Network Detection and Response
Network Detection and Response (NDR)
Attackers who slip past the perimeter move quietly inside your network. NDR gives you visibility into that internal traffic, so intrusions are caught early and contained before they become breaches.
Trusted by leading Australian organisations
CyberPulse clients include Minter Ellison, Veolia, Sydney Roosters, Utopia Digital and Meshed.
What our NDR service delivers
Continuous visibility, detection and response across your network, delivered as one managed service.
Deep visibility across your network
Passive, agentless monitoring of internal and perimeter traffic across on-premises, cloud, hybrid and remote environments. Encrypted traffic is analysed without decryption, so privacy and compliance are preserved.
AI-assisted threat detection
Behavioural models surface anomalies and stealthy attacker activity, with identity-centric analysis across users, hosts and service accounts. Detections map to MITRE ATT&CK, from lateral movement to command and control.
Signal prioritisation and scoring
Every detection is scored by severity, confidence and business impact. Automated triage surfaces the threats worth acting on, so your team spends less time on noise and more on real risk.
Integration and automated response
NDR works with your existing SIEM, SOAR, EDR, firewalls and identity platforms. Playbooks support isolation, segmentation and automated investigation, with full kill-chain mapping for responders.
Threat hunting and forensics
On-demand search across full network metadata, with host and user behaviour timelines for attack reconstruction and retrospective analysis of newly identified indicators.
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How our NDR service works
Deploy
We deploy network sensors, physical or virtual, with no agents on endpoints and no disruption to your environment.
Baseline
The platform learns what normal looks like across users, devices and traffic, so unusual behaviour stands out.
Detect and score
Behavioural models and threat intelligence flag suspicious activity, scored by severity, confidence and business impact.
Investigate
Our 24x7 security operations team triages and investigates alerts, separating real threats from noise.
Respond and contain
We guide or trigger containment through your existing tools, from isolation to segmentation, to stop threats spreading.
Hunt and tune
Ongoing threat hunting and detection tuning keep coverage sharp as your environment and the threat landscape change.
Why it matters
See what firewalls and EDR cannot
Firewalls guard the perimeter and EDR watches endpoints. NDR sees the east-west traffic, unmanaged assets and attacker paths between them that neither can.
Detect living-off-the-land attacks
Skilled attackers use legitimate tools and stolen credentials to stay quiet. Behavioural analysis spots lateral movement, privilege abuse and data staging as they happen.
Focus on real threats, not noise
Every detection is scored by severity, confidence and business impact, so your team spends its time on the attacks that matter, not the alert backlog.
Accelerate incident response
Context-rich alerts, identity correlation and clear timelines give responders what they need to contain a threat quickly and confidently.
Ideal for
- ✓Organisations that need visibility into internal movement and cloud attack paths
- ✓Security teams overwhelmed by noisy, low-value alerts
- ✓Hybrid environments with gaps in detection coverage
- ✓Regulated sectors that need network-level detection for compliance
Why CyberPulse for NDR
Managed, not another tool
We deploy, tune, monitor and respond. NDR is delivered as an outcome by our local team, not another platform for you to run.
Local 24x7 monitoring
An Australian security operations team watches your network around the clock, so detections are investigated and acted on, day or night.
Detection that fits you
We tune detection to your environment and map it to the frameworks you report against, from the Essential Eight to APRA CPS 234.
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Frequently asked questions
What is network detection and response (NDR)?
NDR is a security capability that monitors network traffic to detect threats that evade perimeter and endpoint tools. It uses behavioural analysis to spot suspicious activity such as lateral movement and command and control, then supports rapid investigation and response.
How is NDR different from EDR and a firewall?
Firewalls control traffic at the perimeter and EDR watches endpoints. NDR watches the network itself, including internal, encrypted and east-west traffic, so it can see attacker movement between systems that endpoint and perimeter tools miss.
Does NDR require agents on our devices?
No. CyberPulse NDR uses network sensors, physical or virtual, so there are no agents to deploy on endpoints and no disruption to your systems.
Can NDR inspect encrypted traffic?
Yes. Our approach analyses encrypted traffic using behavioural and metadata techniques without decrypting it, so threats are detected while privacy and compliance are preserved.
Is the service monitored around the clock?
Yes. Our Australian security operations team triages, investigates and escalates detections 24×7, so you are not relying on in-house staff to watch alerts overnight.
How does NDR support compliance?
Network-level detection supports controls in frameworks such as the Essential Eight, ISO 27001 and APRA CPS 234. We map detections and reporting to the frameworks your organisation is accountable to.
What is network detection and response?
Network detection and response (NDR) is a security capability that continuously monitors network traffic to identify threats that slip past perimeter and endpoint defences. Rather than relying on known signatures, NDR uses behavioural analysis and machine learning to detect unusual activity across internal, encrypted and east-west traffic.
Because skilled attackers use legitimate credentials and everyday tools to move through a network, much of their activity never triggers a traditional alert. NDR surfaces that behaviour, from lateral movement and privilege escalation to command and control, and gives responders the context to act before an intrusion becomes a breach.
CyberPulse delivers NDR as a managed service. We deploy and tune leading detection platforms such as Vectra AI, monitor them 24×7 with a local security operations team, and integrate with your existing SIEM, SOAR, EDR and identity tooling, so detection and response work together across your environment.