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Defeat Ransomware Attacks in Real Time

Lock down lateral movement and leave hackers stranded. Implement automated, agentless, MFA-powered microsegmentation in 30 days.

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Ransomware: An Ever-Changing Threat

Increasingly sophisticated, ransomware accounts for 70% of malware-related breaches and is the fastest growing cyber crime activity. In the past year, bad actors have increasingly focused on stealth and strategic sensitive data extraction, moving laterally throughout networks without raising alarms.

70%

Of malware-related breaches is due to ransomware

65%

Of mid-sized businesses were attacked via ransomware in 2023

> $1B

Ransomware payments exceeded $1 billion in 2023, a record high

Lock Down Lateral Movement: Microsegmentation to the Rescue

Microsegmentation is the most robust defense against lateral movement as it leaves attackers stranded. But it also has a reputation for being costly, labor intensive, and difficult to maintain and scale. This is because legacy solutions involve installing an agent on every asset and then manually creating firewalls rules for each asset, something that is infeasible for most mid-sized and enterprise organizations.

Zero Networks Segment is a military-grade, MFA-enabled microsegmentation solution. It deploys as a virtual appliance that remotely manages the host-OS firewall of every machine in the network to microsegment them without agents. It monitors and learns all network connections over a period of 30 days and creates corresponding, highly accurate firewall rules and policies. The policies allow legitimate traffic, transparent to end users, and apply just-in-time MFA to privileged remote admin protocols like RDP, SSH or WinRM that are also used by attackers to move laterally.

Learning

Zero Networks learns all network connections and creates rules for each asset

Segmenting

Policy is centrally applied on all host-based firewalls, allowing only necessary traffic

Applying MFA

Admin ports are blocked and open temporarily after MFA

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"You can’t possibly take something this hard and make it this easy... [Zero Networks is] a game changer."

Chris Turek

CISO

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Stop Ransomware Attacks that are Underway

What if no segmentation solutions are in place and a ransomware attack is underway? In such a case, manually segmenting each asset in the network is simply too slow. Zero Networks can stop the attack in less than 24 hours while keeping most of network operation intact, using its fully automated, hands-free approach.

In such incident response cases, where immediate intervention is required to stop ransomware spread, Zero Networks Segment learns about 80% of network activities in under 24 hours and applies MFA on all the rest. This approach keeps most legitimate network traffic intact, allowing organizations to resume normal operations while manual firewall rules are created for any network activity not captured by the 24-hour learning.

An Evolution of Network Security

Firewall on the perimeter

1990s

One firewall protects the entire network (as a single segment)

If one computer is breached, the entire network is compromised

Network Segmentation

2000s

Network is divided into large segments using hardware firewalls

If one computer is breached, the entire segment is compromised
There are multiple ways attackers can move between segments
Expensive and difficult to deploy and manage
Time to Value: Months to Years

Legacy Microsegmentation

2010s

Network is divided into small segments using software firewalls*

If one computer is breached, attack surface is limited
Agent based
Manual configurations
Labor intensive
No MFA
Segmenting server-to-server only
Many weeks/months to deploy
* some implementations may use hardware firewalls
Time to Value: Months to Years

Zero Networks Segment™

TODAY

Automatic segmentation of every network asset using its host-OS firewall

If one computer is breached, the attacker is blocked
Cloud based
Agentless
MFA everywhere
Fully automated
Deploys in hours, not months
Segmenting IT/OT, client-to-server, client-to-client, and server-to-server, on prem and in the cloud
Deployment: 1 hour
Time to Value: 30 days

Firewall on the perimeter 1990s	One firewall protects the entire network (as a single segment) If one computer is breached, the entire network is compromised
Network Segmentation 2000s	Network is divided into large segments using hardware firewalls If one computer is breached, the entire segment is compromised There are multiple ways attackers can move between segments Expensive and difficult to deploy and manage Time to Value: Months to Years
Legacy Microsegmentation 2010s	Network is divided into small segments using software firewalls* If one computer is breached, attack surface is limited Agent based Manual configurations Labor intensive No MFA Segmenting server-to-server only Many weeks/months to deploy * Many weeks/months to deploy Time to Value: Months to Years
Zero Networks Segment™ TODAY	Automatic segmentation of every network asset using its host-OS firewall If one computer is breached, the attacker is blocked Fully automated Agentless MFA everywhere Fully automated Deploys in hours, not months Segmenting IT/OT, client-to-server, client-to-client, and server-to-server, on prem and in the cloud Deployment: 1 hour Time to Value: 30 days