Network Monitoring Assessment

The Network Monitoring Assessment enables network engineers, SOC leads, and infrastructure directors to audit the comprehensiveness and efficacy of their network monitoring architecture. It evaluates visibility into physical switches, software-defined WANs (SD-WAN), and multi-cloud virtual networks.

The tool inspects key telemetry domains including flow protocol export (NetFlow/sFlow/IPFIX), sensor placement at core chokepoints, encrypted traffic behavioral analytics, unauthorized protocol detection, and integration with central SIEM or data lake platforms.

Traditional network security concentrated exclusively on "North-South" traffic—data entering or exiting the organization through the perimeter firewall. While essential for catching initial inbound exploitation and outbound data exfiltration, North-South monitoring is completely blind to "East-West" traffic: communication flowing horizontally between servers, workstations, and database clusters inside the private network.

Modern threat actors exploit this blind spot. Once an initial workstation is compromised via phishing, the attacker conducts network reconnaissance, executes Pass-the-Hash attacks, and moves laterally using internal SMB, RDP, and WMI connections. Without internal TAP sensors or East-West flow telemetry (such as Zeek or VPC Flow Logs), the SOC remains completely unaware of the intruder until ransomware detonates or sensitive databases are dumped.