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Stop Malware Where It Actually Lives:
On the Wire

Catch It at Delivery, Not After Detonation

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The Challenge

Malware Doesn't Announce Itself

Most malware protection tools react after a file lands on an endpoint. By then, the payload may have already executed, called home, or started moving. Fileless payloads, living-off-the-land binaries, and encrypted command-and-control channels are built to slip past signature checks entirely.

Malware is seen first on the network, not the endpoint. Delivery, callbacks, and lateral movement all leave a trace in network traffic long before an endpoint agent flags a file. Without deep, real-time inspection of that traffic, including encrypted sessions, organizations end up detecting malware only after the damage is done.

Our solution

Network-Based Malware Detection and Response with Fidelis Network®

Fidelis Network® is built to be the primary detection engine for malware, not a downstream consumer of someone else’s alerts. It inspects raw traffic directly, where malware actually operates.

  • Detection at the Point of Delivery: Deep Session Inspection® unpacks nested, compressed, and obfuscated files across all ports and protocols, catching malware before it executes.
  • Command-and-Control Disruption: Identify and disrupt C2 callbacks and data exfiltration attempts in real time. Fidelis Network® profiles TLS encrypted traffic to detect hidden threats that standard inspection misses.
  • Lateral Movement Detection: Monitor east-west traffic to catch malware spreading internally, not just at the perimeter.
  • Automated Malware Analysis: Built-in sandboxing detonates suspicious files and maps behavior to MITRE ATT&CK.
  • Proactive Malware Hunting: Retrospective metadata analysis and anomaly detection help analysts hunt malware that evaded detection at delivery.
  • Active Defense with Deception: Fidelis Deception® lures malware toward decoys that mirror real assets, exposing intent without risking production systems.

When malware protection needs to scale beyond the network, such as unifying detection across endpoint, network, and cloud, Fidelis Elevate® brings Network, Endpoint, and Deception together for correlated detection and orchestrated response.

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Malware Security

Why Now?

Malware is Evolving Faster than Signature-based Defenses can Keep Up

82%

of detections in 2025 involved no traditional malware at all, relying on living-off-the-land techniques that slip past file-based detection.

500,000

malicious files were detected per day on average between November 2024 and October 2025, a 7% rise over the prior period.

70%

of serious malware attacks in 2026 rely on fileless techniques that never touch disk or trigger a signature match.

Is Your Network Showing You Where Malware Actually Hides?

Fidelis Network® was built to find it at delivery, not after execution.

  • Deep Session Inspection coverage across all ports and protocols
  • Embedded sandboxing with MITRE ATT&CK mapping
  • Deception technology for post-perimeter malware exposure
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