Sangfor Athena NDR - Network Detection and Response
Intelligent Threat Detection and Response Platform
Sangfor Athena NDR (previously known as Sangfor Cyber Command) provides real-time visibility into network traffic. With AI-driven behavioral analytics, it detects what others miss—lateral movement, advanced attacks, and insider threats that evade traditional tools. Detailed event insights and automated responses empower your team to handle complex threats with speed and confidence.
Beyond its core NDR capabilities, Athena NDR integrates with firewall and endpoint security solutions, enabling unified visibility and automated response capabilities typical of full-scale SOCs.
How Athena NDR Works at a Glance
Athena NDR Key Features and Capabilities
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Athena NDR captures full network traffic and security logs across all network segments—both north-south and east-west—and analyzes this data using AI, behavior analytics, threat intelligence, and more. By establishing baselines of normal activity, Athena NDR identifies anomalies that signal sophisticated threats such as advanced persistent threats (APTs), ransomware, lateral movement, and insider threats—often missed by isolated security tools. This enables real-time, context-rich threat detection across the entire environment.
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Athena NDR streamlines forensic investigation by merging related security events and highlighting affected assets. By collecting IOCs and BIOCs, it enables deep, post-incident analysis, helping analysts quickly uncover root causes, validate threats, and export findings for reporting.
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The Golden Eye engine enables proactive threat hunting by analyzing compromised asset behavior and reconstructing the entire attack chain. This deep visibility into attacker tactics and techniques enables high-confidence investigations and rapid root cause identification.
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A built-in SOAR module accelerates threat containment using predefined and customizable playbooks. It integrates with Athena EPP, Athena NGFW, and third-party tools to automate actions like host isolation and domain blocking, reducing response time and analyst workload.
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Athena NDR aggregates logs and alerts from integrated security tools to provide a unified view of assets, threats, vulnerabilities, and more. This centralized approach allows teams to monitor security posture in real time, spot risks faster, and take proactive actions—all within a few clicks.
Athena NDR Walkthrough Video
Experience how Athena NDR delivers real-time threat detection, investigation, and response in a single, lightweight platform.
This walkthrough video takes you through its powerful features and shows how it simplifies security operations without compromising performance.
Athena NDR Competitive Advantages
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Athena NDR combines signature-based detection, threat intelligence, and AI analytics under one license. Together, these enable the detection of known, emerging, and unknown threats, while some competing NDR solutions require separate add-ons for full coverage.
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Unlike other NDR platforms, Athena NDR includes built-in threat hunting with Golden Eye and native SOAR capabilities—no external tools or add-ons required. This eliminates compatibility issues, reduces complexity, and cuts costs.
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To protect the user from web threats, a secure web gateway is an effective defense over web-based threats and enabling secure internet access. Athena SWG can work with your on-premise applications and internet traffic. With the accelerated SSL decryption performance, all HTTP and HTTPS traffic will be monitored and analyzed with Athena SWG, which is the huge bottleneck of other solutions like NGFW or UTM. The AI-based threat intelligence platform provides web filtering services and improves the capability of identifying known and unknown threats. It also keeps users protected while ensuring they enjoy a safe and secure web experience.
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Athena NDR integrates with Sangfor EPP, NGFW, and third-party tools to aggregate alerts for unified visibility and management. Combined with built-in SOAR, it delivers lightweight SOC functionality, whereas many NDR products focus on standalone traffic analysis.