LinkShadow Intelligent NDR
See inside the network. Attackers move east-west after a foothold — LinkShadow Intelligent NDR inspects mirrored traffic to surface the lateral movement, beaconing and data staging that never crosses your perimeter — with a Master that can stay on-premises.
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The LinkShadow platform family
This page covers Intelligent NDR — the flagship. The rest of the platform:
Quick facts
30-second orientation- Product
- Intelligent NDR — the flagship
- What it does
- Detects lateral movement inside the network
- How
- Deep packet inspection + behavioural analytics
- Architecture
- Sensors + Master (on-prem, cloud or hybrid)
- Gartner 2026
- VISIONARIES on the MQ for NDR — not a Leader
- Enforcement
- None — it detects; a firewall enforces
- India residency
- Not offered — use the on-prem Master instead
- Pricing
- Quote-only — no published price
- In India via
- TechBag — INR/GST, scoping and support
Understand network detection and response before you buy it
Most product pages skip this. We start here — so you buy a capability, not a buzzword.
What is LinkShadow Intelligent NDR?
Detection on traffic inside your network — sensors inspect mirrored traffic with deep packet inspection and behavioural analytics to surface lateral movement, C2 beaconing and data staging that never crosses the perimeter, so a firewall never sees it.
Perimeter inspection vs east-west detection — the honest table
What consolidation actually replaces, dimension by dimension.
| Dimension | Perimeter inspection only | Intelligent NDR (LinkShadow) |
|---|---|---|
| What it inspects | Traffic crossing the perimeter | Traffic moving inside the network |
| Detection basis | Signatures and policy | Behavioural baseline and deviation |
| Blind spot | East-west movement after a foothold | Whatever you do not mirror |
| Action | Blocks in line | Detects; something else acts |
| Data location | Your own appliance | Your choice — on-prem Master or cloud |
| Deployment effort | Rack, cable, policy | Traffic mirroring across the segments that matter |
NDR detects; it never enforces — budget for a SOC, an MDR service or an XDR workflow to consume the detections. And remember coverage equals mirroring: you see exactly the segments you mirror.
The five pieces of the platform
Vendors love diagrams; buyers need to know what they’re actually operating. Here’s the whole platform, demystified.
Sensors on mirrored traffic
Sensors take traffic from a SPAN port, TAP or virtual mirror for deep packet inspection. You see only what you mirror, so choosing segments is the real work.
The Master appliance
Sensors feed a Master that runs on-premises or in the cloud. On-premises keeps traffic and metadata in India by design; its cloud has no India residency.
Behavioural analytics
Models baseline each host and user, then flag beaconing, unusual internal fan-out and staging before exfiltration, after a baseline period.
Where detections land
It detects but does not block, so no throughput figure applies. Someone must consume detections: a SOC, MDR service or XDR workflow.
Retention and storage sizing
Metadata piles up fast; retention sets the storage bill and how far back investigations reach. Decide it before sizing the Master.
One set of sensors on mirrored traffic feeding a Master — behavioural detections surfaced for your stack to act on.
Six capabilities. Inspect, baseline, correlate.
LinkShadow Intelligent NDR watches the traffic inside your network — behavioural detection on what the LinkShadow portfolio.
Inspect what actually crosses the wire
Sensors parse mirrored traffic rather than sampling flow records, so detection uses protocol behaviour, not volume statistics alone.
See the movement a firewall cannot
Most post-foothold activity is east-west, host to host inside the perimeter, so it never reaches the firewall.
Catch command-and-control by its rhythm
Behavioural models spot the periodic call-home of compromised hosts, even to unknown destinations over encrypted traffic.
Learn normal, then flag deviation
Models baseline each host and user and surface departures; precision improves as the baseline matures over a tuning period.
Spot exfiltration before it leaves
Data is collected and staged inside the network before it leaves; catching staging means containment, not a disclosed breach.
Correlate with data and identity signal
With LinkShadow DSPM or ITDR, findings correlate in one console into higher-confidence compound detections; needs multiple modules.
Watch LinkShadow NDR in action
The Gartner placement, the NDR argument, and where the platform is going.
The Vision Behind LinkShadow’s 2026 Gartner Recognition
On the 2026 Magic Quadrant placement — Visionaries.
Ross Brewer on the Future of Network Detection & Response
Where NDR is heading, from the MQ 2026 vantage.
LinkShadow Talks S2 Ep.06 — Breaking Security Silos
The thinking behind the NDR product.
The Role of NDR in Modern Cybersecurity Compliance
Why east-west visibility shows up in audits.
LinkShadow Corporate Video 2026
The company and the platform, in its own words.
