GTT Communications Inc., a leading networking and security as a service provider for multinational organizations, announced the launch of GTT Defense Halo, an AI-native network defense platform built for a threat landscape that no longer moves at human speed. The patent-pending solution is built on GTT’s AI factory and deployed as a dedicated instance for each customer.

GTT Defense Halo changes the paradigm of network defense in three fundamental ways:

• First, it proactively identifies vulnerabilities and policy gaps across the customer's estate and provides AI-generated remediation plans in real time before attackers can discover them.
• Second, it identifies behavioral anomalies specific to a customer’s network and determines in real time whether they are genuine security threats. Genuine security threats can then be remediated at network speed.
• Third, it generates a stateful, real-time model of a customer’s network, visualizing every host-to-host connection and communication, enabling real-time threat hunting and vulnerability exposure assessment.

Proactively detecting and responding to vulnerabilities and security threats at network speed is now a foundational requirement for cybersecurity in the AI era. This reality was clearly communicated in an open letter published in late August that has been signed by more than 100 technology, cybersecurity and financial services companies, warning that AI-enabled cyberattacks will become far more widespread and sophisticated and that defenders have a narrow window to prepare.

"Every security leader I speak with is fighting the same battle against the clock. AI-powered cyber threats complicate and intensify that battle," said Fletcher Keister, Chief Product and Technology Officer, GTT. "Time is the enemy because time equals risk. The longer a vulnerability remains undetected in an enterprise network, the greater the risk of breach and exploitation. We built GTT Defense Halo to combat this risk and help our customers understand and act quickly on previously undetected vulnerabilities in their network.”

GTT Defense Halo is powered by GTT’s AI factory, which is embedded in its global Tier 1 backbone and hosted in the United States, United Kingdom and European Union, to support enterprise scale and sovereignty requirements.

"Most existing security products analyze traffic after it has been collected and normalized, which builds latency, cost and blind spots into the architecture,” said Amy DeCarlo, Principal Analyst, Security and Data Center Services, GlobalData. “Integrating GTT Defense Halo into your security architecture eliminates these blind spots. GTT is doing something architecturally different by placing AI inference inside the network and AI factories it owns, which marks a significant step in GTT's evolution as a security provider. Combined with customer-isolated models and in-region data residency, GTT Defense Halo gives enterprises a defense platform that endpoint-centric and log-centric platforms are not positioned to match.”