Bad IP Blocking
Automatically block all known bad IP addresses pre-firewall
Every day, companies receive enormous volumes of unwanted internet traffic from known malicious sources. Cybercriminals reuse compromised infrastructure, command-and-control servers, phishing hosts, malware distribution networks, and botnets that are already well known by the global cyber security community.
Yet in many environments, this traffic is still allowed to reach the firewall, where it consumes processing resources, generates security events, is analysed by multiple security tools, forwarded to SIEM platforms, and ultimately presented to SOC Analysts for investigation.
The question is simple
Stop known threats before your firewall
Traditional security architectures rely on firewalls, IDS/IPS platforms, XDR solutions, and SIEMs to inspect and classify internet traffic after it has already entered the security stack. Our Centripetal CleanINTERNET solution takes a different approach.
Operating before the firewall, it continuously identifies and blocks inbound and outbound communications with known malicious IP addresses, preventing unwanted traffic from ever reaching downstream security infrastructure.
By stopping malicious traffic at the earliest possible stage, companies significantly reduce the workload placed on firewalls, intrusion prevention systems, XDR platforms, SIEMs, and of course; SOC Analysts.
Rather than asking every security product to rediscover known threats, CleanINTERNET prevents those connections from happening in the first place.
Attackers constantly change their infrastructure, but they also leave an enormous amount of intelligence behind.
CleanINTERNET continuously aggregates and correlates intel from a vast range of commercial, government, open-source, and proprietary threat intelligence feeds, creating one of the world’s most comprehensive views of malicious internet infrastructure.
It then uses this intel to build a continuously updated picture of hostile IP addresses associated with malware distribution, botnets, phishing campaigns, command-and-control-attacks, ransomware operators, exploited infrastructure, and emerging cyber threats.
Every connection attempt is evaluated against this continuously updated intelligence, enabling malicious communications to be blocked long before they interact with traditional security controls.
The result is contextual, intel-driven protection that adapts as quickly as the threat landscape itself.
Security Operations Centres are under constant pressure. Analysts spend significant amounts of time investigating alerts that ultimately relate to threats already known to be malicious.
Every one of those alerts generates telemetry, consumes Analysts’ time, and every log contributes towards rising SIEM ingestion costs. And let’s not forget; every false investigation delays the identification of genuine threats.
By preventing known malicious traffic from entering the environment in the first place, companies dramatically reduce the volume of alerts generated across their security infrastructure.
The result is a cleaner, higher-quality stream of security events, allowing Analysts to focus their attention on suspicious activity that genuinely requires investigation rather than processing internet background noise.
The benefits CleanINTERNET brings extend well beyond improved security and lower SIEM log ingestion costs. Reducing unnecessary security events also means lower XDR processing overhead, less firewall utilisation, faster investigations, reduced threat fatigue, and improved operational efficiency.
And many companies discover that the operational savings alone provide a compelling return on investment while simultaneously strengthening their overall security posture.
It’s important to note that CleanINTERNET does not replace your firewall, SIEM, XDR or other security controls. Instead, it makes them significantly more effective and prolongs their effective lifespan.
By removing known malicious traffic pre-firewall with CleanINTERNET, your existing security tools spend their time analysing genuinely suspicious activity rather than repeatedly processing threats that have already been identified by the wider cyber security community.
Think of it as reducing the haystack so the needle becomes far easier to find.
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