The Application and Threat Intelligence (ATI) Processor delivers real-time application data to monitoring tools so that customers can be empowered to make better decisions with better data. It provides rich data on behavior and location of users and applications, in any format needed – raw packets, filtered packets, or metadata. This allows IT teams to identify unknown network applications, mitigate network security threats from suspicious applications and locations, and spot trends in application usage to predict and forestall congestion.