Security Insights for network security at the edge without complexity 

Key takeaway: By analyzing flow and packet telemetry directly at the network edge using LiveWire and LiveNX, Security Insights enables faster detection, stronger forensics, and shared visibility across NetOps and SecOps. It provides a cost-effective alternative to traditional NDR, helping teams respond to threats quickly without adding complexity or infrastructure.

Modern cyber adversaries don’t confine themselves to one domain: They move laterally across endpoints, servers, networks, cloud environments, and data centers. Yet, most enterprises still operate with fragmented visibility. The network team sees one slice, the security team sees another, and blind spots remain. This is precisely where attackers thrive.

Enterprises rely on security information and event management (SIEM), security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR), and extended detection and response (XDR) solutions to secure networks. Furthermore, traditional network detection and response (NDR) tools that ingest massive volumes of packet data into centralized cloud-based systems for analysis are often too data-transfer-intensive, expensive, and slow. 

At the same time, packet and flow data provide a rich source of security insight. Too often, however, organizations limit this data to performance monitoring. With Security Insights, an add-on to BlueCat LiveWire accessible through BlueCat LiveNX, network and security teams can harness and analyze packet and flow telemetry directly at the network edge to quickly stop threats. This closes visibility gaps, accelerates detection, and avoids the overhead of traditional NDR.

In this post, we explore how Security Insights detects threats by analyzing flow and packet data at the network edge. Then, we highlight how Security Insights helps bridge the gap between NetOps and SecOps teams. Next, we examine three high-impact use cases. Finally, we discuss how Security Insights is a scalable and cost-effective network security solution for enterprises.

Modern network threat detection with Security Insights 

Instead of introducing yet another complex, data-heavy security stack, Security Insights leverages the telemetry and packet data you already own: LiveNX for flow visibility and LiveWire for deep forensic analysis. 

Security Insights enables organizations to:

• Detect network and DNS-based threats earlier using existing telemetry
• Investigate anomalies with flow-level context and packet-level forensics
• Respond faster without deploying a new, data-heavy security stack
• Unify network and security teams around a shared view of risk
• Improve visibility across hybrid, cloud, and distributed environments

It surfaces threats, anomalies, and policy violations directly within LiveNX’s Security Insights dashboard, giving both network and security teams a unified view of risk across hybrid and distributed environments. When deeper investigation is needed, LiveWire provides full packet-level visibility. Teams can reconstruct sessions, uncover hidden behaviors, and validate indicators of compromise (IOCs) with forensic precision. 

By analyzing flow and packet data at the edge of the network, Security Insights eliminates the need to backhaul massive data sets to the cloud or a centralized analysis platform. This edge-first approach delivers faster detection, lower costs, and stronger resilience. And it results in real-time anomaly detection, proactive threat hunting, and forensic-grade investigation within the trusted LiveNX and LiveWire environments.  

Security Insights also integrates seamlessly with SIEM, SOAR, and XDR solutions. This makes it simple to operationalize within current workflows. By leveraging existing infrastructure, enterprises can maximize ROI, streamline operations, and scale defense across distributed, hybrid, and regulated environments. 

Security Insights bridges NetOps and SecOps 

Network teams focus on uptime and performance, and security teams are dedicated to detection and defense. Attackers exploit the seams between them, moving through hybrid and multicloud environments faster than traditional processes can respond. 

This leaves a critical visibility gap. Network teams see performance anomalies but often lack context to understand their security implications. Meanwhile, security teams may spot suspicious behavior without knowing where it originated or how it’s moving across the infrastructure. Without a shared view, investigations stall, response times increase, and risk compounds. 

Security Insights turns network data into a shared source of truth for both NetOps and SecOps. The network team can provide meaningful, real-time intelligence that complements security telemetry, enabling both groups to operate with the same visibility and context. But rather than layering yet another NDR platform or forcing teams into new workflows, Security Insights maximizes the value of existing tools: LiveNX for flow visualization and anomaly detection, and LiveWire for packet-level forensics. 

The result is a unified view of network behavior across LAN, WAN, SD-WAN, data center, and cloud environments. Flow telemetry and packet evidence are correlated automatically. This provides an immediate connection between what’s happening at the transport layer and what’s being observed at the application or endpoint level. Teams can pivot seamlessly from high-level detection in LiveNX to full packet inspection in LiveWire—reconstructing events, validating IOCs, and tracing lateral movement, all from a single interface.

With Security Insights, organizations gain:

• A shared operational truth for network and security teams
• Faster, more confident threat detection and response
• Reduced investigation time and operational friction
• Greater resiliency without added infrastructure complexity
• Maximum value from existing LiveNX and LiveWire investments

The result is NetOps and SecOps teams that can evolve into a unified, proactive defense unit. 

