As wireless technologies become integral to modern organizations, they introduce significant vulnerabilities. Sensitive data can be inadvertently or intentionally transmitted through wireless devices, leading to breaches that compromise both security and regulatory compliance. Personal devices, IoT devices, and rogue wireless networks pose significant risks, often operating unnoticed.
Bastille Networks delivers a comprehensive wireless threat detection solution that enables organizations to monitor, detect, and prevent unauthorized or accidental wireless transmissions of sensitive information. Bastille ensures that organizations can protect their data from wireless threats by providing complete visibility across the Radio Frequency (RF) spectrum used for wireless communications.
The Challenge
Unauthorized or inadvertent wireless disclosures can arise from several scenarios, each of which can have severe consequences for an organization:
- Rogue Devices: Unauthorized wireless devices (including personal devices) that connect to a network without detection, enabling the transmission of sensitive information.
- Inadvertent Data Leaks: Legitimate devices may unintentionally broadcast sensitive information over unsecured wireless networks due to misconfiguration or outdated security settings.
- Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Risks: Personal smartphones, tablets, and laptops brought into the workplace may transmit data over unmonitored or unsecured wireless channels.
- Unsecured IoT Devices: IoT devices, which are often not designed with robust security features, can become weak points in an organization’s security posture, leaking sensitive information over unsecured wireless networks.
- Rogue Wireless Networks: Unauthorized wireless access points set up by malicious actors (or through user error) can capture and transmit sensitive data from connected devices.
Failure to detect and address these threats leads to data breaches, regulatory violations (HIPAA, GDPR, PCI-DSS), reputational harm, and financial penalties.
Our Wireless Airspace Defense Solution
Bastille Networks delivers an end-to-end solution to mitigate the risk of unauthorized or inadvertent data disclosure through wireless channels. By continuously monitoring the entire wireless spectrum, Bastille identifies and mitigates wireless threats in real time, providing detailed forensic data and automated responses.
Comprehensive Wireless Spectrum Monitoring
Bastille’s platform monitors all wireless transmissions continuously within an organization’s environment, providing complete visibility into all wireless devices and their activity. This function includes a range of wireless protocols, such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Zigbee, cellular signals, and many more.
Features
- Real-Time Monitoring: Continuous scanning of the wireless spectrum, including licensed and unlicensed bands, ensures no device goes undetected.
- Wireless Protocol Coverage: Monitors a wide range of wireless protocols (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Zigbee, cellular, etc.), allowing organizations to secure all potential points of wireless exposure.
Benefits
- Comprehensive visibility into all wireless activity, including personal devices, rogue access points, and misconfigured corporate devices
- Identification of unauthorized wireless activity before it leads to data leaks
Rogue Device Detection and Prevention
Bastille’s solution automatically identifies rogue devices attempting to connect to the network or transmit data without authorization. The system continuously tracks devices entering and leaving the wireless environment, allowing for the immediate detection of unauthorized or suspicious devices.
Features
- Device Discovery: Detects all wireless devices within a specified range, identifying authorized and rogue devices
- Real-Time Detections: Provides visibility to security teams for rogue wireless devices, enabling immediate response
Benefits
- Ensures that no rogue device can connect to the network without detection.
- Rapid identification of unauthorized devices that may attempt to steal or transmit sensitive information.
Inadvertent Data Leak Prevention
Even legitimate devices can become a source of unintentional data leaks. Bastille’s solution detects misconfigured devices that may be unintentionally transmitting data over unsecured channels. The system identifies unusual behavior, such as devices connecting to unauthorized networks or broadcasting sensitive information over insecure wireless connections.
Features
- Configuration Monitoring: Monitors device configurations to detect settings that may allow inadvertent wireless transmissions
- Behavioral Analysis: Analyzes device behavior to identify abnormal wireless activity, such as data broadcasted on unauthorized frequencies or channels
Benefits
- Early detection of devices that are unintentionally leaking sensitive data
- Immediate detection for security teams to apply corrective actions, stopping data leaks before they result in breaches
Forensic Support for Investigation and Reporting
Bastille provides detailed forensic data for investigations when detecting a wireless threat or potential data leak. Security teams can trace the origin of the transmission and identify the device responsible. Bastille’s geolocation capabilities allow organizations to locate and remove rogue devices quickly.
Features
- Forensic Data Logging: Logs all wireless activity for post-incident investigation, including timestamps, device details, and transmission specifics
- Geolocation Capabilities: Pinpoints the physical location of rogue or misconfigured devices within a facility
- Compliance Reporting: Provides detailed reports demonstrating compliance with regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, GDPR, and PCI-DSS.
Benefits
- Enables in-depth investigation of wireless security incidents, helping teams resolve issues quickly and accurately.
- Facilitates rapid mitigation by locating rogue devices, enabling security personnel to take immediate action.
- Supports compliance efforts by providing detailed, auditable reports on wireless activity and incidents.
Real-Time Response and Mitigation
Bastille’s solution integrates with existing security infrastructure, including SIEM platforms, enabling automated, real-time responses to wireless threats. When a suspicious device or data leak is detected, Bastille can block the device automatically, quarantine the network segment, or trigger custom security workflows.
Features
- Automated Response: Customizable response workflows enable automated device blocking, network isolation, and other actions to prevent data leaks in real time
- SIEM Integration: Seamless integration with SIEM tools for centralized incident management, enabling fast response and coordination across security teams
Benefits
- Real-time threat mitigation reduces the window of exposure for potential data leaks.
- Automated responses can neutralize wireless threats before they escalate into full-blown security incidents.
- Integration with existing security platforms streamlines incident response and management.
Bastille Networks Wireless Airspace Defense
Bastille provides you with the following benefits:
- Complete Wireless Visibility: Full-spectrum monitoring across all wireless devices and protocols, providing real-time awareness of all activity in the wireless environment
- Proactive Threat Detection: Detects and prevents unauthorized or inadvertent wireless disclosures before they become full-scale data breaches
- Comprehensive Forensic Capabilities: Provides security teams with the data they need to investigate, trace, and mitigate wireless threats
- Real-Time Response and Automated Mitigation: Enables fast, automated responses to wireless threats, ensuring real-time prevention of data leaks
- Regulatory Compliance: Helps organizations meet regulatory requirements related to wireless security, ensuring compliance with laws like HIPAA, GDPR, and PCI-DSS
Applicable Environments
Bastille’s solution is critical for industries and environments where the risk of wireless data disclosure is high:
- Corporate Offices: Protecting confidential business data, intellectual property, and trade secrets from wireless threats.
- Data Centers: Ensuring wireless security for cloud, colocation, and corporate data centers to prevent customer and operational data leaks.
- Government & Military: Securing sensitive government and military information from unauthorized wireless transmissions.
- Healthcare: Protecting patient data from unauthorized disclosure, ensuring compliance with HIPAA and other healthcare regulations.
- Financial Institutions: Preventing the exposure of customer data, financial records, and proprietary trading information over wireless networks.
Why Choose Bastille Networks?
Bastille Networks offers a comprehensive, real-time solution for monitoring and securing the entire wireless spectrum. With advanced detection, investigation, and mitigation capabilities, Bastille ensures organizations can prevent unauthorized or accidental wireless transmissions of sensitive information. Whether protecting corporate environments, data centers, or high-security facilities, Bastille delivers the tools needed to safeguard wireless communications.
For more information, contact us to learn how our solution can safeguard organizations from wireless-based data disclosure threats.
