ME NETWORK MONITORING
Know what is on your network before an attacker does
Most breaches start with something nobody knew was reachable: a forgotten test port, a device someone plugged in, a service that came back after a reboot. ME Network Monitoring keeps a live picture of your network, watches how traffic actually behaves against your own baseline, and scans continuously for the weaknesses that make any of it exploitable.
What changes when the network stops being a guess
Three problems this removes permanently.
01
See everything, not just what is documented
Discovery runs continuously, so the inventory reflects reality rather than the last time someone updated a spreadsheet. A new device or a newly exposed port becomes an alert instead of a surprise during an audit.
02
Find the weakness before it is used
Scheduled scanning ranks findings by what is genuinely reachable and exploitable in your environment, with the fix stated — so remediation arrives as a short work list rather than a four-hundred-page PDF nobody opens.
03
Notice the traffic that does not fit
Analysis is measured against your own baseline. Data leaving at an hour when nothing runs, an internal host scanning its neighbours, a workstation talking to a country you do no business with — all visible without waiting for a signature.
What it catches early
Detection only helps if it happens before the damage. These are the signals the platform acts on, and most of them appear well before anything visible goes wrong.
- A port that was closed yesterday answering today.
- A device joining the network that has never been seen on it before.
- An internal host connecting to many others in sequence — lateral movement looks exactly like this.
- Outbound volume rising outside working hours with no scheduled job to explain it.
- A service downgrading to an older, weaker protocol version after a restart.
- Administrative protocols — RDP, SSH, database ports — reachable from outside the network.
- DNS queries to newly registered or known-malicious domains.
- A backup or replication job that has quietly stopped transferring.
- Certificates or credentials expiring on infrastructure nobody owns any more.
- A previously patched vulnerability reappearing on a host, meaning something rolled back.
How it works: defence in depth
Threats are stopped at every stage by multiple integrated layers. A single control that can be bypassed is not protection — layers are, because an attacker has to defeat all of them without tripping any.
Discovery
Continuous network and port scanning with service and version identification, so the asset inventory is derived from what is actually there rather than maintained by hand.
Baseline
Normal is learned per environment — which hosts talk to which, how much, and when — because a generic threshold either misses the real anomaly or buries you in false ones.
Traffic inspection and analysis
Flows are inspected for protocol misuse, tunnelling, internal scanning, exfiltration patterns and connections to known-bad infrastructure.
Vulnerability scanning
Authenticated and unauthenticated scans on a schedule, correlated with what is actually exposed — so a critical CVE on an unreachable service is not ranked above a medium one on your login page.
Alerting and escalation
Severity-ranked alerts naming the affected asset, the evidence and the recommended action, routed to a person inside an agreed response window.
Capabilities
Everything the platform covers, grouped by what it does.
Discovery and inventory
- Network and port scanning
- Service and version discovery
- Live asset inventory with change history
- New-device and new-service alerting
- External attack-surface mapping
- Internal segmentation checks between zones
Traffic inspection and analysis
- Flow analysis against a learned baseline
- Protocol misuse and tunnelling detection
- Lateral-movement and internal-scan detection
- Data-exfiltration pattern detection
- DNS monitoring for malicious and newly registered domains
- Bandwidth, saturation and link-health monitoring
Vulnerability scanning
- Scheduled authenticated and unauthenticated scans
- Severity ranking weighted by real exposure
- Misconfiguration and weak-cipher detection
- Default and shared-credential detection
- Patch-level drift reporting across hosts
- Automatic re-scan after remediation, to prove the fix
Reporting
- Findings with the fix, ranked by exploitability
- Trend reporting, so posture is visible over months rather than moments
- Audit-ready evidence for compliance work
- Named escalation path and agreed response window
What this does and does not promise
- Scanning finds what is reachable and known. A vulnerability disclosed tomorrow is not in today's scan, which is why continuous discovery and traffic analysis run alongside scanning rather than instead of it.
- We scan only networks you own or have written authorisation to assess, and scope is agreed in writing before the first scan.
- Intrusive testing can affect fragile devices. Anything carrying that risk is identified, scheduled and run in a window you choose.
- Detection reduces dwell time. It does not replace patching, segmentation and access control — and we will tell you when the honest answer is a fix rather than more monitoring.
Questions we get asked
- How often does it scan?
- Discovery and traffic analysis are continuous. Vulnerability scans run on an agreed schedule — commonly weekly for external and monthly for internal — plus an immediate scan when a significant vulnerability is disclosed for something you run.
- Will scanning break anything?
- Standard discovery and vulnerability scanning are non-intrusive and safe against production. Anything that could affect a fragile device is flagged in advance, scheduled, and run only with your agreement.
- Do we need to install software everywhere?
- No. Usually one collector inside the network plus read-only credentials for authenticated scanning. Nothing is installed on every endpoint.
- Can you cover cloud as well as on-premise?
- Yes, and they are treated as one estate. That is the only way a segmentation problem between your cloud accounts and your office network becomes visible at all.
- We already run an annual audit. Why continuous?
- Because an annual audit describes one day. Ports open, devices join, services restart with weaker settings and staff leave with access — usually within weeks of the report being signed off.
Ready to experience automated security?
Tell us what you are running and what worries you about it. You will get a straight answer on what monitoring would actually catch, what it would not, and what it takes to set up — before any commitment.
Talk to our security team