Why Identifying Lateral Movement is Challenging
Lack of Visibility
While good products are on the market focused on specific aspects of your environment, they lack the situational awareness you need to see attackers as they move from one asset to another.
Time Delays
Attackers are patient. Once they penetrate your environment, they are keen to wait for days, weeks, or even months before taking their next step, hoping the security in place will not detect their movement. Without continuous analysis of network activity, security teams will eventually deal with an active attack rather than stop it from occurring.
Unreliable Automation
Even if a security team can identify an attacker traversing the network without reliable response automation, they will take manual response actions, giving attackers time to attempt to evade eradication.
How to Detect and Defeat Lateral Movement
A multi-layer security approach gives your team the best chance to detect and eradicate attackers moving laterally across your network.
Endpoint
Protection
Attackers typically target endpoints as their point of entry so your security team must monitor and capture critical data from all endpoints for analysis.
Next-Gen
Firewall
An indicator that an attacker is moving freely across your network can come from a Next-Gen firewall capable of identifying connections from the network to suspicious external IP addresses. When analyzed in context, that data can be essential to identify lateral movement.
Network
Protection
To traverse your environment, attackers will be moving across your network, thus, reliable network protection, such as an NDR solution, must be included in your security stack.
Vulnerability Management
When an attacker moves laterally across your network, they look for exploitable weaknesses in your assets and application stack. Vulnerability management tools give you the visibility to keep your machines and apps patched appropriately.
Security
Analytics
Security Analytics allows you to detect potential signs of attacher lateral movement when actively monitoring and correlating user and entity behaviors and flagging suspicious activities.
Automated
Response
With the previous protection layers in place, you need a way to respond to a detected threat at scale quickly. An automated response product like SOAR can be the difference between thwarting an attacker early and a wide-scale breach.
How Stellar Cyber Can Help
Stellar Cyber delivers over 400 integrations out-of-the-box, including integrations to popular endpoint protection, next-gen firewalls, and vulnerability management products you use. The choice of which of these products to use is up to you. You maintain control.
Stellar Cyber also provides network protection, security analytics, and automated response capabilities to detect lateral movement across your IT and OT environments.
Key Features
Ultra-Flexible Data Sources
Using pre-built integrations, incorporate data from any existing security control, IT, and productivity tool.
Normalize and Enrich Data
Automatically normalize and enrich data with context, enabling comprehensive, scalable data analysis.
Automated Threat Hunting
Create customized threat hunts that can be run ad-hoc or on a set schedule.
Advanced Threat Detection
Identify complex threats using AI threat models and curated threat detection rules.
AI-Driven Security Analytics
Combining seemingly disparate alerts into incidents provides security analysts with contextualized and prioritized threats to investigate.
Repeatable Incident Response
Take decisive response actions manually or enable Stellar Cyber to automate response fully.
Meet Your Lateral Movement Challenge with Stellar Cyber
Stop Chasing Alerts
Investigate incidents, not alerts
See significant efficiency gains
Improve Security
Outcomes
Find hidden threats early
Eliminate constant firefighting
Save Time
and Money
Optimize security stack
Improve team productivity