IP Performance provides a modern Network Detection and Response capability under our Swarm-SecOps brand. It is designed to give organisations deep visibility into network activity and uncover threats that may evade traditional security controls.
Network Detection and Response
As part of our managed security operations service, Network Detection and Response plays a critical role in detecting lateral movement, command-and-control traffic, data exfiltration, reconnaissance and suspicious internal behaviour across the customer environment.
Uncovering Threats Across Your Network
Attackers often work hard to avoid detection. They may use legitimate credentials, trusted administration tools, encrypted channels or slow, careful movement across the network to blend into normal operations.
Endpoint tools are essential, but they do not always provide the full picture of what is happening between systems. This is where NDR becomes invaluable. By capturing network traffic and producing high-fidelity telemetry logs, Swarm-SecOps can reconstruct activity across the wire and help identify what is happening during a breach, even when adversaries are operating carefully.
Our NDR capability is built around Zeek, a powerful network security monitoring tool that transforms raw network traffic into rich, structured telemetry. Rather than relying solely on signature-based alerts, Zeek creates detailed protocol logs that show how systems are communicating.
This includes visibility into connections, DNS activity, HTTP requests, TLS handshakes, SMB activity, authentication attempts, file transfers and other network behaviours. These logs provide analysts with the evidence needed to understand attacker movement, validate suspicious activity and support incident investigation.
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High-quality network telemetry
The value of Zeek-based NDR lies in its fidelity. During a security incident, knowing that an alert fired is not enough. Analysts need to understand which hosts communicated, what protocols were used, what domains were queried, whether unusual authentication occurred, and whether data may have moved out of the environment. High-quality network telemetry allows Swarm-SecOps to answer these questions quickly and with confidence.
Within Swarm-SecOps, NDR sensors are deployed at agreed network collection points to capture traffic from key areas of the environment. The telemetry produced by these sensors is ingested into our SIEM, where it is normalised, indexed and correlated with endpoint data, identity signals, infrastructure logs, deception alerts and threat intelligence. This creates a broader detection and response fabric, allowing network activity to be analysed in context rather than in isolation.
Detect & Analyse
Our Detect & Analyse tier uses NDR telemetry to identify anomalous and malicious behaviours such as lateral movement, command-and-control communication, scanning, suspicious protocol use and potential data exfiltration.
Alerts and events are enriched through SOAR workflows and reviewed by our experienced cybersecurity analysts. This human-led investigation model ensures that network signals are interpreted accurately and aligned to the customer’s environment.
Respond
In our Respond tier, NDR intelligence supports rapid threat disruption and containment. When malicious activity is confirmed, Swarm-SecOps can help coordinate actions such as blocking malicious IPs or domains, isolating affected systems, shutting down switch ports, or escalating containment through agreed incident response playbooks.
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Swarm-SecOps delivers NDR
Swarm-SecOps delivers NDR as more than a sensor deployment. We provide expert architecture, traffic capture design, Zeek telemetry, SIEM integration, detection engineering, analyst investigation and response workflows. The result is a powerful network visibility capability that helps organisations detect stealthy attackers, understand breach activity and respond before threats spread further.
NDR frequently asked questions
NDR stands for Network Detection and Response. It monitors network traffic to identify suspicious behaviour, lateral movement, command-and-control activity, data exfiltration and other signs of compromise. NDR gives security teams visibility into what is happening between systems, not just on individual endpoints.
Attackers often move carefully through networks using legitimate credentials, trusted tools and encrypted communications. NDR helps detect this activity by analysing network behaviour and producing high-fidelity telemetry that can reveal what happened during a breach, even when an attacker has avoided endpoint detection.
Swarm-SecOps uses Zeek as the foundation of our NDR capability. Zeek captures network traffic and converts it into rich, structured logs covering connections, DNS, HTTP, TLS, SMB, authentication activity and other protocols. This gives analysts detailed evidence for threat detection, investigation and response.
NDR telemetry helps analysts reconstruct attacker activity across the network. It can show which systems communicated, what protocols were used, which domains were queried, whether unusual authentication occurred and whether data may have been transferred. This context is critical for understanding scope, impact and containment priorities.
NDR telemetry is integrated into the Swarm-SecOps SIEM and correlated with EDR, deception technologies, identity signals, infrastructure logs and threat intelligence. Alerts are enriched through SOAR workflows and reviewed by human analysts, helping customers detect threats earlier and respond with greater confidence.
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Swarm-SecOps delivers NDR as more than a sensor deployment. We provide expert architecture, traffic capture design, Zeek telemetry, SIEM integration, detection engineering, analyst investigation and response workflows. The result is a powerful network visibility capability that helps organisations detect stealthy attackers, understand breach activity and respond before threats spread further.