VIDEO
The benefits of Application Detection and Response (ADR)
SOC analysts are not able to detect and respond to attacks at the application layer, which is why they need a solution like Contrast ADR. It’s time to bring the application layer into the detection and response universe.
In this video, Naomi Buckwalter, Senior Director of Product Security at Contrast Security, describes the blindspot security teams are grappling with: scant visibility into the application layer. Luckily, this is a blindspot that Contrast ADR eliminates.
About Naomi:
Naomi Buckwalter, CISSP CISM, is the Senior Director of Product Security for Contrast Security and author of the LinkedIn course “Training today for tomorrow's solutions - Building the Next Generation of Cybersecurity Professionals.” She is the founder and Executive Director of Cybersecurity Gatebreakers Foundation, a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit dedicated to closing the demand gap in cybersecurity hiring. She has over 20 years' experience in IT and Security and has held roles in Software Engineering, Security Architecture, Security Engineering, and Security Executive Leadership. A dynamic speaker and mentor, her passion is helping people, particularly women, get into cybersecurity. Naomi has two Masters degrees from Villanova University and a Bachelors of Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology.
Full video transcript
When you look at logs, you've got some application logs there too, but you're not really seeing the bigger picture. Sometimes you can't even tell if network activity happening on this side of your network is correlated in any way to your applications that are happening on this side of your network. Right? Having that end-to-end understanding of network traffic and flow and understanding where data is coming and going all throughout your network.
That's so important for your security teams to understand. And finally, they're gonna have that end to end visibility of network traffic coming in and out of your organization, coming in and out of your network. That's gonna be awesome. I can't wait to see this, and it's gonna be really, really exciting for the industry.
That end-to-end visibility is really tough. You had to piece together a lot of different tools.
And the best thing about Contrast is you already immediately understand when traffic is coming into your network, where that's gonna end up, and how that network traffic flows and how that data flows within the application. And that's really kind of the beauty of it for Contrast is now operations folks don't need to put all these tools together and correlate VPC flow logs and application logs and database logs. You don't have to correlate all that because what Contrast gives you is that immediate data flow insight, where traffic is going, where it's ending up, and, like, what's coming out on the outside of that.
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