FULTON, MD – IronNet,Inc., a market leader in Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) and the industry’s first real-time, machine-speed Collective Defense provider, announced the expansion of IronDefense functionality to support the new Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) traffic mirroring feature from Amazon Web Services (AWS), introduced this morning at AWS re:Inforce 2019. With this new capability, customers can now replicate their AWS network traffic and send it natively to IronDefense for advanced behavioral analysis. Benefits to customers include:
“Traffic visibility is a critical and foundational element to helping AWS customers keep infrastructure safe and functional,” said Dave Brown, Vice President – EC2 Compute & Networking Services, Amazon Web Services, Inc.. “IronNet’s ability to ingest Amazon VPC traffic mirroring and apply advanced network detection across customers’ AWS and on-premises environments, delivers an important solution to help them defend against cyber threats targeting cloud environments”
“The new Amazon VPC traffic mirroring capability provides the IronDefense platform with native access to critical virtual network data that allows it to seamlessly monitor network anomalies across AWS and enterprise networks to identify advanced threat actors,” said Dr. Michael Ehrlich, Chief Technology Officer, IronNet. “The ability to monitor hybrid environments and automatically share IronDefense threat insights across cloud and non-cloud environments to industry peers through our unique IronDome collective defense capability enhances our ability to protect companies, industries, and nations at scale.”
“IronNet has been a critical partner that has continually provided us with leading-edge cyber security solutions that help our company protect our massive cloud environments,” said Richard Puckett, former Vice President for Security Operations, Thomson Reuters. “The ability to monitor Amazon VPC traffic is a welcome new addition that will take IronNet’s network traffic analysis and collective defense capabilities to the next level, and we are pleased to team with IronNet and AWS to use the new Amazon VPC traffic mirroring capability to mitigate advanced cyber risk to our core cloud infrastructure.”
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About IronNet
Founded in 2014 by GEN (Ret.) Keith B. Alexander, the former Director of the National Security Agency and Founding Commander of U.S. Cyber Command, IronNet, Inc. is a worldwide cybersecurity leader in network traffic analysis that is revolutionizing how enterprises, industries, and governments secure their networks by delivering the first-ever collective defense platform operating at scale. IronNet combines the skills of its cybersecurity operators with their real-world experience working on both offense and defense in the public and private sectors, integrating this deep tradecraft knowledge into its industry-leading products to solve the most challenging cyber problems facing industry today.
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