Ridgeback: Active Defense for Modern Threats

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In today’s AI-enabled threat landscape, the value of a security tool is measured by its operational impact and control effectiveness rather than just its feature list. Ridgeback breaks traditional evaluation molds by providing an easy-to-operationalize solution that works within your existing environment – whether a global largest enterprise or a small, stretched local businesses – to disrupt adversaries in real-time.

Gartner cites the need for a new generation of preemptive security tools. Ridgeback is the leader in applying the Gartner standards of “deny, deceive and disrupt” to cybersecurity.

Rapid Deployment and Operational Ease

Ridgeback is designed for immediate utility, requiring no agents on endpoints and minimal ongoing administration.

Metric
Ridgeback Result
Mean Time to Deploy (MTTD)
< 15 minutes
Initial Configuration
Minimal/policy-based
SOC Alert Triage
Near-zero noise
Change Management
Non-disruptive

Comprehensive Network Visibility

Achieve 100% visibility across all network layers and device types without requiring complex routing changes.

Metric
Ridgeback Profile
Operating Layers
OSI Layers 2-4
Deployment Footprint
~1 MB per broadcast domain
Coverage Scope
IT, OT, IoT, unmanaged, and vendor devices
Asset Visibility
100% of active MACs, IPs, and services
Discovery Method
Live, real-time observation
Segment Coverage
All VLANs
Visibility Latency
None

Efficiency in Complex Systems

Ridgeback helps IT and security teams transform chaotic environments into orderly systems, drastically reducing the time required to identify issues and contain threats.

Metric
Orderly Systems
Chaotic Systems
Quantified Benefit
Time to Identify New Device
Seconds-minutes
Days-never
10x-100x faster
Time to Validate Segmentation
Real-time
Manual audit
Weeks avoided
Mean Time to Containment
Automated/minutes
Hours-days
80-95% reduction
Incident Investigation Time
Linear
Exponential
50-70% labor reduction

High-Fidelity Sensing

By focusing on actual adversary interaction rather than mere inference, Ridgeback delivers high-fidelity signals with virtually no false positives.

Metric
Ridgeback Performance
False Positive Rate
0%
Alert-to-Incident Ratio
1:1
Detection Trigger
Adversary interaction, not inference
Detection Latency
First packet / first probe
Signal Source
Network behavior, not signatures

Automated Containment and Disruption

Ridgeback imposes high costs on attackers by presenting Phantom on-the-fly, on-demand to engage, discover, and halt lateral movement.

Metric
Ridgeback Outcome
Dwell Time
Seconds
Containment Method
Automated Phantom response, Host Isolation
Adversary Cost Imposition
High

Compliance and Control Validation

Meet regulatory requirements and validate Zero Trust architectures through continuous, real-time evidence production.

Metric
Ridgeback Value
Control Validation
Continuous, real-time
Audit Evidence Production
Minutes
Zero Trust Validation
Provable at the network layer
Regulatory Alignment
NIST, CMMC, FTC
Audit Support
Strong

Business and Financial Impact

Beyond security, Ridgeback optimizes your operations by saving analyst hours and de-emphasizing redundant tools.

Metric
Typical Outcome
SOC Analyst Hours Saved
10-20% of hours per week
Admin Hours Saved
10-20% of hours per week
Incident Escalations
Materially reduced
Tool Overlap
Multiple tools can be de-emphasized

The Active Defense Advantage

Ridgeback fills the blind spots created by traditional EDR, NDR, and UBA solutions, providing instant containment at the network layer.

Feature
EDR
NDR
Ridgeback
Primary Scope
Endpoint (Device)
Network (Traffic Analysis)
Network Layer 2-4
How it Works
Records file activity
Passive packet analysis
Presents Phantom assets
Blind Spots
Unmanaged devices (IoT), Rogue devices
Encrypted traffic
Single-host attacks
MTTD
~4-12 Hours
~24-48 Hours
Instant (<1 second)
MTTC
~1-4 Hours
~4-8 Hours
Instant (Automated)

Ridgeback offers a non-disruptive, agentless solution that provides 100% network visibility and instant, automated containment, significantly reducing both breach probability and operational overhead.

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