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Security Detection & Forensics
One source of truth, shared by NetOps and SecOps
CHALLENGES
Investigate security alerts with immutable packet evidence.
Security teams build detection and response around logs and agents – records an attacker can disable, alter, or simply outrun. So, when an alert fires or a threat evades detection, analysts are left reconstructing incidents from whatever survived.
Without a trustworthy record of what actually crossed the wire, security investigations can stall while compliance audits are missing evidence.
Network and Security teams typically investigate from separate data sets. Instead of reconciling tools and viewpoints, what if you could feed deduplicated, filtered traffic at line rate to IDS/IPS, NDR, DLP, and forensic tools?
You can.
Packets captured off the wire are a tamper-proof record of what happened, where it happened, and when – which is essential in today’s dynamic threat environment.
Complex Networks Demand Clarity — Not Noise.
OUTCOMES
Defensible evidence for security investigations
Forensic Evidence you Can Trust and Verify
Investigate with packets captured out-of-band from the network, independent of hosts, agents, and logging configuration.
Faster Incident Response
Pull the few thousand packets behind an alert from a multi-billion-packet capture quickly, so analysts investigate instead of wait.
Wider Threat Coverage
Surface scanning, C2 beaconing, DNS abuse, and exfiltration patterns that signature-based tools can miss.
Help Your Security Tools Keep Up with Demand
Deliver filtered, deduplicated traffic to IDS, NDR, and DLP tools so they inspect what matters at line rate.
SOLUTIONS
Explore how cPacket can help you solve this challenge.
TRADITIONAL SOLUTION
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Traditional cPacket Solution
cPacket gives security teams an independent and alter-proof record of network activity that complements SIEM, IDS, and NDR tools.
cStor appliances simultaneously capture every packet and run L7 session analytics, so every alert and the packets that prove it come from the same record.
cVu packet brokers acquire traffic from optical taps, SPAN, and cloud mirroring, then filter, deduplicate, and slice it before delivering it to security tools and cStor. cStor records and indexes the traffic while generating session metrics.
When an alert fires, an analyst pulls the original packets in minutes. When a threat evades detection entirely, the retained capture is the only evidence there is.
REQUIRED PRODUCTS
KEY FEATURES
Clean Packet Delivery
cVu packet brokers deduplicate, filter, and slice traffic per port at line rate, so IDS/IPS, NDR, and DLP tools each get exactly the traffic they need.
Relevant Session Analytics
cStor analyzes DNS, TLS handshakes, LDAP, and TCP sessions without decrypting payloads, exposing certificate issues, cleartext credentials, and unusual connection behavior.
Evidence Indexed for Fast Retrieval
Finds the packets that matter by skipping blocks that don’t match – built for needle-in-a-haystack SecOps queries, not just heavy-talker pulls.
AI SOLUTION
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Right tool
cPacket AI Workflow
cPacket AI workflows turn manual threat hunts into guided investigations.
cPacket AI reasons over complete, high-fidelity packet data through purpose-built MCP servers and encoded security skills, so every finding traces back to wire evidence.
An analyst simply asks a question in their company’s approved LLM. cPacket AI queries the data, correlates DNS, TLS, and TCP activity, and explains what it found with supporting evidence. cPacket AI covers detection and analysis, while remediation decisions stay with the security team.
REQUIRED PRODUCTS
KEY FEATURES
Threat Detection Skills
Pre-built workflows detect port scanning, C2 beaconing, long-lived suspicious sessions, DNS tunneling, algorithmically generated domains, and data exfiltration patterns.
Audit-Ready Evidence
On-demand checks flag expired certificates, weak ciphers, deprecated TLS versions, cleartext LDAP, and embargoed-country traffic to support HIPAA, PCI DSS, and SOX reviews.
AI Analyzes, but Humans Act
The AI narrows the investigation and explains the findings, but the security analyst makes the call to act, maintaining operational control and accountability.
CUSTOMER TESTIMONIALS
"The integration of packet-level intelligence into our NDR platform expedited our threat investigations and gave us better data without toggling between multiple dashboards and tools."
IT Security Analyst
—Global Airline
Frequently Asked Questions
Get answers to common questions about network observability and cPacket solutions.
Do packet brokers replace SIEM, IDS, or NDR tools?
cPacket packet brokers feed security tools clean, deduplicated packet data and captures the same traffic for forensic retrieval, enhancing the existing security stack rather than replacing it.
How is packet evidence more trustworthy than logs?
Packets are captured from the network itself, external to the hosts and agents being monitored, and immutable once on the wire.
How fast can analysts retrieve packets during an investigation?
Indexing skips capture blocks that do not match the query, so sparse, needle-in-a-haystack searches across days of traffic return in seconds instead of scanning the full window.
Can NetOps and SecOps really work from the same data?
cVu packet brokers send copies of the packets to the security tools AND packet capture appliances, so both tools get the same data at the same time to use during investigations.
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