See What’s Moving East-West Inside Your Network
In modern federal networks, the greatest risk often comes not from what enters or exits, but from what moves inside. Once adversaries breach a single point, they rely on east-west lateral movement to escalate privileges, exfiltrate data, or disable mission systems.
Traditional monitoring approaches, such as TAPs or span ports, were designed to focus on north-south traffic — the flows in and out of the network perimeter. But in today’s distributed, cloud-hybrid, and segmented environments, this approach leaves a massive blind spot. Where would agencies put TAPs? How could agencies afford to install and maintain them at every east-west junction? Even if deployed, TAPs rarely illuminate the lateral flows that matter most. Federal agencies need a new model for visibility inside the network.
Gain East-West Visibility Without TAPs
Agencies operate hybrid environments connecting mission sites, data centers, and cloud workloads. If agencies have a SOC, they tend to have solid visibility into perimeter traffic, but once attackers get inside, there’s little visibility into east-west movement across enclaves and virtual networks. Here’s how Cynamics Federal solve for this:
Rapid deployment with no TAPs required
- Monitoring enabled across east-west paths inside the network without hardware or major redesign
Mapping normal behavior
- Establishing baselines of internal communication patterns between workloads, users, and services
Detecting anomalies in real time
- Flagged unusual lateral connections
- Identified suspicious internal beaconing consistent with APT persistence techniques