Q2- June 2024 Arista Security Newsletter

Arista NDR + MISA Integration

Attackers today look to infiltrate your network without your knowledge. Traditional security tools aren’t sufficient to monitor for threats that avoid malware and abuse unmanaged devices such as IoT. Security analysts need better visibility across wired, wireless, and cloud infrastructure to make intelligent risk management decisions. Find out how Microsoft's cloud-native SIEM solution and Arista Networks advanced NDR platform use artificial intelligence and human expertise to solve the problem in this e-book:

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Arista Security Enables Enterprises To Build

Secure, Connected Workspaces

Arista Networks Cognitive campus switches deliver effective detection and response to threats across campuses without the need for additional hardware deployments or security expertise.

Enabling Self-Diagnostic Networks with CV UNOTM

(CloudVision® Universal Network Observability™)

As part of its CloudVision platform, Arista introduces "Universal Network Observability, " a novel network observability solution Arista CloudVision UNO (CV UNO) automates network, system, and application/workload visibility with AI-driven proactive analysis, reducing human error, accelerating issue resolution, and identifying root causes of network events.

This cutting-edge platform offers unmatched insight into application performance across multiple data centers Seamlessly integrating application visibility with CloudVision's robust network telemetry base empowers you with an enhanced level of control and understanding

Read more about the solution here

CV UNOTM Key Feature Highlights

Available as a premium feature set on Arista CloudVision as-a-Service (CVaaS), CV UNO leverages one or more CV UNO Sensor VMs, strategically deployed on-premises to collect, normalize, and meticulously curate flow/SNMP data from diverse sources such as physical/virtual compute and third-party network devices Watch the video to learn more:

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● Private cloud visibility, leveraging API integration with VMware vCenter to augment application, flow and event information into NetDL data as well as application discovery workflows to discover and classify applications

● Application Dashboard page, that shows all the applications, application health, performance, services, critical events, top bandwidth consumers and more, Read more…

Events 2024

HIMSS 2024 Speaking Session

By Jason Bevis:

Topic: Arista NDR: Safeguarding Healthcare in the Age of AI: Give Analysts Superpowers

Arista At RSAC 2024

This year at RSA Conference 2024, we were thrilled to showcase our innovative security solutions and show how “We Do Security.” We highlighted our latest network segmentation capability along with our Network Detection & Response, Secure Campus Networks, and Network Access Control capabilities.

Jason Bevis highlights artificial intelligence concepts and discusses concrete examples of how security programs incorporate AI to build more robust defenses, boost efficiency, and address emerging threats proactively.

Upcoming Events

Black Hat USA 2024

Article on the Spot

Pause - Revisit the Fundamentals - Network Observability

- Chris Kane

In order to assist infrastructure teams in gaining clarity, the Arista Security team utilized a coarse method to gain observability by monitoring traffic and diving into detailed packet captures. Read the article to learn more

Unintended Data Exfiltration via Online Document Conversion Sites

- Ian Shepherd

Online file conversion tools can be a vector for data exfiltration and should be monitored for policy violations. This article here explains how Arista's Awake Labs team hunts for the activity. Read the article to learn more..

CASE STUDY

Contractor Using Security Cameras to Spy

Multiple cameras were affected by malicious activity, including those in data centers and secure facilities for managing critical infrastructure The team found that nearly all of their cameras were poorly configured, allowing attackers easy access. Identifying this part of the customer's attack surface was essential because they are a long-term nation-state target.

What would typically be a lengthy detection and investigation process, is completed in minutes with Arista NDR.You can learn more about how Arista NDR identified this threat by downloading the case study

SCHEDULE A DEMO: Bridging the gap between network and security

Arista’s zero trust security portfolio eliminates the need for several network monitoring or security tools by delivering a unified architecture that provides real-time visibility to the threat posture across the network with the ability to take immediate action

See how Arista’s security solutions can help accelerate your zero trust journey with a short to-the-point demo. Schedule a demo here >>

Experiencing a security breach? Arista's Awake Labs team can help-

RESOLVE AN INCIDENT

Awake Labs experts bring hundreds of years of incident response experience to bear, helping you respond effectively to attacks targeting your infrastructure, whether on-premise, in the cloud or Internet-of-Things and Operational Technology networks Read more

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