100 Gbps line-rate monitoring. Passive deployment. Zero impact on production traffic. Built for carriers, federal SOCs, and environments where you need to see everything and intervene in nothing.
Book a Demo → See How Shield WorksFederal SOCs running monitor-only mandates. Carrier networks where intervention is forbidden. Compliance environments that need traffic logs without enforcement. Backbone circuits running at 100 Gbps where inline inspection adds latency you can't afford. Shield Sentinel handles all of it. Without inline risk. Without dropped packets. Without disrupting the network you've spent decades building.
100 Gbps bi-directional. Passive deployment. Full DNS and flow capture. CSV-ready for SIEM. Three Shield platforms enforce. One watches.
Built on eBPF and XDP. Carrier-grade visibility without the carrier-grade risk.
eBPF and XDP kernel-level packet processing. No sampling. No dropped packets. No performance hit on the network you're watching.
Port mirror or network TAP. Never inline. Never a bottleneck. Never a single point of failure. Watch the traffic without becoming part of it.
DNS queries and answers. Flow records for TCP, UDP, ICMP. PCAP at line rate. Export to Splunk, QRadar, Microsoft Sentinel, or whatever SIEM your team already uses.
What Sentinel actually does, and why carriers and federal SOCs are deploying it.
Shield Sentinel uses eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter) and XDP (eXpress Data Path) to process packets at kernel level. The same technology Cloudflare and Cilium use to handle millions of packets per second on commodity hardware. Deployed via port mirror or network TAP, it operates completely out-of-band. Your production traffic never touches Sentinel. Sentinel never adds latency. Sentinel never drops a packet. The network you're monitoring stays exactly as fast as it was before you plugged us in.
Every observed flow gets recorded. Every DNS query and response gets logged. Detailed PCAP at the full 100 Gbps rate. Real-time monitoring of TCP, UDP, and ICMP for anomalies, lateral movement, and policy violations. When the auditor asks what happened on the network three months ago, you don't say "we'll check the logs." You hand over the logs. Continuous traffic logs for audits, incident response, and compliance reporting. The receipts, archived.
CSV file output. Direct ingestion into Splunk, QRadar, Microsoft Sentinel, Elastic, Chronicle, or whatever else your team has standardized on. No proprietary format lock-in. No middleware tax. Sentinel produces telemetry. Your SIEM consumes it. The data lives where you already analyze it.
Three platforms enforce. One watches. They're designed to coexist.
| Shield Sentinel | Shield Enforcement Platforms | |
|---|---|---|
| Primary Function | Watch.Captures, decodes, and logs network traffic for visibility and forensics. | Block.Inspect every connection and block malicious or unknown ones in real time. |
| Deployment | Passive. Out-of-band.Port mirror or network TAP. Never inline. | Inline. Bi-directional.Sits in the data path. Decides on every connection. |
| Throughput | 100 Gbps bi-directional.Line-rate monitoring via eBPF/XDP. | 1 to 10 Gbps.Hardware and cloud platforms scaled per use case. |
| Threat Intelligence | Not integrated.Pure capture and logging. Telemetry flows to SIEM for downstream analysis. | Global Threat Engine.25 years of IP and DNS reputation. 8.5 billion combinations. |
| Management Console | Standalone.Operates independently. Outputs CSV. SIEM is the front-end. | Shield Command Hub.Unified visibility and management across OnPremise, Stratus, and Endpoint. |
| Best For | Carriers, federal SOCs, monitor-only mandates, audit and compliance environments, OT visibility without inline risk. | Enterprises, agencies, and partners who want active prevention at the connection layer. |
If blocking isn't on the table, monitoring should be. Run a Proof of Value and see what Shield Sentinel captures on your network in 30 days.