Vendor-Neutral Network Visibility for Cybersecurity Tools

Your Cybersecurity Strategy Starts Here

Every enterprise needs cybersecurity, but many struggle with choosing, integrating and optimising the right solutions. The challenge?

Vendor Lock-In – Changing or testing cybersecurity tools is difficult when infrastructure depends on a single vendor.

Cost Overruns – Cybersecurity tools need network data to detect malicious traffic, but when the tools receive more network traffic it creates more security tool costs, leading to expensive licensing and performance issues.

Difficult tool comparison – Setting testing environment is not simple thus comparison of solutions before the decision is hard to achieve

Cubro is not a cybersecurity tool vendor. We enable the tools to run efficiently in terms of performance and cost by providing a vendor-neutral network visibility layer that helps businesses.

Stay Vendor Agnostic & Future Proof – With Cubro, enterprises can switch cybersecurity tools easily without redesigning their infrastructure. This ensures long-term flexibility and cost savings.

Run Multiple Security Tools in Parallel – Cubro allows companies to feed the same traffic to different security tools simultaneously, making it possible to compare vendor solutions head-to-head.

Optimise Cybersecurity Costs – Security tools charge based on bandwidth and function. Cubro filters and optimises network traffic, reducing false positives and ensuring that tools analyse only the most relevant data. This leads to lower licensing and operational costs from day one.

Improve Performance & Response Time – By reducing unnecessary data processing, Cubro helps security tools work faster and more efficiently, ensuring threats are detected and mitigated in real-time.

Why network visibility matters for cybersecurity?

Higher ROI – A single investment in Cubro can reduce long-term cybersecurity expenses by cutting licensing, bandwidth, and maintenance costs.

Better Security Outcomes – Security tools perform better when they receive only relevant traffic, improving overall threat detection and response.

More Strategic IT Investments – Instead of overspending on bigger security tool licenses, companies can allocate budgets more effectively.

By providing an independent network visibility layer, Cubro gives enterprises greater control over their cybersecurity strategy, ensuring scalability, flexibility, and cost savings without compromising security.

Ebook Introduction

How Network Visibility Empowers Enterprise Security

Since enterprises have started to use the cloud more extensively, the network environments have become more challenging to monitor and protect. Traditional tools often struggle to keep up with this scale and complexity, leading to inconsistent visibility and potential blind spots.

What is Cybersecurity Monitoring?

Cybersecurity monitoring is the automated process of collecting and analyzing indicators of potential security threats and triaging them with appropriate action.

Security operations teams have an ever-increasing amount of work and responsibility in maintaining the overall health, performance, and security of a business’ infrastructure as technologies evolve, complexity increases, and enterprise networks continue to grow.

The High Cost of Data Breaches

Today cybersecurity monitoring is part of a company’s compliance and regulatory requirements. Data breaches can be costly in many ways: ransom cost, fines and compensations, bad publicity, lower brand value and paused operations preventing business activities. Some of these can have a long-lasting impact on the company, including lowered stock value.

Network cybersecurity monitoring’s core objective is to minimise downtime by preventing attacks and preserving data to keep an organization operational. By combining attack and passive security monitoring and automating the processes as much as possible, organizations can protect themselves from network threats and identify attackers.

Common Cybersecurity Pain Points in Large Enterprises

Several tools are on the market for security departments or security operations centres (SOC). SOC is the team and infrastructure responsible for managing an organization’s security posture, leveraging tools like SIEM and SOAR. Security information and event management (SIEM) collects and analyzes security data, identifying potential threats. Security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR) automates and orchestrates responses to security incidents, improving SOC efficiency.

Network detection and response (NDR) refers to a category of network security products that detect abnormal system behaviours by continuously analyzing network traffic. Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) is used for unusual activity on system endpoints, including computers, phones, and servers.

Together, network and security monitoring provide comprehensive information, analysis, and reports. The aim is to automate these functions as much as possible.

Enable both network operations and network security staff to collect, filter, and refine their investigations to identify problems

Deploy active testing tools to test vital network functions

Determine if the event is a normal network or malicious/disruptive activity

Allow automation and standardized trouble ticketing processes

Provide continuous, real-time, and reliable data gathering for extracting crucial information about the health and security posture of the network

Automation tools and particularly agentic AI help in making these tasks easier.

Finding the Right Balance

On the one hand, it is tempting to choose the best of breed tools to create a best of industry service operation centre, but integrating
them always comes with a cost. On the other hand, one vendor solution minimises the integration costs, but the risk of vendor lock-in is not appealing. Often, one vendor solution is criticised for its limited agility. Network Packet Brokers increase flexibility by providing the option of sending the same or filtered traffic to several destinations. This enables using tools in parallel, for example, when testing and comparing tools to each other or when having tools for specific purposes.

Regardless of what kind of solution is chosen, cost monitoring is essential. The cost overruns are due to licensing, bandwidth charges, and inefficient use of tools. The number of servers often has an impact on the licensing fees and sometimes upgrading the HW and reducing the number of servers can create substantial savings. Bandwidth and efficient use of the tools can be favorably improved by using TAP and NPB solutions.

Another area where TAP and NPB are helping is traffic reduction and filtering to choose only relevant traffic to remove performance bottlenecks. Security tools may require continuous HW and licence upgrades with increasing traffic.

In either case, it is important to have all necessary data for the tools.

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