Red Piranha is Australia’s premier cybersecurity technology provider, recognized for developing and manufacturing cutting-edge security solutions. As an official member of Team Defense Australia, the company specializes in advanced cybersecurity technologies designed to safeguard organizations against evolving threats. Leveraging automation, innovative technology, and expert personnel, Red Piranha delivers robust, scalable security solutions tailored to businesses of all sizes, ensuring comprehensive information protection in an increasingly complex digital landscape.
Organizations today face an escalating surge of cyber threats, with ransomware and advanced persistent threats (APTs) posing significant risks. While ransomware remains one of the most disruptive attack tactics, APTs can infiltrate networks and remain undetected for days, reducing attacker dwell time critical. At the same time, many businesses struggle with a fragmented security stack, where siloed tools create blind spots, operational inefficiencies, and alert fatigue.
Managing numerous disconnected security products increases complexity, straining already limited staff. As traditional perimeter defenses prove insufficient, Zero Trust strategies requiring continuous verification of users and devices have become essential for securing modern hybrid environments. Organizations are now realizing that complexity is the enemy of security, and a unified security platform is necessary to enhance visibility, streamline operations, and improve threat response agility.
Crystal Eye: A Unified Security Platform for Advanced Threat Defense
Red Piranha’s Crystal Eye Unified Security Platform is designed to address these challenges by consolidating multiple security capabilities into a single, integrated solution. Instead of relying on separate, siloed tools, Crystal Eye brings together:
- Threat Detection, Investigation, and Response (TDIR) – a comprehensive solution capability that correlates events across endpoints, networks, and cloud to detect threats with high fidelity and enable rapid response.
- Network Detection and Response (NDR) – deep network traffic analysis using machine learning, behavior analytics, and rule-based matching to spot anomalies (e.g. lateral movement or covert communications) in real time. Crystal Eye’s NDR monitors east-west traffic inside the network, catching stealthy tactics that traditional perimeter tools might miss.
- Secure Remote Access via WireGuard VPN (with Entra ID SSO) – a modern VPN integrated into Crystal Eye that leverages WireGuard’s fast, strong encryption and ties into Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) for Single Sign-On. This ensures that remote connections are authenticated with the same identity controls as your corporate logins, supporting a Zero Trust model where every user and device must be verified. It provides high-performance, easy-to-manage remote access without the weaknesses and overhead of legacy VPNs.
- Declarative Authorization Service (DAS) – a policy-driven access control system powered by Open Policy Agent (OPA) and integrated with Crystal Eye. DAS allows granular and Zero Trust access policies to be enforced across applications and APIs. Security teams can define which services or data each user or device is allowed to access (“allow on need basis”), dramatically limiting an attacker’s ability to move through the network. By integrating with identity directories (e.g. Azure AD), DAS ensures only authorized, context-validated access to sensitive resources, effectively micro-segmenting the environment.
- Secure Web Gateway: Crystal Eye’s integrated Secure Web Gateway (SWG) enhances Zero Trust enforcement by applying granular, policy-driven control over web traffic. It enables advanced web filtering, anti-malware scanning, anti-phishing protection, and application/protocol filtering across both HTTP and HTTPS, all managed centrally. Aligned with ISO 27002:2022 (Control 8.23) and supporting multi-tenant deployments, the SWG enforces web-layer security policies by zone, reducing the attack surface and blocking malicious content at the perimeter. Combined with DAS, TDIR, NDR, and WireGuard VPN, it completes Crystal Eye’s full-spectrum threat detection and access control, securing users and services from the edge to the core.
All these capabilities operate through one unified platform and console. Crystal Eye layers multiple defense functions to provide a holistic, defense-in-depth strategy. It inspects all network traffic and applies numerous controls (firewall, IDPS, content filtering, etc.), while correlating insights across domains. In practice, Crystal Eye becomes the “center point” of the network’s security, embedding protection into the very fabric of the infrastructure.
This unified design means security teams manage one system with a single pane of glass instead of juggling separate dashboards for SIEM, NDR, VPN, etc. The platform is available as on-premises appliances or cloud-deployed, including multi-tenant options for MSSPs, but all with the same integrated functionality ([ Red Piranha unveils the next evolution in multi-tenant Crystal Eye Cloud SASE deployment
Synergy of Integrated Capabilities for Real-Time Defense and Zero Trust
The real power of Crystal Eye’s unified approach comes from how these components work together to counter threats in real time. By having TDIR, NDR, Wireguard SSO, and DAS under one roof, Crystal Eye creates a force multiplier effect that siloed tools cannot match:
Comprehensive Visibility and Threat Detection
Crystal Eye correlates data across endpoints, network traffic, and users to detect threats faster and more accurately. For example, an unusual network beacon detected by NDR can be immediately correlated with endpoint logs or user accounts via TDIR, painting a full picture of the incident. The platform ingests high-fidelity threat intelligence feeds and has over 70,000 up-to-date IDS/IPS rules, allowing it to identify known malware, C2 callbacks (e.g. Cobalt Strike), and emerging attack patterns across the kill chain.
This integrated visibility gives security teams up to 10x more insight to catch advanced threats like APTs early. Even stealthy tactics are uncovered through behavioral analytics and automated threat hunting. Crystal Eye’s on-demand threat hunting searches across network packets (with integrated PCAP analysis) and endpoints for signs of hidden attackers, helping to expose embedded threats and reduce dwell time
Real-Time Investigation and Response
When an alert fires, analysts can pivot and investigate within the same platform – no need to swivel-chair between separate tools. Crystal Eye’s TDIR capabilities enable analysts to drill down from a high-level incident view to raw packet captures or log events in a few clicks. Because the system is unified, it can also automate containment actions across different layers.
