SEATTLE: ExtraHop has announced the general availability of ExtraHop 7.0. With this release, ExtraHop introduces live activity maps for complete 3D interaction with the hybrid IT environment; enhanced threat anomalies and machine learning-initiated workflows for performance and security; and perfect forward secrecy (PFS) decryption at scale to support next-generation security architectures.
In the enterprise, slow time is the new downtime, and performance and security issues are now existential threats. Even as enterprises demand more speed, scale, and functionality, IT has lacked the visibility it needs to ensure consistent performance and security. With ExtraHop 7.0, organisations can accelerate remediation of performance and security issues by visually identifying and investigating anomalous behaviour; answer audit and compliance questions via visual representations of device communications and dependencies; monitor PFS-encrypted traffic at scale so that organisations don’t have to choose between security and visibility; and easily share relevant data and insights across multiple teams.
“IT underpins every aspect of operations, from the way employees accomplish work to the way customers interact with the organisation,” said Jesse Rothstein, CTO and co-founder, ExtraHop. “With 7.0, we’re empowering enterprise IT with the analytics, alerting, and automation required to manage performance at scale and address today’s advanced threats. When IT can know everything about the environment, they can be fearless in accelerating and securing business transformation.”
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The Industry’s Take: ExtraHop 7.0
What Customers Are Saying:
“New scheduled reports bring our most important dashboards and charts right into our inbox – this has been extremely useful in automating and surfacing information in a routine way to my team,” said Esther Go, President and CEO of MediLink Network, Inc. “They can now spend more time channeling their efforts toward analysis rather than preparing the report, which ultimately gives us better understanding of how our applications are performing and allows us to provide a better healthcare experience to all of our stakeholders.”
"For Stack Overflow, ensuring the performance of our websites and infrastructure to provide the fastest, most reliable experience for over 50 million users is paramount," said Mark Henderson, Site Reliability Engineer at Stack Overflow. "With ExtraHop 7.0, it’s easier to get the visibility we need to understand the dependencies within our environment, share these insights in a routine manner, and be more proactive in addressing potential issues before they impact our users."
"The promise of monitoring tools is in the broad visibility they provide, helping us spot performance, availability, and security issues before they impact the business,” said Scot Weeks, Applied Architecture Manager at Symetra Financial Corporation. "With the new live activity maps, ExtraHop is giving us visibility like never before. For a majority of our support engineers, the graphical representation of active connections are easier for them to relate to, allowing them to navigate from the highest level to the most granular, packet-level detail in three clicks. With ExtraHop, we’re not guessing. We know.”
What Analysts Are Saying:
“Wire data analysis is coming into the frame as the data source companies need to strengthen their detection capabilities, and ExtraHop is adding features to make its platform increasingly relevant for security and IT operations professionals,” said Rik Turner, Principal Analyst, Infrastructure Solutions at Ovum. “I particularly like the live activity maps to streamline investigations, and support for PFS in the Decryption Suite, which shows the company being proactive about new security standards.”
“The network is a powerful tool for security teams when used as a data source to detect security issues,” said Eric Ogren, Senior Analyst at 451 Research. “With its latest release, ExtraHop applies visualisation, automation, and machine learning to help organisations realise the promise of leveraging the network for enhanced security.”
"In most organisations, IT operations and security operations operate as two distinct units. The objectives of these two units are often distinct, so the alignment of processes to include network forensics as part of the security incident response is critical,” wrote Gartner analysts Sanjit Ganguli and Lawrence Orans in their November 16, 2016 report titled “Network Performance Monitoring Tools Can Play a Critical Role in Responding to Security Breaches.”
What Partners Are Saying:
“At Kedron, we’re committed to working with our customers to provide monitoring solutions and services that deliver greater operational and security intelligence and control,” said Justin Pounds, Business Development Director at KedronUK. “With its latest release, ExtraHop has taken network monitoring and analytics to the next-level, delivering visualisations and alerting that offer the kind of situational awareness and operational intelligence our customers rely on to support their IT, security, and business operations.”
“As a managed services provider specialising in monitoring, our customers rely on us to deliver consistent visibility across all of their systems, not only for performance, but for security as well,” said Gustav Van Vuuren, CTO at AppCentrix. “With the latest features in ExtraHop 7.0, our customers now have a truly multidimensional view of their environment, and the alerting and automation that keeps them ahead of threats and latencies.”
“At Ikara, we work with customers from across diverse industries, but one thing is consistent. They all want solutions that help them improve security and compliance and deliver better IT performance for their organisation,” said Reuben Bennett, Managing Partner, Ikara Group. “With new live activity maps, security anomaly alerting, and enhanced workflow automation, ExtraHop brings a new level of visibility and control across the entire IT infrastructure. It’s the kind of insight that can truly deliver proactive operations.”
“At Trace3, our customers rely on us to deliver solutions that support their most critical initiatives, including security, cloud, and IT Ops. ExtraHop is a key player in all of these,” said David Ishmael, Director of IT Operations Analytics at Trace3. "It's always on, always alerting – and not just for the things we know we need to be watching. ExtraHop sees everything and alerts customers to security and performance issues before they turn into business problems. No matter what our customers' environments look like, we can count on ExtraHop to deliver the visibility our customers need.”
“The collaboration between ExtraHop and Gigamon’s GigaSECURE® Security Delivery Platform has long delivered to joint customers the real-time insight they need for troubleshooting, capacity planning, and security monitoring,” said Ananda Rajagopal, Vice President of Products at Gigamon. “Our ability to provide pervasive visibility into data-in-motion combined with ExtraHop’s new data visualisation and security alerting capability is making it easier than ever for our customers to support digital operations by proactively managing performance and shutting down threats.”