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PacketViper enables precise, policy-driven control over how devices and users connect:

·         Enterprise Synchronization: Synchronizes PacketViper policies across enterprise hosts such as BSU, CMU, and RSU. This provides enterprise-wide containment and ensures simple management and policy creation.

·         Custom Rules: Limit access to and from resources by using Context Groups containing networks/IPs, businesses, countries, and ports. These rules define exactly who can access devices or groups of devices.

·         Context Groups & Access Rules: Define who or what is allowed to talk to specific destinations, ports, and services — with granular policies that include time windows, network, geographic origin, and business context.

·         Sensors: Inspect all flows for anomalies and enforce policy by blocking, alerting (SMS, email), and rate-limiting bad traffic in real time.

·         Dashboards: Provide a live view of traffic flows across IT and OT, offering operators actionable visibility into activity between devices, systems, and groups.

Dashboard for Visibility

PacketViper dashboards serve as a central hub for monitoring, managing, and optimizing network security across both IT and OT environments. They provide a comprehensive, real-time view of security posture by integrating insights from network flows, sensors, deception campaigns, and applied intelligence.

Benefits and Capabilities:

• Unified Security Visibility: Aggregates telemetry from all PacketViper deployments, enabling operators to view network activity and security events in real time, across geographies, ports, protocols, and devices.

• Adaptive Threat Monitoring: Combines packet-level insights with deception-based telemetry to detect reconnaissance, intrusion attempts, and high-risk sources through Global Network Lists (GNL) and proprietary risk scoring.

• Operational Efficiency: Presents filtered, actionable views of traffic and threat data, with one-click drill-down capabilities that reduce log volume and simplify analyst workflows.

• AMTD and Deception Management: Visualizes attacker interactions with Deceptive Responders and DR ID decoys, tracks campaign effectiveness, and allows direct adjustment of decoy placement and shifting schedules.

Example of Deceptive Responders

• Traffic Categorization and Analysis: Segments traffic flows by geography, protocol, port, or device, help pinpoint abnormal activity quickly.

• Decision Support and Applied Intelligence: Integrates applied intelligence that can be acted on instantly, correlating detections with risk scores and enabling real-time policy adjustments without disrupting legitimate traffic.

Automated Moving Target Defense (AMTD)

Our platform continuously protects enterprise boundaries against unauthorized behavior and breakout attempts:

• Monitor: PacketViper sensors can be configured in passive or preventative/alerting modes. In passive mode, they watch every boundary — internal and external — for anomalous behavior and configuration drift, and upon detection issue SMS, EMAIL, or LOG notifications. In preventative mode, when PacketViper is inline with the traffic, the sensor not only alerts but also issues a block rule to stop untrusted or unauthorized connections from communicating.

• Alert, Notify, Block: The moment suspicious activity is detected, PacketViper issues high-fidelity alerts via SMS, email, and log feeds, while instantly blocking malicious traffic.

• Rotation of Deceptive Assets: Automated deception shifts the attack surface, confusing adversaries and exposing pending threats before they can act.

• Deceptive Responders (DR): Simulate services and applications to engage unauthorized users. Any interaction with these responders is a malicious act, enabling immediate containment.

• Deceptive Responder Identity Detection (DR ID): Presents realistic login prompts (SSH, RDP, SQL, SCADA, etc.), captures credentials, blocks the source, and notifies incident response teams. This provides applied intelligence on credential misuse, insider threats, and brute-force attempts.

Capability and Benefit: These deception components provide false-positive-free alerts, collect attacker telemetry, and offer early warnings of compromise. They raise attacker costs, deliver identity insight in OT environments lacking IAM, and strengthen defenses by exposing malicious behavior before it reaches critical assets.

Lateral Movement Detection and Prevention

PacketViper secures internal east–west communications by connecting to the core switch or any managed switch, allowing it to monitor traffic flows between devices. This visibility enables PacketViper to detect and contain threats that attempt to spread across the environment: 

• Unexpected traffic detection: Monitors misconfigurations and unauthorized connections between servers, PCs, printers, or OT devices.

• Immediate containment: Suspicious behavior is logged, notified, and blocked before an attacker can pivot deeper into the network.

• Boundary break-out protection: If one device is compromised, PacketViper prevents it from traversing into new zones enterprise-wide.

OT-Ready Protection

PacketViper integrates into OT environments without disrupting sensitive processes, and provides multiple layers of protection and integration capabilities:

·         Flexible Deployment: Operates inline, in routing, or in passive mirror mode depending on operational needs.

·         Remote Security Units (RSUs): Extend protection to unmanaged, remote, and rugged sites — such as SCADA networks, pump stations, or traffic control systems — ensuring resilience even in air-gapped or low-bandwidth environments.

·         Cyber-Physical Integration: Bridges the gap between digital and physical by supporting motion detection and other physical event triggers.

