If you run a distributed enterprise, you already know this: your clean endpoint coverage report is not the whole story.
Your laptops are covered. Good.
Your routers, VPN concentrators, legacy switches, OT controllers? Not covered. Not monitored in any meaningful way.
Groups like Salt Typhoon have demonstrated something uncomfortable. Infrastructure devices are long-term persistence anchors. No agent. Limited logs. Often forgotten.
Most organizations respond the same way. They enable more logging and push it into their SIEM, whether that’s CrowdStrike, Splunk, or another platform.
Costs go up. Clarity does not.
Raw logs are not visibility. They are evidence after the fact, assuming you stored the right ones.
Hardware NDR everywhere is not realistic either. Shipping, maintaining, and lifecycle-managing hundreds of appliances across branches is a logistical and financial burden most teams underestimate.
The problem is simple: you need full traffic visibility at the edge without adding hardware sprawl.
That is where software-defined network probes make sense.
A lightweight probe running on existing edge compute, passively observing traffic via TAP or SPAN, gives you complete L2–L7 visibility without touching endpoints. No agents. No appliance fleet.
When detection happens, automated packet rewind tied to the event eliminates manual forensic hunts. Instead of asking “Do we have the PCAP?”, the evidence is already attached.
The value is not another dashboard.
It is measurable impact:
- Faster investigation cycles
- Reduced SIEM ingestion volume
- Coverage of infrastructure you cannot instrument otherwise
If you cannot see your routers and edge infrastructure, your risk model is incomplete. The solution is not more logs. It is better ground truth.