Top use cases for Security Insights 

Security Insights allows organizations to see, understand, and act on network threats. Unifying flow telemetry, packet analysis, and security findings into a single environment provides a robust foundation for network defense. It bridges the gap between performance monitoring and security operations, turning raw network data into a continuous source of truth for faster detection, deeper analysis, and stronger resilience without the overhead of traditional NDR solutions.

Below are three high-impact uses for Security Insights that highlight how it transforms existing infrastructure into an intelligent, integrated detection-and-response layer.

1. Real-time security findings 

Modern attacks move at machine speed, so detection must too. Security Insights continuously monitors network behavior, automatically identifying suspicious activity, policy violations, and insecure protocol usage the moment they occur. 

By leveraging flow telemetry from LiveNX and packet-level analysis from LiveWire, Security Insights correlates these findings across all environments—LAN, WAN, SD-WAN, data center, and cloud—giving teams complete visibility into where and how threats emerge. 

Each detection is mapped to industry frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK and the Open Worldwide Application Security Project (OWASP). This ensures that findings are not just accurate but also actionable and aligned to known adversarial tactics and techniques. This mapping enables faster triage, standardized reporting, and more confident response workflows across both network and security operations. 

Whether it’s identifying an unapproved application via encrypted channels or detecting a brute-force attempt against the Remote Desktop Protocol, Security Insights surfaces the context and impact immediately. It empowers teams to respond in minutes instead of hours.

2. Forensic investigation 

When incidents occur, speed and precision are everything. Security Insights combines flow analytics from LiveNX with LiveWire’s indexed packet capture to deliver full forensic visibility across the network. Analysts can reconstruct events in seconds, identify root causes, and validate IOCs with pinpoint accuracy. 

Unlike traditional NDR systems that rely on costly cloud-based analysis, Security Insights performs this work locally at the network edge. This edge-first architecture eliminates data movement delays and allows teams to replay historical network sessions instantly for post-incident review. 

The forensic process is both intuitive and comprehensive. Analysts can pivot from a flow anomaly to the exact packet exchange that caused an incident, view payloads, confirm malicious behavior, and correlate that evidence to the affected systems or users. This level of visibility not only accelerates investigation but also strengthens audit readiness and compliance reporting. 

In regulated sectors like finance, healthcare, and government, where audit trails and forensic records are non-negotiable, this capability ensures every decision is backed by verifiable data and a complete record of activity. 

3. Proactive threat hunting 

The most effective security programs don’t just wait for alerts—they actively seek out hidden risks. With Security Insights, analysts can perform proactive threat hunting across flow and packet data. They can uncover subtle command-and-control traffic, policy bypass attempts, or abnormal behavioral patterns before they escalate. 

By correlating insights from LiveNX’s flow telemetry and LiveWire’s packet-level intelligence, analysts can visualize suspicious behaviors at both the macro and micro levels. They can drill down from high-level anomalies, such as repeated connections to unclassified domains or unusual encryption usage, into the full packet payloads to confirm or rule out malicious activity. 

This continuous, iterative approach enables security teams to shift from reactive incident response to proactive defense. Over time, these hunts also feed back into operational improvements, refining detection rules, tuning policies, and closing visibility gaps. 

For organizations striving to align with Zero Trust and continuous monitoring frameworks, Security Insights offers the telemetry and analytical depth needed to make proactive threat hunting a repeatable, scalable practice.

Why enterprises need Security Insights now 

Attackers are moving faster, budgets are tighter, and security operations are consolidating around interoperable SIEM, SOAR, and XDR platforms. The era of siloed, monolithic NDR tools is over. 

Security Insights delivers a scalable, open, and cost-effective alternative for hybrid and distributed enterprises. It provides visibility across every domain—LAN, WAN, SD-WAN, data center, and cloud—empowering teams to accelerate response, strengthen resilience, and reduce risk without rebuilding their stack. 

As security operations converge, Security Insights stands out as the practical bridge between network observability and threat intelligence. It enables: 

• Faster detection and response: Move from hours to minutes with real-time, edge-based analytics. 
• Reduced cost and time: Perform packet analysis locally with no time-consuming and costly data backhaul to the cloud or centralized data center for analysis. 
• Deeper forensics: Retain and analyze packet and flow data to meet compliance and investigation requirements. 
• Unified visibility: Bridge network and security insights for faster decision-making. 
• Seamless integration: Send data to Splunk, Cisco Secure Network Analytics, and other SIEM, SOAR, or XDR platforms for correlation with endpoint logs, to set policies to block threats, and to quarantine offenders. 

Security Insights transforms the network into a proactive defense layer. By leveraging the telemetry and packet data already in motion, it empowers teams to detect, investigate, and respond faster, without the cost and complexity of legacy tools. When attackers move in minutes and defenders often take days to respond, Security Insights delivers the visibility, intelligence, and agility that enterprises need to stay ahead. 

Ready to experience the next level of security? Request a demo of Security Insights today.