Aviz Networks and OpenText details NDR traffic layer
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Aviz Networks and OpenText describe a joint approach to Network Detection and Response that inserts a traffic intelligence layer before analysis, so detection tools receive optimized and enriched data rather than raw packet streams. The blog says the goal is to improve visibility, reduce noise, and support threat investigations across enterprise environments.
Research Overview
The blog frames NDR as useful for spotting advanced threats that bypass traditional controls, including lateral movement and insider activity. It also says enterprise traffic volumes across data centers, campus networks, edge sites, and hybrid cloud environments can make full packet capture difficult.
According to the post, collecting all traffic can overload detection systems, while selective capture can leave gaps in coverage. It adds that this can leave security teams with fragmented visibility, more alerts, and less context during investigations.
Technical Breakdown
The joint solution places Aviz between the network and OpenText NDR. Aviz provides packet acquisition, traffic optimization, and metadata enrichment before traffic is sent for analysis.
The blog says OpenText NDR then analyzes the optimized traffic to identify threats such as lateral movement, insider threats, and encrypted attack activity. It describes the objective as improving the quality of the traffic stream reaching the detection platform.
Operational Impact
For CISOs and CIOs, the post argues that detection performance depends on the quality of the network intelligence feeding the platform. It says better traffic context can strengthen security operations.
The blog lists four outcomes: improved detection accuracy, less alert fatigue, faster investigations, and visibility across data center, campus, edge, and cloud environments. It attributes these outcomes to filtering redundant traffic and enriching the data before analysis.
Leadership Perspective
The post presents the integration as a way to support security teams as network environments become more complex. It says organizations need optimized, high-fidelity traffic to help detection tools work with more context.
Aviz Networks and OpenText say the combined approach is meant to help teams detect threats faster and reduce operational noise. This Blog Summary is a fact-based summary of the vendor blog.
Blog post, originally published at aviznetworks.com.