“Cyber security challenges continue to evolve as attackers become more sophisticated,” said Elliott Starin, CTO and Co-founder of MantisNet. “The PPE is deployed alongside production networking appliances and digests raw data to transform it into a serialized stream of metadata for consumption in analytics tools. The difference between traditional network monitoring and MantisNet's PPE is its ability to use real-time data as a window into current network activity. Using real-time data, analysts can make intelligent decisions based on the current state of the network and thus provide better protection for their network.”

The volume and velocity of enterprise networking in a standard IT infrastructure creates a problem for visibility of both big data and fast data. Capturing full packets is useful, but does not provide a real-world snapshot and therefore displays a fragmented picture to data analytics software. With MantisNet's PPE, cyber security analysts receive an intelligent, targeted extraction of metadata straight from real-time protocol traffic.

With the release of MantisNet's PPE, downstream analytic applications can filter out "noise" and use a lightweight yet contextual form of data for improved intelligent decisions. Our PPE addresses traditional problems faced by cyber security and IT administrators by capturing real-time traffic whether it's a challenge of volume or velocity.

MantisNet PPE provides granular network protocol-specific data for analysis in a continuous real-time stream. These streams can be captured by any number of third-party applications (Kafka, Kinesis, etc). The PPE can be programmed to output a number of industry-standard formats including JSON, PROTOBUF, AVRO, and more. It's a true fast data pipeline for networks that use big data architectures from 1G to 10G network speeds.

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About MantisNet (www.MantisNet.com) 

MantisNet develops Software Defined Network (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) network intelligence solutions that provide businesses and governments real-time network monitoring solutions, for 100G speeds and beyond. MantisNet’s solutions better enable network teams to monitor, manage and engineer the increase in network traffic flows they’re experiencing compared to traditional packet brokers, firewalls and event management solutions. We offer end-to-end visibility through wire-speed network monitoring and protocol analysis (from the L2 to L7 layers) and provide the capability for real-time engineering and remediation to act on network threats such as operational issues, threats, fraud, and malicious activities, either manually or autonomously. Our solutions are deployed at leading telecom, service providers, NEM labs and government sites. We work to make network intelligence actionable for a broad range of DevOps, network and application performance testing, streaming analytics, and cyber security applications. For more information, visit https://www.MantisNet.com