ARIA Packet Intelligence, (PI) provides OEMs, service providers, security professionals, and others with a better way of using SmartNIC technology to support two key use cases: advanced packet level network analytics and cyber-threat response, containment, and detection. Network analytics: ARIA PI gives complete visibility to all network traffic and feeds valuable data to packet delivery accounting tools and quality of service systems. This allows companies to provide better service and maximize revenue tied to usage-based billing. Cyber-threat detection and response, as well as containment: ARIAPI also feeds metadata into threat detection tools, allowing for complete visibility of all network traffic, east-west data flows, and more. This increases the effectiveness of existing security tools such as SIEMs or IDS/IPS tools and gives security teams a better method to detect, respond, contain and remediate even the most advanced cyber-threats.