Trafficless Network Security
Trafficless Network Security is transforming how organizations approach cybersecurity by eliminating the limitations of conventional traffic monitoring. Many cybersecurity tools rely on network traffic monitoring, inspecting packets and analyzing behavior to detect anomalies. While this offers some visibility, it introduces serious drawbacks: privacy risks, compliance challenges, and major visibility gaps. More importantly, traffic-based security solutions only detect what’s already visible, leaving hidden and unmanaged threats undetected.
Network traffic monitor solutions also struggle with encrypted traffic, passive devices, and protocol-specific behaviors. Their reliance on deep packet inspection further complicates compliance efforts and consumes valuable resources.
A Trafficless Network Security approach overcomes these challenges by delivering complete asset visibility without relying on traffic inspection. By leveraging Layer 1 visibility, every network connected device, whether IT, OT, IoT, managed, or unmanaged, is accurately detected and identified. This ensures Trafficless protection that uncovers hidden risks and strengthens your cybersecurity posture.
Why Traditional Network Traffic Monitoring Falls Short
Traffic monitoring has two major limitations:
Limited Device Visibility in Network Traffic Monitor Tools
Traditional network traffic monitor tools require whitelisting known devices and maintaining updated MAC address databases. However, passive, MAC-less, and out-of-band devices remain invisible. Additionally, spoofed MAC addresses can bypass traffic based defenses, enabling rogue devices to infiltrate the network. A Trafficless Network Security approach eliminates these concerns by detecting devices without intercepting traffic monitoring data.
Traffic Monitoring vs. Compliance: A Privacy Risk
Monitoring incoming and outgoing traffic introduces privacy risks and may conflict with regulatory requirements. Organizations should not have to compromise security for compliance. A Trafficless Network Security approach resolves these concerns by enabling device detection without the need to monitor network traffic.
The Power of Trafficless Network Security Solutions
Sepio’s Trafficless Network Security approach transforms cybersecurity by using Layer one data and advanced machine learning to create a digital fingerprint for every connected device. Unlike traffic-based solutions that focus on activity, Sepio focuses on device existence, ensuring a complete and accurate asset inventory.
With this proactive and Trafficless Network Security model, organizations gain full visibility into their hardware infrastructure, blocking unauthorized devices before they pose a risk. Sepio’s solution eliminates privacy concerns by using physical layer data, bypassing the need for traffic monitoring entirely, and ensures compliance with regulatory standards.
Deployment is quick and easy. Sepio provides comprehensive hardware visibility with minimal resource requirements. The platform integrates easily with existing tools and operates without disrupting traffic or relying on a network traffic monitor.
See What You’ve Been Missing
Sepio’s trafficless CPS Protection Platform delivers the best visibility and control over known and shadow assets, automatically finding and mitigating risks at any scale, anywhere. With its patented physical-layer approach, Sepio provides objective, practical insights, helping security and IT teams to see and manage assets faster than ever before, without using network traffic monitoring.
Asset Visibility Without Network Traffic Monitoring
By using physical-layer data, Sepio identifies the true source of asset risk, going beyond conventional traffic monitoring to offer a holistic view of your asset landscape. It integrates with existing security tools, making them more effective with visibility that traditional network traffic monitor solutions cannot deliver. This enables hardware security, essential for effective risk management.
Sepio’s Asset DNA profiles every asset, IT, OT, IoT, or peripherals, even those lacking unique identifiers. Unlike solutions relying on behavioral analysis, Sepio’s patented algorithms eliminate false perceptions, delivering trusted visibility into Cyber Physical Systems (CPS). The platform is immune to false profiles and unusual events that can mislead traditional cyber tools, ensuring precise, data driven risk management.
The better visibility provided by Sepio supports NAC (Network Access Control) solutions in securing the network infrastructure by offering a more robust dataset. Sepio integrates with existing NAC implementations through the third-party REST API option without affecting the performance of the NAC solution.
As part of building a comprehensive cybersecurity posture, adopting preventive measures is critical. The NSA’s Network Infrastructure Best Practices outline the importance of network visibility and reducing reliance on reactive traffic monitoring, an approach aligned with the principles of Trafficless Network Security.
No one likes traffic. Skip it with Trafficless Network Security protection from Sepio. Schedule a demo today and secure your network with complete asset visibility.
