NaaS vendor Graphiant launches data assurance service to boost network visibility and compliance

Another example use case is with data sovereignty requirements and making sure that data doesn’t leave a specific country. One example cited by Raza is with routing in Germany. With classic Internet routing on the overlay, a path between two cities in Germany, like Dresden and Munich, might be through the Czech Republic, and “now you just broke the GDPR loans,” he said. 

Another example use case has to do with regulations related to encryption standards. Raza noted that he had a recent conversation with a payment customer that had some compliance concerns with building an overlay on top of VPNs. Some countries have different regulations on encryption, like China, which doesn’t allow AES 256. With Graphiant’s data assurance, users now have the ability to reroute around those countries to avoid any compliance issues.

Data assurance is also about security

The data assurance service benefits from integrated threat intelligence capabilities.

Graphiant processes information from approximately 250 million URLs and 800-900 million IPs, Raza said. Graphiant correlates the network traffic data with threat intelligence to identify potentially malicious connections, not just relying on static firewall rules. He also noted that Graphiant can provide a continuous feedback loop to the firewall systems to help optimize the rules based on the observed traffic patterns and risks.

“We can tell you exactly what every egress router in your infrastructure is seeing,” he said.

Stateless core network architecture is key

Underpinning the data assurance capabilities is Graphiant’s approach to network architecture.