Everyone knows enterprise traffic is no longer confined to data centers or VPN tunnels.
It’s dispersed, encrypted, and routed through a complex chain of SaaS platforms, third-party APIs, and devices. But here’s the challenge: security teams haven’t been given the visibility to match this new world.
Visibility Gap is a Growing Risk
Traditional security tools were designed for perimeter-based systems. They function well when traffic goes through a few key points, like firewalls, proxies, and gateways. However, in today’s hybrid environments, much of that traffic bypasses IT-controlled infrastructure.
As a result:
- East-west traffic in distributed environments often goes unnoticed.
- Shadow IT, which includes unauthorized apps and services, operates without detection.
- Encrypted traffic prevents inspection tools from working effectively.
- SaaS usage is increasing rapidly, but there is little clarity on data access and movement.
Effectively, you cannot protect what you cannot see.
How Zenarmor Closes the Gap
Zenarmor is designed to restore visibility in today's modern, distributed environments. It doesn’t depend on network chokepoints or outdated taps. Instead, it provides inline inspection directly at the endpoint; this way, it captures traffic from its source.
Here are some key technical features that help security teams regain control:
North-South and East-West Visibility
Whether traffic is coming in and out of your network (north-south) or moving between hosts and workloads within your environment (east-west), Zenarmor captures and analyzes it in real time. This is especially important in cloud-first environments where lateral movement is harder to detect.
Application-Aware Traffic Inspection
Zenarmor applies Layer 7 deep packet inspection (DPI) to recognize applications irrespective of port or protocol. This allows you to distinguish approved apps (like Google Drive) from unapproved ones (like personal Dropbox or Telegram sessions), even in encrypted flows.
Shadow IT Discovery
By analyzing app usage at the packet level, Zenarmor finds tools and services that are used outside your approved stack; this includes unauthorized CRM tools, personal cloud storage, or collaboration apps. This gives IT teams the power to enforce policies without limiting productivity.
Granular Policy Enforcement
Visibility is only valuable if you can act on it. Zenarmor allows teams to enforce policies based on app category, location, or protocol; for example, it can block high-risk file-sharing apps, restrict access to known malware domains.
Why This Matters
In today’s fragmented security landscape, visibility is not optional, it is essential. Without it, even the best detection and response tools work with blind spots.
Zenarmor helps security teams regain that critical control, regardless of where users are and how they operate.
If you can’t see it, you can’t secure it.
Reach out to us today to know more about Zenarmor, or try it out for yourself.
