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Overview

An agentless deployment which gives visibility to layers 1 through 7 and adds AD integration, Cascade gives ultimate visibility of what's happening across the network. When added to a learned behavioural analysis and heuristics, current behaviour can be analysed for risk and difference to the norm, giving remarkable insight for operations, security and development.

Cascade provides continuous global visibility into how users, applications, hosts, and devices are behaving on your network, and tells you how their current activity differs from their typical behaviour. Because you'll always know what's happening on your network you'll be able to optimise network operations, secure your internal network, and maximise application availability, knowing:

Who's talking to whom
What applications and services are running
Where the traffic is flowing
If there are any meaningful changes that indicate a:

Network issue
Security threat
Application problem

Cascade collects this information across any, or all, of your network using a passive, agentless deployment model that delivers immediate value. The data is stored in Cascade's Network Intelligence Database, including both real-time and historical details. With this always-on, global view you'll understand:

Usage patterns
Consumption rates
Dependencies between:

Users
Applications
Network infrastructure

This dramatically reduces the time to troubleshoot network and security issues and provides critical information for accurate planning and impact analysis.

Why Cascade is Unique

Only Cascade offers all of these important benefits.

Continuous Global Visibility

Rapidly resolve issues. You'll get global visibility because Cascade combines broad coverage across any, or all, of your network with rich content to provide a holistic view of the activities, usage, and dependencies between your users, applications, and IT infrastructure. You'll also get continuous visibility because Cascade is always-on, constantly collecting the details of your network's traffic and retaining them in Cascade's Network Intelligence Database. Cascade also continually updates a moving profile of your network's typical behaviour to reflect your changing business conditions. This allows you to analyse your network behaviour from many dimensions: what's happening now? What happened before? What's changed? This unique combination of behavioural profiling with real-time monitoring and historical logging gives you the data to diagnose urgent incidents, resolve repeating problems, identify trends for effective planning, and conduct forensic analysis.

Rapid, Agentless Deployment

Fastest time-to-results. You'll deploy Cascade quickly and with very little effort, because you won't have to install any agents or inline devices. Just install the Cascade appliance on your network, and it will immediately begin collecting your flow data to give you continuous, global visibility within hours of deployment. And because Cascade can collect your flow data from a subset or across all of your network, you can start small and expand your visibility, or you can view your entire network from day one - the choice is yours.

Automatic and Custom Behaviour Analysis

Detect network and security issues before they disrupt your business. You'll use Cascade's patented behaviour analysis to determine if your current network activity is meaningfully different from its typical behaviour to warn you of a network issue, a security threat, or an application problem - before your users do. Cascade provides two types of behaviour analysis: automated heuristics supplied by Cascade that run out-of-the-box with no configuration or maintenance, so they provide immediate and on-going value with no effort. And custom policies that you define using a point-and-click interface to look for specific conditions that you want to monitor. Both types of analysis use the global behaviour profiles that Cascade automatically and continuously updates to reflect the changing nature of your network activity. Cascade's behaviour analysis provides you with a low-effort, low-noise, high-value way to ensure that your network is operating properly and securely.

Superior Integration with Networking and Security Solutions

Works with your existing environment and operations. Cascade adds value to the networking and security tools you currently have through Cascade's two-way integration with more than 30 products, including Network Management Systems, Security Incident/Event Management Systems, Identity Management solutions, Intrusion Prevention/Detection systems, Vulnerability Management products, routers, switches, and sensors. These integrations work out-of-the-box. For custom integration needs, Cascade offers a unique API that allows vendors and customers to build their own integrations. Cascade's extensive integrations allow you to add Cascade's Network Behaviour Analysis into the operational models and management systems you have today or may use tomorrow.

CASCADE FOR NETWORK SECURITY

Network Security teams use Cascade to protect critical services, data, and intellectual property.

Cascade provides continuous global visibility into how users, applications, hosts, and devices are behaving on your network, and tells you how their current activity differs from their typical behaviour. You'll optimise your network infrastructure to support your business and maximise application availability because you'll always know what's happening on your network: who's talking to whom, what applications and services are running, where the traffic is flowing, and if there are any meaningful changes that indicate a network issue, security threat, or application problem.

CASCADE FOR NETWORK OPERATIONS

Network Operations teams use Cascade to optimise network infrastructure to support the business.

Cascade provides continuous global visibility into how users, applications, hosts, and devices are behaving on your network, and tells you how their current activity differs from their typical behaviour. You'll optimise your network infrastructure to support your business and maximise application availability because you'll always know what's happening on your network: who's talking to whom, what applications and services are running, where the traffic is flowing, and if there are any meaningful changes that indicate a network issue, security threat, or application problem.