RevealX NDR

Detects employee and workload use of unsanctioned AI services, agents, and Model Context Protocol connections from network traffic, and exposes which assets are sending data to which AI endpoints, so shadow AI use and risky agent-to-tool traffic are visible without endpoint agents.

Captures and retains full packets (PCAP) at scale alongside flow and metadata records, with long-term retention and session reconstruction or replay, so analysts can pivot from an alert to the exact underlying packets and run retroactive investigations against historical traffic. Metadata-only products that retain no packets do not qualify.

Runs traditional detection alongside behavioral analytics: intrusion-detection signatures (Suricata or Zeek rule sets and vendor IPS signatures), rule-based heuristics, and threshold alerts, with support for importing community rules and authoring custom rules, so known exploits and indicators are caught deterministically and analysts can codify their own detections.

Assigns a risk score to each detection and affected entity from threat severity, detection certainty, and asset or account importance, with adjustable scoring, so response effort goes to the highest-risk hosts and accounts first rather than to the newest alert.

Attributes network activity and detections to users and accounts by ingesting identity provider, directory, and SSE or SASE telemetry, correlating network anomalies with user behavior and distinguishing on-premises users from remote workers, so lateral movement and insider activity are traced to an identity rather than only to an IP address.

Discovers every device communicating on the network and assembles a continuously updated inventory with device type, role, protocols in use, and communication paths, grouping and tracking entities across address changes (for example through a knowledge graph) and tagging criticality and exposure, so risk scoring and investigations start from an accurate map of what is on the network.

Discovers and inventories cyber-physical system assets (OT, ICS, IoT, and medical devices) and their communication channels from the same sensors that monitor IT traffic, baselines normal CPS activity and alerts on deviations, and parses industrial protocols (Modbus, DNP3, EtherNet/IP, PROFINET, IEC 61850, OPC UA) for deep inspection, so IT and CPS attacks are detected and correlated in one NDR console. Protocol depth and CPS asset detail vary widely across NDR products.

Executes containment automatically on confirmed detections: isolating infected hosts, blocking malicious traffic, or disabling compromised accounts, either natively (for example through the vendor's own switches, firewalls, or inline sensors) or through integrations with firewalls, NAC, EDR, SASE or SSE, and SOAR platforms. Whether enforcement is native or integration-dependent is the primary buying distinction.

Provides a natural-language search assistant over network metadata, detections, and entities, so analysts can ask hunting questions in plain language, receive generated queries and summarized results, and pivot across hosts, accounts, and sessions without writing query syntax. Distinct from AI-assisted triage, which qualifies detections rather than answering analyst queries.

Aggregates related network alerts into structured incidents that link the hosts, accounts, and detections of one attack, reducing alert volume and giving analysts one case to investigate and respond to instead of disconnected events.

Matches observed traffic against continuously updated threat-intelligence feeds, both the vendor's global intelligence and customer-imported internal or third-party feeds, to recognize malicious infrastructure, command-and-control patterns, and known indicators, and enriches detections with the matching intelligence context.

Detects threats inside TLS-encrypted sessions either without decryption, through JA3, JA4, and certificate fingerprinting plus behavioral analysis of encrypted flows, or through on-appliance decryption where keys are available for full payload inspection. Fingerprint-only analysis is now standard across NDR; on-appliance decryption, JA4 support, and detection quality on encrypted command-and-control are the differentiators.

Parses raw traffic with deep packet inspection into structured, protocol-level metadata records, such as Zeek-style connection, DNS, HTTP, and TLS logs, and enriches them at collection or analysis time with asset, user, geolocation, and threat-intelligence context, producing hunt-ready evidence that is retained far longer than packets and exportable to a SIEM or data lake.

Learns per-entity baselines of normal network behavior for devices, users, and applications, typically with unsupervised or self-learning models that need little manual tuning, and detects deviations that reveal insider threats, external attacks, and advanced persistent threats, including novel command-and-control, data staging, and lateral movement. Detection quality separates products: self-learning models with minimal tuning versus rule-primary engines with limited machine learning.

Extends network detection to cloud VPC traffic using VPC flow log analysis, cloud-native sensors, or mirroring, covering east-west traffic between cloud workloads.