Investigate
Use forensic evidence when proof is required to confirm what happened and support confident response.
Enrich
Identify events, anomalies, or alerts that require attention.
Add metadata-rich context from network activity, flow, logs, telemetry, and threat intelligence.
Investigate
Validate
Prove what happened when confidence matters. SecOps can use forensic evidence to confirm suspicious activity, perform retrospective analysis, validate threat intelligence, and support incident response decisions.
Why it matters: SecOps can respond with greater confidence, knowing decisions are backed by validated evidence rather than alert data alone.
How It Helps SecOps
Confirm root cause with trusted evidence. When deeper validation is required, NetOps can access forensic evidence to confirm service behavior, support vendor discussions, and resolve disputes around performance, application, or infrastructure issues.
Why it matters: NetOps can move beyond assumptions and support root-cause isolation with proof.
How It Helps NetOps
Investigate threat activity with network-derived context. Observer helps SecOps investigate suspicious behavior using metadata-rich context, IoC-centric workflows, historical visibility, and threat intelligence. Teams can look back to "Day Zero" of an investigation to see when activity first appeared, what happened before, during, and after an alert, and how far the activity may have spread to better understand scope and impact.
Why it matters: SecOps can validate alerts faster, reduce false positives, and avoid relying on disconnected tools to reconstruct what happened.
How It Helps SecOps
Investigate performance impact with shared visibility. NetOps can connect service behavior, application performance, user impact, and network activity in a single investigation workflow. Teams can quickly determine whether an issue is tied to the network, application, server, client, or another dependency.
Why it matters: NetOps can move from “something is wrong” to a clearer understanding of where the issue is happening and who is affected.
How It Helps NetOps
Add context to alerts and suspicious activity. Metadata, flow, log-based telemetry, and threat intelligence help SecOps understand the activity surrounding an alert, including IoC affected systems, communication patterns, and potential risk indicators.
Why it matters: SecOps can better prioritize what needs attention; is it a real threat, reduce uncertainty, and determine whether deeper investigation is required.
How It Helps SecOps
Turn network activity into operational context. NetOps understand which users, applications, services, and paths are involved in an issue. Instead of starting with disconnected symptoms, teams can quickly see where performance is degrading, what may be impacted, and where to focus investigation.
Why it matters: NetOps can reduce time spent manually correlating data across tools and move faster toward root cause.
How It Helps NetOps
The NetSecOps Shift: Why Shared Evidence Matters
Help NetOps and SecOps assess impact, validate findings, and act with trusted forensic evidence.
Correlate activity, impact, and scope across shared NetOps and SecOps workflows.
Enrich
Validate
Detection
Act with greater confidence using shared context and validated evidence.
RESPOND
Add metadata-rich context from network activity, flow, log-based telemetry, and threat intelligence.
Correlate activity, impact, and scope across shared NetOps and SecOps workflows.
Use forensic evidence when proof is required to confirm what happened and support confident response.