Fortinet Named A Strong Performer In The Forrester Wave: Network Analysis And Visibility, Q2 2023 Report
Fortinet News, Wednesday, September 27,2023
The recent Forrester Network Analysis and Visibility (NAV) Wave Report discussed how improved network visibility and network detection and response (NDR) tools 'complement and integrate with security analytics platforms; security orchestration, automation, and response 'SOAR' solutions; and extended detection and response 'XDR' tools to provide complete visibility and analytics to enable zero trust and facilitate response.' NDR tools are integral to a complete security operations program and critical to a proactive security posture.
Security teams turn to NDR tools to spot and identify attacker behavior across the MITRE ATT&CK life cycle. By leveraging the power of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to analyze network metadata, NDR solutions excel in detecting command and control, lateral movement, and data exfiltration techniques and sub-techniques.
In the report, Forrester states that network analysis and visibility (NAV) and NDR tools are critical to establishing an effective zero-trust framework. NDR tools provide 'visibility into all network traffic-north, south, east, and west.' that Forrester notes is another 'key zero-trust tenet.' This visibility extends to inspecting payloads beyond contextual information contained in packet headers and providing deep packet inspection (DPI) to detect potential malicious payloads in a DNS request, for example.