Security that does not depend on who is on shift.
PacketViper is an agentless network layer control that enforces on the first hostile packet, rotates the surface attackers map, and does not require your people to notice anything.
Your stack is built to notice. It is not built to stop.
Banks and large IT environments have spent a decade buying detection, training people, and staffing SOCs. Breaches still happen the same way: initial access, internal reconnaissance, lateral movement, then the alert that someone gets to after the damage.
Three reasons that does not change with the next tool.
Detection produces alerts
An alert is a request for a human to act. The time between the alert and the action is attacker time.
Firewalls stop the packet and forget the actor
The attacker keeps probing until they find the rule exception. Every rule base has one.
Training assumes the right call every time
The person on shift will not make it every time. That is not a training problem, it is a design problem.
“The firewall prevents the packet. It ignores the attempt. The attempt is the signal.”
Francesco Trama, Founder and CEO, PacketViper
Attackers are increasingly automated. An autonomous agent does not get tired, does not skip steps, and does not care that you have a SOC. It maps your network and moves. The question is whether your network is mappable.
Four things, all at the network layer, none of them waiting on a person.
Enforce on the first hostile packet
Every network has address space nothing legitimate lives in. In a typical /24, most of it. PacketViper knows which addresses are live from ARP and traffic. Anything that touches an address that should not exist is not a false positive candidate. It is reconnaissance. The source is enforced inline on that packet. No decoy interaction required, no analyst review, no ticket.
Rotate the surface the attacker is mapping
Automated Moving Target Defense changes the perceived network surface on a schedule. The map an attacker builds in the first hour is wrong in the second. Stale intelligence walks into a sensor. Rotation happens without touching your real assets and without a change request.
Act on the attempt, not just the packet
A blocked packet tells the attacker to try a different one. PacketViper treats the attempt as the event and closes the actor at the source or the session, so the second attempt does not happen.
Stay independent of the things that fail
No agent on the endpoint. No dependency on the SOC seeing an alert in time. No dependency on a vendor cloud being right. No dependency on the operator on shift. The control sits outside the hands of the people who make the mistakes.
Tested against the thing you are actually worried about.
AI agent containment, March 2026
An autonomous attack agent using AutoGen orchestration and a GPT-4o model was run against a PacketViper protected segment in four independent runs. In every run the agent was stopped at the first sensor it touched. Zero hosts reached. Read the containment results.
Deployment record
Thousands of installations and deployments over 15 years. No breach of a PacketViper protected segment in the installed base.
Published research
Denying the World Model: Automated Moving Target Defense as an Architectural Countermeasure to Autonomous AI Agents. DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21347479. All PacketViper preprints are collected on the research page.
See it. Prove it. Keep it.
The control is the reason PacketViper exists. Everything else is there so you can see what it did, prove it to an examiner, and keep the record where you own it.
Asset context
Every device on the wire is learned, placed in a zone and location, and tracked over time. Inventory is a side effect of running the control, not a prerequisite. No discovery scan, no agent, no spreadsheet.
Live map
Flows by location, group, and device. Zoom sets the scope: country, WAN, site, LAN. Every node and every PacketViper is clickable to its traffic logs. Federated nodes across sites appear on one map. Nothing on the map is fabricated. Every placement traces to a real address or a real GeoIP hit.
Compliance mapping
30 frameworks and 692 controls mapped. The evidence behind each mapped control is an enforcement record.
Long term archiving
Scheduled export, hourly, daily, weekly, or an operator window, in OCSF 1.9.0, Parquet or NDJSON, to S3 compatible storage, a mounted volume or removable media, or on appliance staging. Resumable, chunked, tamper evident audit trail, and resource ceilings so export never competes with protection. Your data exports. PacketViper threat intel, licensed data, and defensive configuration never do.
Filtering and reach
DNS and application filtering at the same layer. Threat Reach shows which internal assets an external actor touched and which external actors an internal asset reached.
Analytics and federation
Built in analytics, SIEM ingest via OCSF 1.9.0 or syslog over TCP or TLS, and executive dashboards for board reporting. Multiple nodes across sites and regions under one view.
What it costs you to run. Almost nothing.
Sizing. Runs on the PV Edge i3, i5, and i7 DIN rail units, the PV150 and PV240 in 1U, and the PV350 in 2U. Also deploys as a virtual machine on VMware or Proxmox, and on bare metal.
Maps to what your examiner asks about.
PacketViper is a control, not a certification. It supports your program and produces evidence for it.
Segmentation and lateral movement
Supports the network segmentation and lateral movement control objectives in the FFIEC IT Handbook, PCI DSS segmentation requirements, and the GLBA Safeguards Rule.
Detection and response timing
Provides evidence for the detection and response timing expectations in NYDFS Part 500 and the FFIEC Cybersecurity Assessment Tool domains.
Evidence of enforcement, not just logging
Every enforcement event is a record with source, target, and action. Examiners get proof a control acted, not proof a dashboard existed.
Independence from personnel
A control that does not depend on staff judgment is a stronger answer to the human factors line of questioning than another training completion report.
Where to put it first.
Integration. OCSF export to your data lake or SIEM, syslog over TCP or TLS, and a REST API over HTTPS with API key authentication scoped to a source CIDR.
Coexistence. Works alongside your existing NGFW, EDR, and NDR. It is not a replacement for those. It is the layer that acts when they have not yet.
What it does not do.
Off network attacks
It does not protect against an attacker who never touches the network, such as USB, physical console, or serial access.
Patching
It does not replace patching. Remediation is still necessary. It buys the time patching takes.
Your SIEM and SOC
It does not replace them. It reduces what they have to catch.
Human configuration
Allowlists and policy are still configured by humans. The design minimizes how much of that there is. It does not eliminate it.
Frequently asked
No. PacketViper is agentless. It deploys inline on the wire as a bridge and installs nothing on servers, workstations, or ATMs.
A firewall stops the packet and forgets the actor, so the attacker keeps probing until they find a rule exception. PacketViper treats the attempt as the event and closes the actor at the source or the session. It also runs without a rule base, because live hosts are learned from ARP and traffic and everything else is dark by definition.
No product makes an institution compliant. PacketViper is a control that supports segmentation, lateral movement, and detection and response timing objectives, and produces an enforcement record as evidence for them.
In four independent runs in March 2026, an autonomous attack agent using AutoGen orchestration and a GPT-4o model was stopped at the first sensor it touched. Zero hosts were reached.
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