Protocol-aware inspection
60+ protocols parsed at line rate. Zeek-grade detail without Zeek operations.
Protocol-aware inspection. Beaconing detection. Lateral movement.
Network Detection and Response captures flow and packet metadata from your VPCs, on-prem switches and remote sites. Protoxol NDR ships software sensors (no appliances) that parse over 60 protocols deep — DNS, HTTP, SSH, RDP, SMB, Kerberos and more — and write to the same event bus as EDR. Result: an analyst sees a process spawn on a host and the outbound C2 beacon as two rows of the same timeline.
60+ protocols parsed at line rate. Zeek-grade detail without Zeek operations.
Statistical jitter analysis identifies C2 beacons even with random sleep.
JA3/JA4 fingerprinting, certificate metadata, SNI analysis — without decryption.
Run as DaemonSet on Kubernetes, sidecar on ECS, or VPC mirror tap on AWS/Azure/GCP.
Cross-host graph analytics catch east-west attacks invisible to perimeter tools.
Find dwelling threats via long-tail outbound patterns, not signature matches.
Inventory every IP that talks on the network — IoT, OT, contractor laptops, shadow VMs.
DNS tunneling, abnormal volume to new destinations, suspicious upload bursts.
| Throughput | 10 Gbps per sensor instance |
| Deployment | Container, VM mirror, VPC tap |
| Encryption support | TLS 1.2/1.3 metadata + JA3/JA4 |
| Retention | Flows: 1 year, Packets: 7 days |
Network telemetry catches what endpoints miss — unmanaged devices, lateral movement, C2 beaconing. The market splits between heavy appliances and cloud-native NDR. Protoxol NDR is the second kind.
| Vendor | Strength | Tradeoff |
|---|---|---|
| Darktrace | Strong unsupervised ML. Anomaly framing. | Black-box detections. Costly tuning. |
| ExtraHop Reveal(x) | Decryption at scale. Strong forensics. | Appliance-first. Cloud story still maturing. |
| Vectra AI | AI attack signals. Good cloud coverage. | Pricing opaque. Sometimes noisy on quiet networks. |
NDR alerts auto-join EDR and email signals in real time.
Container-native sensors. Spin up in minutes.
Every detection traceable to a rule and signal.
Thirty minutes. Your environment. The modules that fit. No slideware.