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VIAVI Launches Observer Threat Forensics for NetSecOps with Advanced Retrospective Analysis
Creates unified view of the organization, eliminates noise or data gaps, and allows retrospective analysis across network, application and user domains
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[{"type":"text","content":"Creates unified view of the organization, eliminates noise or data gaps, and allows retrospective analysis across network, application and user domains CHANDLER, Ariz., March 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- VIAVI Solutions Inc. (VIAVI) (NASDAQ: VIAV) has announced its Observer Threat Forensics solution with an advanced retrospective analysis capability. Observer Threat Forensics will be showcased at VIAVI's booth N5484 at the RSA Conference from March 23-26 in San Francisco, CA.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \nThe industry is shifting away from siloed network and security operations teams to a converged NetSecOps structure to close critical gaps in incident responses and strengthen resilience. Designed to increase visibility across operational teams, Observer Threat Forensics helps organizations identify potential vulnerabilities including post-detection analyses of a breach, the intrusion point and the exposed data.Observer Threat Forensics is built on VIAVI's heritage in network operation management, combined with secure network infrastructure and threat intelligence powered by CrowdStrike®. It brings together packet insights, flow data and log telemetry into a unified NetSecOps workflow, as well as retrospective forensic capability. Additionally, the platform unites site, application, network and UC views into a simple, easy-to-read user dashboard that gives a complete view of the organization's end-user experience, as well as performance issues and their root causes.In the State of the Network study from VIAVI, 79 percent of the 750 responding CIOs and CISOs wanted convergence, believing the existing siloed model was ill-suited to modern networks and lacked key visibility, which could introduce risk. However, just 27 percent of the organizations surveyed have started to make the move.\"That two-thirds of those wanting to switch still have not done so highlights the challenges organizations face when transitioning to a converged operational framework,\" said Chris Labac, Vice President and General Manager, Network Performance and Threat Solutions, VIAVI. \"VIAVI's Observer Threat Forensics leverages common datasets already collected for our network performance monitoring platform. Because the network traffic, enriched flow data, and metadata are already there, NetOps and SecOps can use the same data to gain performance insights and investigat...