT teams managing large and complex networks?
CySight’s agentless design brings major benefits for IT teams managing complex and expansive networks. Without the hassle of installing and maintaining agents on individual devices, this approach cuts down on deployment time and avoids unnecessary interruptions to the network.
This setup provides broad and scalable visibility across the entire infrastructure, enabling teams to identify and address issues swiftly. It also reduces the burden of ongoing maintenance, freeing up IT professionals to prioritize improving network performance and strengthening security.
How does CySight comply with privacy regulations like GDPR and HIPAA while analyzing encrypted network traffic?
CySight helps organizations stay compliant with regulations like GDPR and HIPAA by using advanced encrypted traffic analysis methods that don’t rely on decryption. This means sensitive data remains private and secure while still allowing for meaningful insights into network activities.
By analyzing metadata and network behavior, CySight provides a way to monitor encrypted traffic without breaking encryption protocols. This approach ensures adherence to privacy laws that limit or prohibit data decryption, offering a secure and regulation-friendly solution tailored for today’s enterprise needs.
