Proactively Secure Agency Networks With Nipper Enterprise

Now, more than ever, the public sector is being targeted by sophisticated cyberattacks. So public sector teams need to be able to assure the fundamental security of their networks. Configuring infrastructure devices securely plays a foundational role in achieving the operational resilience and readiness to defend against such attacks. It is therefore vital that teams tasked with achieving network resilience, have visibility of:

• Overall network and segment-by-segment attack surface posture;
• Exposure to specific ATT&CK tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs), resulting from device misconfigurations and software vulnerabilities;
• Exploitable vulnerabilities introduced by planned and/or unauthorized network changes; and
• Indicators of compromise, including macro segmentation violations (unapproved IPs, ports and users).

This is where Nipper Enterprise plays a crucial role in the public sector tech stack. Designed to give teams an automated inside-out view of network resilience and readiness, the solution enables risk-prioritized remediation to eliminate attack vectors that pose real-world threats to the organization.

Complementing end point and server-centric solutions, Nipper Enterprise provides accurate, enterprise-wide vulnerability and misconfiguration visibility for routers, switches, and firewalls – proactively, and at scale. Providing scheduled posture assessments, or near-real time exposure monitoring, depending on the security-maturity of the organization, SOC, NOC, and threat hunters use the solution to continually minimize the attack surface whilst proactively shutting-down critical risks, to minimize network exposure.

The solution automatically risk-prioritizes misconfigurations and software vulnerabilities, according to risk of exploit, as advocated by advocated by U.S. Cybercommand’s cornerstone Cyber Operational Readiness Assessment (CORA) program.

Using the eyeExtend Connect integration for Nipper Enterprise combines Forescout’s enterprise-wide device visibility and automated incident response capabilities with Nipper Enterprise’s proactive configuration analysis, giving NOC and SOC teams the capability to risk-prioritize remediation and response. This ensures that business-critical systems remain ready for and resilient to cyber incidents as well as compliant with zero trust programs and operational resilience standards, such as DoD C2C and CORA, as well as EU DORA and NIS2.