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Agentless Traffic Monitoring

Analyze network traffic coming to and from your infrastructure IP addresses, detecting malicious traffic with details down to the malware family — no deployment and no agents required.

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How it works

Detailed infrastructure traffic analysis at your fingertips

Get a clear view of all inbound and outbound traffic to your exposed IP addresses — including source and destination IPs, ports, protocols, and timestamps. Spot patterns, understand behavior, and detect suspicious connections at a glance, all powered by real-time NetFlow data.

Agentless operation

Attaxion’s Agentless Traffic Monitoring doesn’t require you to install any agents or sensors. No time wasted installing or setting up – get to the value right away.

Malware communication detection

See which of your infrastructure IPs talk to IP addresses with a bad reputation – and act quickly. Agentless Traffic Monitoring integrates with IoC threat intelligence feeds, providing useful context, in some cases with details all the way down to the specific malware family.

Retroactive data

No need to wait while the data is collected – you can see historical traffic data immediately after you enable Traffic Monitoring.

Agentless Traffic Monitoring Use Cases

Risk Prioritization

Identify which vulnerabilities need immediate attention by correlating asset exposure with live traffic data. If a vulnerable asset is actively communicating with a known malicious IP, you’ll know it’s time to act.
Incident Response

Speed up investigations by instantly seeing which assets send or receive suspicious traffic. Agentless Traffic Monitoring provides the context needed to isolate threats and respond faster.
Threat Hunting

Proactively uncover threats without deploying sensors. Use NetFlow data and integrated threat intelligence to track malicious behavior across your external-facing assets.

What security experts say

Attaxion found assets we didn't know existed. The platform also identifies new assets and security issues over time and provides useful context.

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FAQs

How does Agentless Traffic Monitoring work?

Attaxion uses global NetFlow traffic data, showing you the part that is relevant to IP addresses in your infrastructure and correlating it with IoCs from various threat intelligence sources. This lets you see inbound and outbound connections, spot malicious traffic, and prioritize threats — without deploying sensors or installing agents inside your environment.

What is NetFlow?

NetFlow is a network protocol that captures metadata about traffic flows — such as source and destination IPs, ports, protocols, and timestamps.

Unlike deep packet inspection that analyzes both packet data and payload, NetFlow doesn’t show packet content but provides enough context to analyze traffic patterns and detect unusual or risky behavior.

How can you get traffic information without deploying agents?

Attaxion uses real-time NetFlow data to monitor global internet traffic. That includes traffic to and from your internet-facing IP addresses, which allows Attaxion to observe and analyze it without needing access to your internal systems or deploying any agents.

Is historical traffic data available right away?

Yes. Once Agentless Traffic Monitoring is enabled for your account, historical NetFlow traffic data for your known assets becomes available immediately, so you can start investigating right away without waiting for data collection to begin.

How to enable Agentless Traffic Monitoring in Attaxion?

Currently, Agentless Traffic Monitoring is only available upon request. If you want to get access to Agentless Traffic Monitoring, please contact us (no matter which plan you’re on).

Does Attaxion capture network packets?

Unlike traditional network traffic analysis (NTA) tools that need to sit inside the network and rely on packet capture, Attaxion’s Agentless Traffic Monitoring avoids both. Instead, it uses NetFlow data collected at major Internet nodes to get the traffic flow direction. Unlike traditional network monitoring tools, no packet capture is involved, so Attaxion does not pose any threat to network users’ privacy or security. It also does not affect network performance in any way.

Does Agentless Traffic Monitoring replace local network monitoring systems?

No, they are complementary. Firstly, Agentless Traffic Monitoring only captures traffic coming to and from your organization’s external assets, but not internal network traffic. Secondly, using deep packet inspection locally to analyze traffic between network devices can reveal a lot to threat hunters, so it shouldn’t be overlooked if you want to have solid network security.

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