Cisco is tackling the complications associated with network security by the deployment a new self-learning, router-based solution known as the Cisco Stealthwatch Learning Network License. The Learning Network functions inside a Cisco router and is capable of discovering and learning about your network and adapting as the network and the associated evolving threats to the network are faced.
The Cisco Stealthwatch Learning Network License employs a diverse variety of machine learning algorithms on premise (the router) to model standard activities and find irregularities inside the network. This employment of machine learning signifies a disrupting method to some of the usual issues of network security and incongruity identification. Different from security contrivances of the past, this method needs no exceptional configuration or programming of rules, access control lists, and signature libraries; rather, the learning agent powered router continually learns about network activities and traffic patterns and employing cutting-edge analytics recognizes irregular traffic. New and cutting-edge techniques are employed to radically minimize the identification of benevolent irregularities via an easy to use user feedback (Like/Dislike) mechanism, resolving one of the primary issues with irregularity discovery. The Stealthwatch Learning Network License is able to rapidly learn the environment it is installed in and pinpointing pertinent irregularities with unmatched accuracy.
This Learning Network is the only solution obtainable that associates and combines machine learning with network content examination and packet-capture installed in a router to systematize branch traffic visibility, defense, and remediation. The Learning Network is software which is retailed as a smart license to the Cisco Integrated Service Router (ISR) 4000 branch-office router. It augments an adaptive component to your protection efforts, which are no longer reliant on finding threats that are already known. Rather, the learning network is focused on the relevance of irregularities; and having the ability to quickly react to modern day threat environment and Zero-Day Attacks.
Learning Network mechanisms are a learning manager and one or more than one router deployed learning agents installed at the brink of the network. A Learning Agent is virtual machine installed into a Linux Container running in memory on a Cisco ISR 4000 series router. These agents examine traffic, build models, and report irregularities in real time to the consolidated Learning Manager. You may install at the most one agent per router, and up to a maximum of 1000 agents which are able to communicate with a single manager inside your network. At the time of launch, the Cisco ISR 4451 and ISR 4431 routers are supported, with further platforms to be supported in the near future.
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