How to Build Network Visibility in the Age of AI

AI is everywhere. As much as we continue to be amazed by the positive impact it has had on our lives, it didn’t take long to realize how it can also be employed in malicious ways. Threat actors use it to turbocharge modern cyberattacks, creating countless variations of realistic phishing emails, and developing more sophisticated malware that is highly difficult to detect.

To combat these modern threats, enterprise defenders need AI-powered network visibility that can quickly detect and help mitigate cyberattacks before they can create havoc and do irreparable harm.

Keysight AI-Powered turns NPBs into Insight Brokers

We are excited to partner with Keysight Technologies and incorporate their AI-powered network visibility tools into our cybersecurity solution offerings. Keysight’s innovative Vision Insight Broker (TM) is a memory- and storage-enhanced network packet broker (NPB) that processes data at the network edge: sorting, filtering, and delivering the right network traffic to the right tools. This helps enterprise IT and security operations (SecOps) teams maintain a powerful speed and agility advantage — one that works to reduce risk, cost, and time to act — at scale.

Flexible Integration Models Streamline Deployment

This new class of network packet broker features two flexible options for leveraging AI as part of your cybersecurity defense strategy:

  • Keysight’s AI Stack software provides anomaly detection, dynamic application signature identification, and predictive analytics. AI Stack allows more processing to happen at the edge of the network and helps optimize cloud utilization.
  • AppFusion third-party integrations speed deployment of multi-vendor visibility and monitoring infrastructures. Organizations can integrate AI-led monitoring from Keysight alliance partners like Forescout and ExtraHop to reduce hardware requirements and operational costs.

Industry Analysts Confirm the Advantages of AI-powered Cybersecurity

Research conducted by the Ponemon Institute for the IBM Cost of a Data Breach 2024 report illustrates how AI helps enterprises to prevent, investigate, and shut down cyber threats faster. Organizations that use AI and automation extensively for security were able to identify and contain breaches nearly 100 days faster than other companies. Extensive use of AI also shortened the average time taken to identify and contain threats by 33% and 43% respectively.

Jon Fox, CNI Systems Engineer, sees great promise in this solution as cybercrime continues to become more prevalent and sophisticated. “This is such a great application for AI – ingesting massive amounts of network data and quickly adding the context needed to make decisions. AI models are well-suited for complex tasks like anomaly detection, and the savings in threat detection and response times will be worth the investment.”

For more information on Keysight’s AI-powered Vision Insight Brokers, contact your CNI representative today.

About CNI Sales, Inc.
CNI Sales is a family-owned, greater Philadelphia-based networking and security provider serving customers throughout the U.S. Through valued partnerships with leading and innovative vendors, CNI provides expert services delivered with no hassle. Operating by the golden rule for 30 years has allowed business to continue to grow with some of the top large enterprises in the country, covering the healthcare, education, government, and commercial industries. CNI specializes in network infrastructure, network security, data storage, and cloud. The company’s mission is to create seamless IT solutions tailored to any unique business needs so its customers can experience peace of mind knowing their data is protected and their network is reliable. We get IT. For more information, fill out our contact form at http://www.cnisalesinc.com/contact-us/.

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