Network Visibility
Backbone of Financial Regulatory Compliance & Cyber Resilience
Financial services regulations and executive directives increasingly emphasize the need for comprehensive network visibility as a foundation for cybersecurity, risk management, and regulatory compliance. Measures such as the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, and NYDFS Cybersecurity Regulation (23 NYCRR 500) require financial institutions to monitor, detect, and respond to threats across their IT environments. More recently, executive-level guidance like Executive Order 14028 has reinforced mandates for enhanced logging, endpoint detection, and zero trust architectures, all of which depend on deep network visibility. Together, these frameworks compel organizations to implement continuous monitoring, traffic analysis, and asset discovery capabilities to ensure they can identify anomalous behavior, protect sensitive financial data, and demonstrate compliance during audits.
Key Regulations & Implications
- Requires safeguarding of customer financial information (Safeguards Rule)
- Implies visibility into data flows across networks to prevent unauthorized access
- Necessitates monitoring of internal and external network traffic for data leakage
- Emphasizes enterprise risk management and systemic risk oversight
- Drives need for visibility into interconnected systems and third-party exposures
- Supports stress testing and incident response backed by network telemetry
- Explicitly mandates continuous monitoring or periodic penetration testing
- Requires audit trails and logging of user and system activity
- Forces implementation of tools that provide real-time network visibility
- Mandates enhanced logging, log retention, and centralized visibility
- Promotes Zero Trust Architecture, requiring full network and asset awareness
- Encourages adoption of EDR/XDR tools dependent on network telemetry
- Requires tracking and monitoring all access to cardholder data
- Mandates network segmentation and visibility into cardholder data environments
- Requires logging and analysis of network events
- Focuses on integrity of financial reporting systems
- Requires controls and monitoring over IT systems supporting financial data
- Network visibility supports detection of unauthorized system changes
NEOX Solutions for Financial Services
Delivering Advanced Network Visibility and Compliance Alignment for Modern Financial Institutions
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From Data to Dollars — Visibility Powers Confidence
End-to-End Hybrid Network Visibility for Red, Purple, and Blue Teams
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Full Network Transparency
- Up to 400Gbps visibility
- 100% network data access
- SSL/TLS traffic visibility
- East-west or North-south traffic
- Forward/reverse proxy
- URL filtering & Cert distribution
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Threat Detection & Mitigation
- Suricata-based Intrusion Detection
- Network Detection & Response
- SIEM integration
- Fast event logging
- Log export & compression
- Northbound alerts
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Forensics Analysis & Compliance
- Packet data storage for weeks
- 100Gbps full-packet capture
- Flow and log data export
- Out-of-box analysis software
- PCAP & Wireshark support
- Audit trail & Compliance
Threat Prevention and Data Protection
In today’s hyper-connected digital environment, protecting financial applications and customer data is critical for maintaining trust. Financial institutions must secure a wide range of systems—including ATMs, POS terminals, digital banking platforms, trading apps, online payments, and sensitive records like customer identities, bank accounts, mortgage data, insurance claims, brokerage information, and credit histories from network attacks (such as ransomware).
At NEOX, we understand that safeguarding this information is more than a compliance requirement—it’s essential for sustaining customer confidence and operational integrity. Our advanced network visibility and security solutions empower IT SecOps blue teams and NetOps to monitor every transaction, session, and login attempt in real-time through wire-speed network tapping and packet brokering.
By eliminating traffic blind spots, NEOX delivers comprehensive north-south and east-west traffic visibility, feeding critical telemetry to tools for: Network Detection & Response (NDR), Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS), Network Security Monitoring (NSM)—across both on-prem and hybrid infrastructures.
Our inline-bypass TAPs ensure seamless operation of security tools during updates or maintenance, and we support encrypted traffic handling and forward proxying, for both financial data centers and branch deployments. With high-speed packet capture and deep forensics, NEOX integrates into SOC workflows for risk mitigation, rapid incident response, and legal-grade evidence. Whether protecting cloud environments, enterprise networks, or financial IoT ecosystems, NEOX provides a robust network visibility framework—ensuring confidentiality, integrity, and availability of financial data, and enabling secure, confident operations in a constantly evolving threat landscape.
Digital Transformation, Innovation & Modernization
In today’s fast-paced financial services landscape, success depends on delivering innovative applications, a seamless user experience, and a secure digital environment. Banks, insurance providers, and trading platforms are in constant competition—relying heavily on cutting-edge technologies and hybrid-cloud infrastructure to gain an edge.
At NEOX, we understand the core IT priorities driving this transformation such as accelerating cloud adoption (under Cloud-First or Cloud-Smart strategies), modernizing legacy systems, integrating FinTech platforms, and ensuring speed and agility for customer-facing services.
Central to this evolution is complete hybrid-cloud network visibility—the foundation of both experience assurance and security monitoring. NEOX provides the tools to TAP and broker network traffic across on-prem data centers, branch locations, and multi-cloud environments, enabling full-spectrum observability. Our packet capture and analysis solutions deliver real-time network metrics essential for SLA validation and user experience monitoring—including TCP application analytics, bandwidth utilization, one-way latency, and top applications and protocols. These insights are critical as financial institutions lift and shift applications and workloads to the cloud or build cloud-native architectures, where issues can arise and blind spots emerge.
NEOX also ensures financial organizations maintain business continuity, resilience, and fault-tolerant operations—minimizing disruptions from outages or failures. By embedding deep visibility into every part of the network, we help financial institutions confidently deploy next-generation solutions, protect customer experiences, and support sustainable revenue growth.
Regulatory Compliance & Audit Readiness
Financial institutions such as banks, insurance carriers, and financial trading exchanges and brokerage houses, operate in one of the most highly regulated sectors, subject to stringent compliance mandates such as SEC Rule 17a-4, FINRA, SOX, PCI DSS, and GLBA in the US, FISMA, CJIS, and NIST 800-53 for public and government-aligned entities, GDPR and ISO/IEC 27001 for data protection and security governance globally.
These frameworks require organizations to maintain complete and tamper-proof records of network and user activity, preserve historical data for forensic investigations and legal evidence, and demonstrate proof of control, incident accountability, and audit readiness.
NEOX’s high-performance packet capture solutions play a foundational role in meeting these regulatory demands by delivering deep, continuous historic network visibility and lossless packet capture across all environments—on-prem data centers, branch, and multi-cloud.
NEOX offers full-packet data capture with extensible storage options to archive the network activity in the form of PCAP data for weeks and months, which can also be downloaded to cloud storage or other options.
With NEOX solutions, financial institutions gain a trusted, verifiable record of all network activity—the kind of visibility and data fidelity that risk managers, regulators, auditors, and IT security teams demand. Our solutions reduce compliance risk, accelerate audit response, and support a stronger security posture aligned with evolving regulatory standards. The result is operational confidence & audit readiness.
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