For instance, if malware is detected on a host, Crystal Eye can simultaneously isolate that host at the network level (via firewall/IDPS rules), cut off its VPN access, and block the malicious domain for all users. This tight integration with SOAR (Security Orchestration, Automation and Response) means faster response and containment, often without manual intervention.
Crystal Eye can even automatically enforce firewall or DAS policies as part of incident response – for example, dynamically tightening access controls if suspicious behavior is observed. Such human-machine teaming improves incident response speed and precision, ensuring critical alerts are addressed before they escalate.
Unified Visibility and Access Control (Zero Trust)
Crystal Eye’s integration of identity and network security translates Zero Trust principles into practice. Every remote user session coming through the WireGuard VPN is authenticated via SSO and subject to the same security monitoring. The platform can see who the user is (from Entra ID), what device they’re on, and what they’re trying to do. DAS then enforces fine-grained permissions – even if a user’s credentials were stolen, an attacker would be severely limited in what they can access, thanks to “allow on need” policies and micro-segmentation.
Meanwhile, NDR watches the internal traffic for any anomalous movements, so if a breach occurs, lateral movement attempts are flagged by their abnormal behavior or blocked by policy. This synergy provides multiple layers of defense: strong identity verification at the point of access, and continuous monitoring of activity post-access. It helps organizations “achieve the aspirations of Zero Trust” by combining granular access management with full-spectrum threat visibility. In essence, Crystal Eye not only keeps attackers out, but also quickly spots and contains any that get in, limiting their reach.
By blending these capabilities, Crystal Eye enables true end-to-end Threat Detection, Investigation, and Response in one ecosystem. It breaks down the traditional silos between network security, endpoint security, and identity management. The result is that security teams can detect threats at any stage (initial compromise, command-and-control, lateral movement, etc.) and immediately take action across all vectors from the same console. This unified situational awareness is critical for combatting modern multi-faceted attacks.
Augmented Security Operations with Crystal Eye MDR
While Crystal Eye delivers advanced detection and response capabilities natively, many organizations still face operational challenges in running a full-scale 24/7 Security Operations Center (SOC). To address this, Red Piranha offers Managed Detection and Response (MDR) as a native, plug-and-play extension of the Crystal Eye Unified Security Platform transforming the solution into a fully augmented security operations capability without additional integration overhead.
Red Piranha’s MDR service is purpose-built for businesses that lack the internal capacity to manage continuous threat monitoring, triage, and incident response. It provides a full-spectrum, ISO 27001-certified SOC-as-a-Service that leverages Crystal Eye’s integrated telemetry stack across TDIR, NDR, endpoint, and access control layers. This approach enables machine-speed detection, expert analyst oversight, and automated containment in one seamless workflow.
Core MDR functions include:
- 24/7 threat monitoring, powered by Crystal Eye’s real-time telemetry ingestion and analytics.
- Rapid incident response and containment, including endpoint isolation, credential revocation, and lateral movement blocking.
- Digital forensics and investigation (DFIR) with access to full packet captures, log correlation, and threat intel enrichment.
- Proactive threat hunting to uncover stealthy activity missed by signature-based detection.
- SOAR-powered response automation, enabling scalable mitigation actions based on validated alerts.
- Integrated threat intelligence correlation, reducing noise and highlighting real-world IOCs.
Unlike traditional MSSPs that offer surface-level monitoring, Red Piranha’s MDR service provides deep, contextual visibility across east-west traffic, identity activity, and cloud applications. It is designed for immediate deployment, with no third-party licenses required and tailored detection rules aligned to your environment’s risk profile.
The result is faster detection, lower dwell time, and reduced risk exposure—often cutting incident containment time from months to minutes. MDR also enhances audit readiness with centralized logging, reporting, and forensic traceability. By combining Crystal Eye’s automation with around-the-clock expert oversight, organizations achieve a strategic security advantage without the cost and complexity of building their own SOC.
Get in touch with Red Piranha today to discuss the cybersecurity solution for your business’s needs and budget.
About the Author
Adam Bennett is a globally recognised cybersecurity leader, innovator, ethical hacker, and qualified industry expert. As the Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Adam has led Red Piranha from its conception in 2013 to become one of Australia’s renowned and awarded cybersecurity organisations. Adam’s passion and driving vision is to provide comprehensive cybersecurity protection from the growing threat landscape by offering enterprise-grade cybersecurity solutions to businesses of all sizes.
A prolific contributor to the IT and Developer industry, Adam is a professional presenter and industry advocate, actively participating within the cybersecurity community industry since the late 1980s. He has authored and contributed to multiple industry papers, including being published with NATO cyber security research, industry research with INTEL and professional blogs, podcasts, amongst other publications.
Years Experience 30+
Services Expertise Professional Management, Security and Risk Management, Project Management
Region APAC
Qualifications ISACA CDPSE, CISSP, GIAC, LFS101, LFS201, CCNA, CEH, MAS S69 Big Data and Social Physicals Mathematics and Comp Science MIT, Cert Cyberwar, Surveillance and Security, PMP, MVA Defence in Depth Windows 8.1 Security, MVA Powershell 3.0, Cert Training Officer, PUACOM001C, PUAOPE002B, Cert 1 & 2 CISCO, AMTC IPV6, ITILv2, ITILv3, CECE, CEE 1 & 2, RPCSAT
Professional Affiliations ISACA, ACS, ASIA, PMI, DFA, EFA
Adam can be reached online at [email protected] and at our company website https://www.redpiranha.net