Want a live, India-context walkthrough for your environment?
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Here’s what genuinely sets LinkShadow iNDR apart — and where it honestly does not.
See the movement a firewall structurally cannot
A firewall inspects what crosses the boundary, but after a foothold — a phished credential, a vulnerable edge device, a contractor’s laptop — most attacker activity is east-west: enumerating shares, moving host to host, staging data. LinkShadow’s sensors inspect mirrored internal traffic, so that activity shows up as behaviour.
The on-premises Master is the honest India answer
LinkShadow offers no India data residency, and its policy allows storage anywhere; it makes no DPDP Act, RBI, SEBI, IRDAI or CERT-In claim. But the Master can run entirely on-premises, keeping traffic and metadata in your data centre by architecture. BFSI, insurance and government buyers should specify that from the start.
Visionaries is a real placement — and it is not Leader
Gartner placed LinkShadow in Visionaries on the 2026 Magic Quadrant for Network Detection and Response (May 2026): strong vision, less proven execution. Vectra AI, Darktrace and ExtraHop are the Leaders. Keep this distinct from the 2024 Market Guide, where it was a Representative Vendor, and the 2024 Frost Radar from Frost & Sullivan.
Know what you are buying: detection, and a network project
NDR detects but does not enforce: a firewall, EDR agent or person blocks, so you need a SOC, MDR service or XDR workflow watching. And coverage equals mirroring: mirror the data-centre core but not user VLANs and you miss workstation-to-workstation movement. Mirroring is network engineering, with change windows and sometimes hardware.
The numbers behind the platform
What your LinkShadow NDR journey looks like
Scope the visibility gap honestly
Which segments are dark, and who would act on a detection? TechBag says plainly if an MQ Leader fits your risk appetite better.
Decide on-premises or cloud
Data must stay in India? Specify the on-premises Master; there is no India cloud residency. It changes sizing, hardware and price.
Design the traffic mirroring
Coverage equals mirroring: map key segments and plan SPAN, TAPs or virtual mirrors, with change windows, maybe new switches.
Deploy sensors and baseline
Install sensors, let the Master correlate and the models learn; expect a tuning period before judging detections.
Wire detections into a workflow
Decide who watches and acts — your SOC, an MDR provider or an XDR workflow. TechBag helps design that handoff.
Review coverage and consider correlation
Re-check mirroring as the network changes, and judge DSPM or ITDR on your numbers; TechBag prices modules separately.
The review scoreboard
Modelled on Gartner Peer Insights structure. *Counts and breakdowns are illustrative pending verified review collection.
Quick poll — what’s driving your evaluation?
Talk to an advisor“Our firewall was clean and we still had an incident. NDR showed weeks of lateral movement that never crossed the perimeter.”
“The on-premises Master got this through review: traffic never leaves our data centre, so residency is an architecture fact.”
“Good value and the detections are solid once tuned. Be realistic about the first month — the models need a baseline, and we judged it too early.”
“Mirroring was the real project; getting SPAN across the segments we cared about took change windows and a switch upgrade.”
“We could not get a named vendor reference, which slowed procurement badly. The technology held up in the PoC.”
Where everyone sits — the grids
Analyst firms bury this view behind paywalls, and review-site grids score satisfaction, not fit for your estate. So here’s TechBag’s synthesis of the NDR market — tap any vendor to see why it sits where it does.
TechBag NDR Grid
Execution strength vs product vision — the classic market map, minus the paywall.
Visionaries on the 2026 MQ; flexible on-prem or cloud.
Network Detection × Proven at Scale
The grid nobody publishes — detection depth vs how proven the vendor is at scale, with published references.
Strong on deployment flexibility; less proven at scale.
Positions are TechBag’s illustrative synthesis of public review-platform data and vendor documentation — not a reproduction of any analyst graphic. Verify before relying on it.
LinkShadow iNDR vs the 2026 MQ Leaders
The NDR Leaders and the honest gaps — Visionaries is a real placement, and it is not the top right.
| Dimension | LinkShadow iNDR | Vectra AI | Darktrace | ExtraHop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 Gartner MQ for NDR | Visionaries | Leader | Leader | Leader |
| On-premises deployment option | Yes — Master on-prem | Varies by product | Yes, appliance-led | Yes, sensor + appliance |
| India data residency | Not offered | Confirm | Confirm | Confirm |
| Published pricing | None at all | Quote-only | Quote-only | Quote-only |
| Named public customers | None published | Published | Published | Published |
| Enforcement | None — by design | None — by design | Autonomous response option | None — by design |
| Deployment effort | Traffic mirroring | Traffic mirroring | Traffic mirroring | Traffic mirroring |
| India commercial presence | Kochi office + Truvisor | Channel + regional presence | Channel + regional presence | Channel + regional presence |
Which approach fits you?
