PacketViper IT360 White Paper

PacketViper IT360 White Paper

IT360™ by PacketViper: Active, Autonomous Defense for IT Environments 

Overview 

PacketViper IT360™ represents a paradigm shift in how cyber threats are handled in enterprise and cloud environments. Traditional solutions overwhelm security teams with alerts and provide limited visibility, containment, or real-time control. IT360™ is an autonomous and active containment platform that introduces identity deception and dynamic threat response without reliance on Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) or cloud connectivity. 

Cyber Threats Today 

The volume, speed, and complexity of today’s cyber threats continue to accelerate. While many organizations focus on improving monitoring, threat intelligence, and alerting through tools like SIEM, few have real containment capabilities or active engagement systems. The result: alert fatigue, overwhelmed analysts, and longer dwell times for attackers. 

Security teams are flooded with Critical Security Events (CSE) they cannot process in time. They rely on reactive tools and often miss lateral movement or insider threats until it's too late. These challenges are compounded in remote, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments where blind spots abound. 

The Traditional Security Stack Falls Short 

Modern IT architectures are flat, overexposed, and under-segmented. Traditional firewalls, Network Operation Center (NOC) methods, and perimeter-based security strategies struggle to detect and stop lateral movement. Existing platforms require significant manual intervention, are heavily alert-dependent, and often rely on external intelligence or cloud infrastructure to function. 

PacketViper IT360: Containment Without Complexity 

PacketViper IT360 introduces a new model of cyber defense by using deception, dynamic identity control, and inline, autonomous containment. The system is designed to operate in air-gapped, cloud-denied, and highly distributed environments without sacrificing performance or requiring third-party analytics. 

Key capabilities include: - Autonomous Threat Containment: No human-in-the-loop required. Once a threat is identified, enforcement occurs immediately and without outside systems. - Deceptive Responder Identity Detection (DRID): Decoys are deployed across the network using deceptive identities like Program Logic Control (PLC), Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), and Secure Shell (SSH). Any unauthorized attempt to access these triggers containment workflows. - No Dependence on SIEM: PacketViper does not require integration with Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems to operate, allowing for real time containment with minimal infrastructure dependencies. - Interrogation Technology: Adaptive interrogation allows PacketViper to probe and profile threats as they interact with deceptive assets, gathering intelligence and adjusting policies dynamically. - Zero Trust Enforcement: IT360™ complements Identify Access Management (IAM) and Zero Trust strategies by enforcing containment at the network layer. 

Architecture and Integration 

PacketViper IT360 is platform-agnostic, integrating with existing network switches and hardware at Layer 2 without requiring changes to network architecture or agents on endpoints. It supports integration with:

  1. Cloud and hybrid environments - On-premise data centers - Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) or Program Logic Control (PLC) networks 
  2. IT360™ uses dynamic deception and behavioral telemetry to reduce false positives and act decisively when malicious behavior is detected. Containment happens in real-time, locally and autonomously. 

Use Cases 1. Cloud Workload Defense: Protect workloads in AWS, Azure, and private clouds without relying on external analytics or complex segmentation. 2. Insider Threat Defense: Identify lateral movement from internal users or compromised credentials with deceptive traps and immediate containment. 3. VPN and Remote Access: Stop credential stuffing, unauthorized access, and reconnaissance over remote tunnels using DRID and adaptive deception. 4. Supply Chain Risk Mitigation: Use deceptive assets to detect unauthorized access by third-party vendors and prevent pivoting attacks. 

Benefits to the Mission - Decreases Alert Fatigue: Focuses on action instead of noisy alerts. - Rapid Containment: Threats are isolated and neutralized without external dependencies. - Infrastructure Light: Operates without reliance on cloud, firewall, or SIEM platforms. - Aligned with Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Best Practices: Supports Zero Trust Architecture and resilience strategies. 

Conclusion 

IT360™ by PacketViper redefines what’s possible in IT defense. With its agentless architecture, inline containment, and autonomous workflows, it empowers organizations to move from passive alerting to active, real-time cyber defense.