ExtraHop Networks Inc. aims to ensure modern cyber resilience does not neglect network performance management. The company’s RevealX platform, which monitors network performance and is part of its series of network detection and response solutions, is tailored to modern cloud infrastructure.

“As we’ve evolved to a hybrid cloud, multicloud world, the [ExtraHop] architecture lended itself to that scale-out,” said Rob Greer (pictured), chief executive officer of ExtraHop. “If you look at our RevealX platform, it can be placed in many different places, physically on physical appliances, on virtual appliances. That vision of thinking about seeing the network wherever it is, whether you control the network or don’t, is the secret sauce.”

Greer spoke with theCUBE’s John Furrier for the Tech Innovation CUBEd Awards 2025 interview series, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed what modern NDR looks like and the impact of generative artificial intelligence on cybersecurity.

Monitoring network performance in the hybrid era

Modern NDR is a combination of network performance management, intrusion detection and packet forensics, according to Greer. The company has innovated with multi-featured sensors, offering clients a 360-degree view across their hybrid networks.

“We get real-time information,” Greer explained. “By not only seeing that information in a single pass, we also are able to record it at scale across the entire enterprise. What that means is if you do see a compromise or some sort of breach, potentially you can now go back in time and be able to see what is the blast radius of that.”

ExtraHop’s technology complements the endpoint detection and response offered by cybersecurity firms such as CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. by covering the network detection piece. The company has seen great success in the past year, with more than $300 million in bookings and $41 million plus annual recurring revenue customers.

“The biggest trend we saw last year was consolidation of what I would call traditional legacy point product capabilities and moving to our platform,” Greer said. “Some of them were existing network performance management with us for years … but, there’s several of them that were not existing ExtraHop customers where we just went in with a security value proposition.”

The company, which is a recipient of a CUBEd award for “Most Innovative Cyer-resilience Solution,” is currently enhancing its RevealX platform with gen AI by allowing customers to input natural language queries. ExtraHop offers unparalleled performance compared to other competitors, especially when it comes to east-west traffic, according to Greer.

“You can’t separate network operations data from security data,” he said. “The reality is there’s certain behaviors where certain devices or hosts are communicating more frequently than maybe normal, or there’s so much traffic that’s being sent on an egress or ingress that you’re not normally expecting, and to be able to really bring that together and correlate that, you really need to understand performance.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE Research’s coverage for the Tech Innovation CUBEd Awards 2025 interview series:

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