Introduction

Modern enterprises face an unprecedented challenge: their applications depend on an ever-expanding web of external services, APIs, and cloud integrations. As organizations scale, they accumulate hundreds of undocumented external dependencies – each representing potential security risks, compliance gaps, and operational blind spots.

The Challenge

Traditional tools like network firewalls and proxies operate far from where connections originate, creating critical visibility gaps:

• They can't identify which specific processes are making external calls

• They lose essential context about service identity

• They can only see traffic after encryption

• They lack insight into the actual data being transmitted

This leads to a fundamental problem: organizations don't truly know what's leaving their network or why.

A New Approach

Qpoint takes a fundamentally different approach by operating directly at the source of each connection. Using lightweight eBPF agents, we provide unprecedented visibility into external traffic where it matters most – at its origin.

Process-Level Intelligence

Traditional monitoring solutions often struggle to provide detailed context about service interactions. Qpoint addresses this limitation by offering comprehensive process attribution for every connection. Our solution can identify exactly which processes initiate external connections while maintaining complete service context and identity. This extends to detailed container and pod-level information, providing a complete understanding of service-to-service communication patterns.

Visibility at the Source

By operating where connections originate, Qpoint can:

• See and analyze traffic before encryption occurs

• Provide detailed payload visibility without certificate management

• Maintain service identity throughout the connection lifecycle

• Offer this deep visibility without any application changes

Why This Matters

This process-level visibility fundamentally transforms how organizations understand and manage their external dependencies. Security teams gain the ability to precisely track which applications are communicating externally, while platform teams can effectively map and understand their true external attack surface. Operations teams benefit from the ability to attribute costs and performance issues to specific services, and compliance teams can easily trace sensitive data flows to their source.

Our Unique Position

Qpoint serves as a vital complement to existing security infrastructure by adding a critical layer of process-aware visibility that was previously unattainable. By operating at the connection source, we occupy a unique position where we can see the actual data before encryption, identify the specific process making each call, and maintain full service context. Most importantly, we achieve this without requiring certificate management or application modifications.

Not Just Another Security Tool

Qpoint isn't:

• A replacement for your perimeter firewall

• A traditional network monitoring solution

Instead, we provide surgical visibility at the source of your traffic, enabling teams to understand their external dependencies with unprecedented clarity and context.