Cybersecurity teams have been protecting their networks with alert and response procedures for 20 years. Meanwhile, networks and applications continue to evolve, and so do the methods hackers use to access and steal sensitive data. So why is the cybersecurity industry still operating like it’s 2005?
Outdated threat detection, investigation, and response (TDIR) approaches and antiquated network security tools like firewalls and intrusion prevention systems are easily evaded, only protect against identified threats, and are not capable of detecting changing adversary tools or tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs).
These technologies are part of the cybersecurity ecosystem of the past. Trinity Cyber invented Full Content Inspection (FCI) to defeat hacker tools and TTPs inline. FCI prevents attacks before they happen instead of responding to them after the fact, shifting the balance of power to data defenders for the first time in network security history.
What is Full Content Inspection?
Full Content Inspection detects and prevents cyber threats inline, in real time. The fully managed service by Trinity Cyber is deployed at the network gateway, the shield standing between users and threats. Once deployed, FCI exposes and mitigates cyber threats with extreme precision and at massive scale by opening, fully inspecting, and editing malicious content out of live network traffic. That’s not just smoke and mirrors trying to sell you a faster detection tool. In its Emerging Tech: Techscape for Startups in Security Software report, Gartner called full content inspection and analysis a “more proactive TDIR approach.” The automated, inline capability by Trinity Cyber truly prevents hacking attempts by establishing hyper-precise, highly accurate countermeasures that neutralize threats before they become incidents.
FCI detects and stops every common vulnerability and exposure on the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s Known Exploited Vulnerability list including phishing, privilege escalation, stenography, command injection, and authentication bypass.
How does FCI work?
At Trinity Cyber, our goal for cybersecurity teams is simple: react less, stop more. Full Content Inspection achieves that goal by deeply interrogating the content of every network session from the transport layer to the application layer. FCI combs request and response bodies, exposing more than 3,400 fields of data and their ancestral relationships including protocol fields, files, and objects within files, such as pictures and file systems. Once exposed, FCI applies search formulas with the ability to determine relationships among and between objects to find the actual presence of hacker tactics, malware, and remote code exploits. Then, the managed service by Trinity Cyber takes action, disrupting the adversary’s intent before exposed content enters or leaves your network.
Trinity Cyber’s FCI capability is deployed in a massive private cloud footprint across North America and Australia to provide centrally managed collective defense against hacker tools and TTPs. Once developed and deployed throughout all user traffic, Trinity Cyber’s countermeasures act as immediate patches for emerging threats, derailing hackers quickly and at massive scale. For example, Trinity Cyber deployed a countermeasure to the Log4j server vulnerability four hours after it was posted to GitHub that has detected and prevented millions of exploit attempts at the network boundary to this day without missing a single one.
FCI can be used instead of, or in addition to, your current, outdated network security controls. FCI technology replaces
next-generation firewalls (NGFWs), secure web gateways (SWGs), intrusion prevention systems (IPS), browser isolation and sandboxing tools, web application firewalls (WAF), data loss prevention tools, and decryption tools.
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What are FCI’s advantages over traditional network security tools?
Trinity Cyber’s Full Content Inspection model moves from a reactive detect, alert, and respond cybersecurity model reliant on indicators of compromise (IOCs) to a proactive model that removes threats from live traffic before they enter or leave your organization. FCI is not packet inspection or byte manipulation. It is a new kind of network security capability that operates independently of IOCs to take the advantage away from the hacker and give it back to the defender.
While the rest of the cybersecurity industry is playing a daunting and unscalable game of Whack-a-Mole by blocking known threats and waiting for new alerts, FCI disrupts hackers and adversaries by targeting the unique tools and methods they employ. It can remove threats from entire hacker groups and is not easily evaded.
Trinity Cyber’s automatic, preventive FCI is not only more effective, but it also reduces risk and alert fatigue to save you time and money. It is the clear future of network security compared to antiquated SWG, IPS, and WAF capabilities which are easily evaded, prone to false positives, feed a costly system of alert management and incident response, and don’t actually prevent hacks. FCI detects and stops exploit campaigns, scareware pop-up phishing attempts, and credential stealing malware while reducing false positives below one percent. Comparatively, SWGs, IPSs, and WAFs average false positive rates over 30 percent. And FCI does it all with less than a millisecond latency and an accuracy rate greater than 99.99 percent.
Interested in learning more about FCI?
Trinity Cyber’s Full Content Inspection capability is offered as a managed service. For more information on how Trinity Cyber and FCI can help increase the efficacy and efficiency of your cybersecurity strategy, explore our resource library or schedule a live demo today!