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# Cisco Secure Network Analytics Features

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## Network Maintenance (3)

Policy Optimization

Identifies redundent processes and policies, automates changes to reduce unnecessary policy enforcement.

Risk Analysis

Identifies potential network security risks, vulnerabilities, and compliance impacts.

Auditing

Allows for deep examination into network-connected devices, policies, and protocols.

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## Network Management (4)

Network Mapping

Provides visual displays network connections, services, and endpoints.

Compliance

Supports compliance with PII, GDPR, HIPPA, PCI, and other regulatory standards.

Reporting

Documents suspicious activity within a network and provide analysis of potential threats or vulnerabilities.

Console

Provides a centralized console for administration tasks and unified control.

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## Network Monitoring (3)

Network Monitoring

Documents the actions from endpoints within a network. Alerts users of incidents and abnormal activities and documents the access point.

Configuration Monitoring

Monitors configuration rule sets and policy enforcement measures and document changes to maintain compliance.

Change Management

Tools to track and implement required network policy changes.

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## Automation (4)

Metadata Management

Indexes metadata descriptions for easier searching and enhanced insights

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

Facilitates Artificial Intelligence (AI) or Machine Learning (ML) to enable data ingestion, performance suggestions, and traffic analysis.

Response Automation

Reduces time spent remedying issues manually. Resolves common network security incidents quickly.

Continuous Analysis

Constantly monitors traffic and activity. Detects anomalies in functionality, user accessibility, traffic flows, and tampering.

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## Functionality (4)

Multi-Network Capability

Provides monitoring capabilities for multiple networks at once.

Anomaly Detection

Constantly monitors activity related to user behavior and compares activity to benchmarked patterns.

Network Visibility

Provides all-encompassing display and analysis of environments, resources, traffic, and activity across networks.

Scalability

Provides features to allow scaling for large organizations.

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## Incident Management (3)

Incident Logs

Information on each incident is stored in databases for user reference and analytics.

Incident Alerts

Gives alerts when incidents arise. Some responses may be automated, but users will still be informed.

Incident Reporting

Produces reports detailing trends and vulnerabilities related to their network and infrastructure.

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## Activity Monitoring (4)

Usage Monitoring

Tracks infrastructure resource needs and alerts administrators or automatically scales usage to minimize waste.

Database Monitoring

Monitors performance and statistics related to memory, caches and connections.

API Monitoring

Detects anomalies in functionality, user accessibility, traffic flows, and tampering.

Activity Monitoring

Actively monitors status of work stations either on-premise or remote.

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## Security (3)

Compliance Monitoring

Monitors data quality and send alerts based on violations or misuse.

Risk Analysis

Identifies potential network security risks, vulnerabilities, and compliance impacts.

Reporting

Creates reports outlining log activity and relevant metrics.

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## Administration (3)

Security Automation

Streamline the flow of work processes by establishing triggers and alerts that notify and route information to the appropriate people when their action is required within the compensation process.

Security Integration

Integrates additional security tools to automate security and incident response processes.

Multicloud Visibility

Allows users to track and control activity across cloud services and providers.

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## Analysis (4)

Incident Reporting

Produces reports detailing trends and vulnerabilities related to their network and infrastructur

Network Visibility

Provides all-encompassing display and analysis of environments, resources, traffic, and activity across networks.

Metadata Enrichment

Facilitates Artificial Intelligence (AI) such as Machine Learning (ML) to enable data ingestion, performance suggestions, and traffic analysis.

Metadata Management

Indexes metadata descriptions for easier searching and enhanced insight

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## Response (3)

Incident Alerts

Gives alerts when incidents arise. Some responses may be automated, but users will still be informed.

Response Orchestration

Integrates additional security tools to automate security and incident response processes.

Response Automation

Reduces time spent remedying issues manually. Resolves common network security incidents quickly

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## Detection (3)

Multi-Network Monitoring

Provides monitoring capabilities for multiple networks at once.

Asset Discovery

Detect new assets as they enter a network and add them to asset inventory.

Anomaly Detection

Constantly monitors activity related to user behavior and compares activity to benchmarked patterns

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## Configuration (5)

DLP Configuration

Offers data loss prevention tools to protect data from leaving the environments it is allowed to.

Configuration Monitoring

Monitors configuration rule sets and policy enforcement measures and document changes to maintain compliance.

Unified Policy Management

Allows users to track and control security policies across cloud services and providers.

Adaptive Access Control

Provides a risk-based approach to determining trust within the network.

API / Integrations

Application Programming Interface - Specification for how the application communicates with other software. API's typically enable integration of data, logic, objects, etc. with other software applications.

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## Visibility (2)

Multicloud Visibility

Provides all-encompassing display and analysis of environments, resources, traffic, and activity across networks.

Asset Discovery

Detect new assets as they enter a cloud environments and networks to add to asset inventory.

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## Vulnerability Management (4)

Threat Hunting

Facilitates the proactive search for emerging threats as they target servers, endpoints, and networks.

Vulnerability Scanning

Analyzes your existing cloud, network, and IT infrastructure to outline access points that can be easily compromised.

Vulnerability Intelligence

Stores information related to new and common vulnerabilities and how to resolve them once incidents occur.

Risk-Prioritization

Allows for vulnerability ranking by customized risk and threat priorities.

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## Agentic AI - Cloud Security Monitoring and Analytics (3)

Autonomous Task Execution

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Proactive Assistance

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Decision Making

Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives

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## Services - Network Detection and Response (NDR) (1)

Managed Services

Offers managed network detection and response services.

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