Infoblox unveils simplified platform to secure borderless networks

Infoblox has announced BloxOne Threat Defense, a hybrid security offering that leverages DNS as the first line of defense to detect and block today’s sophisticated cyber threats.

According to the company, with a scalable hybrid architecture, BloxOne Threat Defense secures enterprises’ existing networks as well as digital transformations like cloud, IoT and SD-WAN deployments. It makes an organisation’s threat analysts more productive and reduces the total cost of enterprise threat defense.

The BloxOne Threat Defense solution combines the best of Infoblox’s on-prem (ActiveTrust) and cloud-based (ActiveTrust Cloud) security solutions into a unique integrated hybrid offering that provides enterprises scale, flexibility, and reliability. This enhanced solution reduces incident response time by providing actionable intelligence to the organisation’s security stack, including SOAR (Security Orchestration Automation and Response), and by automating action using extensive ecosystem integrations.

Despite organisations utilising multiple security tools in their stack, only a minimal number of alerts (about 4%) are investigated because they are short staffed.

According to the Ponemon Institute, data breaches can take enterprises an average of 196 days to identify, resulting in a loss of $3.6 million per year and impacting brand reputation. Everyday CISOs are challenged to do more with less, simplify their security architecture, improve compliance and ensure protection for their data.

BloxOne Threat Defense, according to Infoblox, presents a hybrid deployment that ensures enterprise networks will be protected at anytime, anywhere, leveraging the infrastructure organisations already own – DNS.

The solution uses highly accurate threat intelligence and machine learning based analytics to detect modern malware, ransomware, phishing, exploit kits, DNS-based data exfiltration, Domain Generation Algorithms, DNS Messenger, fast-flux attacks and more. In addition, the hybrid approach allows organisations to use the cloud to detect more threats, while providing deep visibility and full integration with the on-premises ecosystem. It also provides resiliency and redundancy.

“The traditional security model is inadequate for today’s borderless networks, especially as enterprises continue to adopt digital transformation technologies like SD WAN, IoT, and cloud,” said Kanaiya Vasani, executive vice president of products and corporate development, Infoblox. “With BloxOne Threat Defense, Infoblox is providing customers with a solution that protects everywhere, offers flexible deployment, and integrates with the security stack already in place, providing a more optimised and streamlined cybersecurity posture. Organisations can worry less about silos created by managing multiple security solutions and instead make their security stack work as one fabric.”