If you’ve ever felt like your breach detection system is playing catch-up while threats sprint ahead—or worse, gets stuck because it can’t talk to the rest of your security stack—you’re going to love what’s new in BDS (Breach Detection System) 5.5.
Integrated Response with 3rd-Party Firewalls: Stop Threats Faster, Automatically
In cybersecurity, siloed tools are a major pain point. Integrated Response is all about breaking down those walls. You might have a Palo Alto at the perimeter, a FortiGate in the data center, and something else in a remote office. Manually logging into each firewall to block a malicious IP that BDS found is slow, tedious, and frankly, not scalable when every second counts. Without this integration, there’s a dangerous gap between detection and containment.
We’ve supercharged BDS 5.5’s ecosystem integration. Now, you can directly bind a BDS device to a blocking template and have it execute automated block/unblock commands on a range of major third-party firewalls. Think of it as giving your NDR solution hands—not just eyes. Now, when BDS spots something malicious, it can instantly tell your firewall to block it, no human intervention required. It drastically cuts down your Mean Time to Respond (MTTR). What used to take minutes of manual work now happens in seconds, automatically.
Deployment Support for Public Cloud Environments: Secure Your Cloud Workloads Seamlessly
As companies migrate workloads to the public cloud, traditional on-premise security tools start to struggle. The cloud environment is dynamic—resources spin up and down constantly, and you often lose the “full packet visibility” you had in your own data center. Network Detection and Response in the cloud requires solutions that can be deployed flexibly, scale elastically, and integrate with cloud-native networking—all while maintaining the same detection fidelity you’d expect on-prem.
BDS 5.5 now offers native deployment support across all major public cloud platforms, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Alibaba Cloud, and Tencent Cloud. Whether you’re running a hybrid environment, multi-cloud strategy, or fully cloud-native architecture, BDS can now be deployed wherever your workloads live. Deploying the same detection capabilities across on-prem and cloud environments means one console, one set of policies, unified visibility—no more security silos.
Jumbo Frame Support: Don’t Let Big Packets Hide Big Threats
Standard Ethernet frames max out at 1,500 bytes (MTU), but Jumbo Frames can go much larger—up to 9,000 bytes or more. By packing more data into each frame, you reduce the number of frames needed and cut down on header overhead, which improves throughput and efficiency. If your security tools aren’t built to handle Jumbo Frames, they might drop or truncate these oversized packets during inspection. That means threats hidden in large payloads—malware embedded in file transfers, data exfiltration disguised in legitimate traffic, or exploit code split across large packets.
BDS 5.5 now fully supports Jumbo Frames up to 9300 bytes. You can enable or disable Jumbo Frame processing per interface, and your MTU settings persist across reboots. More importantly, BDS doesn’t just pass through these frames—it deeply inspects them, just like any other packet. As a result, no more missed threats hiding in oversized packets. Your detection coverage stays complete, even in high-performance networks where Jumbo Frames are the norm.
By giving you Integrated Response for instant containment, Broader Cloud Deployment for multi-cloud visibility, and Jumbo Frame Support for non-stop, high-speed inspection, BDS 5.5 makes your job easier and your network safer. For more details, reach out to Hillstone Networks representative.