Honest fit signals — because the fastest way to lose your trust is to pretend one product wins every scenario.
Choose LinkShadow iNDR if…
- You need east-west visibility and the data must stay in India — the on-premises Master keeps traffic and metadata in country by architecture, not by promise
- You are buying on architecture and value rather than analyst rank, and Visionaries is a placement you are comfortable defending internally
- You want the option to add data (DSPM) and identity (ITDR) signal to the same console later, and will price each module on its own merits
- You have a SOC, an MDR service or an XDR workflow ready to consume detections — or budget to put one in place
Choose an MQ Leader instead if…
- Most-proven NDR is your first requirement — Vectra AI, Darktrace and ExtraHop are the 2026 Leaders and sit above LinkShadow on Ability to Execute
- Your procurement requires named customer references and vendor-viability evidence, which LinkShadow does not publish
- You need published pricing for budget approval before engaging a vendor
Do not buy NDR at all if…
- You expect it to block something — NDR detects, and enforcement stays with the firewall or EDR
- Nobody will watch the console — an unmonitored NDR is an expensive log, not a control
- You cannot arrange traffic mirroring on the segments that matter — coverage equals mirroring, and nothing else
Pair it with an MDR service if…
- You want the detections watched around the clock but have no 24x7 SOC of your own
- Your team can act on a finding but cannot triage a console continuously
- You would rather buy the outcome than the tool — TechBag can scope the managed route alongside the licence
Revisit in twelve months if…
- You have no traffic mirroring today and no near-term change window to arrange it
- Budget approval needs a published list price, which LinkShadow does not offer
- Your procurement blocks on named customer references — that may change as the India business matures
LinkShadow Intelligent NDR is one of 17 firewall & network security products TechBag carries. The Firewall & Network Security guide narrows them to a shortlist and shows the reasoning. →
What does an unseen intrusion cost you?
Drag the sliders (endpoints on the segments you would mirror; IT-hour cost as loaded incident rate). Estimates model analyst time spent investigating internal activity without east-west visibility — the avoided-breach value of catching lateral movement early is the larger, unpriced win. Illustrative.
Loaded cost = salary + overheads per productive hour. Illustrative only — your TechBag quote models your actual environment and modules.
Three ways to consume it
LinkShadow publishes NO price — its marketplace listings are bring-your-own-licence. TechBag scopes sensors, Master placement and retention, then quotes in INR with GST.
Intelligent NDR
Best for east-west visibility
- Deep packet inspection + behavioural analytics
- Sensors + Master (on-prem, cloud or hybrid)
- Detects — a firewall still enforces
+ Platform add-ons
Best for a broader rollout
- Scoped to your estate
- Add-on modules as needed
- Phased, right-sized deployment
+ CyberMeshX correlation
Best if you add DSPM or ITDR
- Network, data & identity signal in one console
- Compound detections beat single signals
- Only pays off across multiple modules
Buy it for less — TechBag pricing beats list
Whatever the list prices above, TechBag negotiates a significantly better deal — with GST-compliant INR invoicing and local support. Ask us for your discounted quote.
Get an India-ready quote
Tell us your requirements and current tools — we’ll model it against what you spend today.
The 8 questions to ask every vendor
Take this into your next vendor call — including ours.
Which internal segments are dark today? NDR sees exactly what you mirror to it — list the segments that matter before sizing anything.
Must traffic stay in India? There is no cloud residency here, so will you specify the on-premises Master in writing?
Can you deliver SPAN, TAP or virtual mirrors on those segments? This is the real deployment work, and it needs change windows.
Where do detections land — your SOC, an MDR service, or an XDR workflow? An unwatched NDR console is an expensive log.
Is a Visionaries placement defensible to your board? Vectra, Darktrace and ExtraHop sit above it on the 2026 MQ.
Does procurement require named customers? LinkShadow publishes none — raise it in week one, not at final approval.
Can you approve without a list price? LinkShadow publishes no pricing at all; TechBag returns a scoped INR quote with GST.
Would DSPM or ITDR earn their place later? Price each on its own merits — consolidation only pays across multiple modules.
Questions buyers ask
Ready to evaluate LinkShadow NDR?
Scope the traffic-mirroring design, decide on-premises vs cloud for residency, or let a TechBag advisor compare it honestly against Vectra, Darktrace and ExtraHop.
Stats, ratings, review counts and pricing are illustrative and sourced from public materials; verify before purchase.