·         Computer Platform Hosting: Runs or interoperates with applications such as Tenable, Claroty, or customer-specific tools to extend visibility and integrated with existing workflows.

·         SCADA Polling: Provides security event polling for integration into existing SCADA environments, enabling seamless delivery of alerts and events directly into operator systems.

Compliance and Compensating Controls

PacketViper provides measurable and auditable compensating controls that help organizations align with regulatory frameworks such as NERC CIP-015-1, NIST CSF, and other critical infrastructure standards.

Benefits and Capabilities:

·         Compensating Control Role: Functions as a documented compensating control where legacy systems cannot be patched or upgraded, reducing regulatory risk exposure.

·         Regulatory Alignment: Demonstrates proactive measures that map directly to compliance requirements for segmentation, monitoring, and access enforcement.

·         Audit Support: Generates logs, alerts, and policy reports that can be reviewed during compliance audits to validate protective measures.

·         Legacy System Protection: Provides a security wrapper around un-patchable or unsupported OT and IT systems, ensuring compliance without costly replacements.

·         Enterprise-Wide Enforcement: Ensures that compliance is consistent across BSU, CMU, and RSU deployments with synchronized policies and unified reporting.

·         Cost Avoidance and Security Stack Life Extension: By reducing load on firewalls, IDS/IPS, and SIMs, PacketViper extends the life of the existing stack while serving as a compliance-friendly control.

How PacketViper Serves as a Compensating Control

PacketViper enables organizations to meet compliance mandates even when legacy infrastructure cannot be modified or upgraded:

·         Segmentation: Enforces internal boundaries and prevents unauthorized lateral movement, directly addressing NERC CIP-015-1 requirements for electronic security perimeters.

·         Monitoring and Detection: Provides continuous monitoring and deceptive engagement, aligning with NIST requirements for anomaly detection and incident response.

·         Access Control: Delivers granular, context-based access restrictions that substitute for IAM or NAC in OT environments where those tools are impractical.

·         Containment: Stops malicious activity at wire speed, demonstrating effective preemptive defense for audit evidence.

By serving as a compensating control, PacketViper enables organizations to maintain compliance, extend the life of critical systems, and prove due diligence in protecting sensitive environments.

AlertBox — Purpose, Capabilities, and ROI

Purpose. AlertBox is the IT/OT-first nerve center that turns PacketViper’s applied intelligence into decision-quality signal for operators and executives. It consolidates cyber-physical events from RSUs and BSUs, enriches them with risk scoring, and presents only what matters—so field teams act immediately while SIEM/SOC noise and cost stay under control. In short: AlertBox converts Active Deception telemetry into action, without requiring NAC/IAM/SIEM dependencies.

Capabilities.
• Risk scoring & context: Scores sources using our Global Network Lists (GNL) plus proprietary factors (port history, country/ASN risk, traffic type), and shares enforcement intelligence enterprise wide.
• Edge-first containment visibility: Inline with PacketViper’s wire-speed blocks/blacklists, reducing downstream logging and ticketing by stopping threats at the boundary.
• Cyber-physical fusion: Ingests door-open events and HD video from PacketViper’s Cyber Physical Device for unified incident timelines across digital and physical domains.
• Compliant, real-time alerting: Delivers authenticated SMS notifications via MPA (10DLC A2P), replacing brittle, non-compliant gateways and getting the right alert to the right person, fast.

ROI & Business Impact. By eliminating unnecessary SIEM ingestion and extending the useful life of the existing security stack, AlertBox drives measurable Security Stack Life Extension (Cost Avoidance) while improving analyst focus. Customers see materially fewer alerts, lower SIEM/SOC spend, and faster time-to-signal when PacketViper blocks at the edge and AlertBox curates what’s left—outcomes our preemptive model is designed to deliver (e.g., 30–70% fewer alerts, 50–75% firewall life extension, 30%+ SIEM/SOC cost reduction, ROI inside 90 days).

Why it matters now (OT exponential growth). As traffic control, wind, power, manufacturing, and water/waste expand with unmanaged remotes and air-gapped sites, AlertBox gives rugged, autonomous RSUs a common, low-noise brain—so leaders see risk clearly, act decisively, and capture the OT growth curve with confidence

Customer Value

With PacketViper, you don’t just see what’s happening — you control it. Customers gain:

• Better security: Preemptive containment, not delayed detection.

• Better visibility: North–south and east–west traffic, across IT and OT.

• Better notifications: High-fidelity alerts, free of noise and false positives.

• Better prevention: Wire-speed blocks that stop threats before they spread.

• Better control: Fine-grained access policies using context groups and time-based rules.

• Better Reporting: Customizable cloud reporting

PacketViper transforms the network into an active defensive layer — securing every direction of traffic while reducing the workload on your existing stack.