Live Network Mapping & Faster Risk Containment with Network Map 2.0
▼ Summary
– Zero Networks has launched Network Map 2.0, a real-time network mapping tool designed to help large enterprises reduce risk and enable immediate action.
– It replaces static visualizations with a continuously updated, living map of the entire enterprise environment, providing real-time clarity on internal communications.
– The tool addresses the challenge of limited visibility into growing internal (east-west) network traffic, which accounts for the majority of data center traffic.
– It provides a unified view across hybrid environments, highlighting privileged access, high-risk ports, and anomalous communication paths to focus on material business risk.
– Security teams can generate and simulate segmentation policies based on real traffic, and instantly visualize attack paths during incidents for faster containment.
Understanding the precise flow of communication within a modern enterprise network is no longer a luxury, it’s a critical necessity for security. Zero Networks has introduced Network Map 2.0, a significant upgrade designed to give large organizations real-time, actionable visibility into their entire hybrid environment. This tool moves beyond outdated, static diagrams to provide a continuously updated, living map that helps teams eliminate decision paralysis, reduce potential damage from breaches, and translate insight into immediate enforcement.
The core challenge for many large enterprises isn’t a shortage of data; it’s operational risk. Hybrid IT landscapes change faster than documentation can keep up, while traditional flow logs and static maps fail to reveal the crucial, real-time picture: which systems are talking to each other, which communication paths introduce vulnerability, and how far an incident could propagate. This problem is compounded by the massive growth of internal, or east-west, network traffic. Industry data indicates that as early as 2020, this internal traffic represented about 86% of total data center volume, a figure that continues to climb with the rise of AI and interconnected workloads. This is the exact area where most security teams operate with limited sight.
Network Map 2.0 directly addresses this visibility gap. It replaces delayed, point-in-time analyses with a system that continuously ingests, normalizes, and correlates live network activity. The result is an environment that is always current and immediately actionable, providing real-time clarity into lateral movements rather than retrospective reports. Security professionals gain a single, unified view across on-premises infrastructure, cloud platforms, IoT/OT devices, and Kubernetes clusters.
The platform intelligently focuses attention on what truly matters to business risk. It automatically highlights privileged access connections, high-risk open ports, systems with external exposure, and anomalous communication paths. This cuts through the noise of raw telemetry, allowing teams to prioritize the most significant threats.
Beyond visualization, the tool enables proactive defense. Teams can generate precise segmentation policies based on observed, real-time traffic patterns. They can then simulate the enforcement of these policies before rollout to ensure critical business operations are not disrupted. During an active security incident, SOC and response personnel can instantly visualize the attacker’s lateral movement paths and the potential blast radius. This enables dramatically faster quarantine and containment actions, leading to a measurable reduction in organizational exposure.
Additional capabilities provided by Network Map 2.0 empower teams to move from passive observation to active control, ensuring that network visibility consistently translates into stronger security posture and reduced business risk.
(Source: HelpNet Security)