Compliance Management
Netcordia Keeps Networks Up to Date
Benefits
- Ensures compliance with regulatory standards and/or internal policies across all network elements simultaneously
- Continuously compares current configuration with pre-set corporate policy
- Controls change and notifies you of deviations from policy on entire network infrastructure
- Identifies service degradation and fixes problems before customer service is impacted
With Every New Regulation, Compliance Costs Continue to Rise
Today’s complex and ever-evolving networks expand their capabilities at a frenetic pace, leaving IT departments little time to ensure compliance with strict, industry-specific regulations, as well as federal standards. The biggest complaint from companies, however, is the cost of maintaining compliance as profits—and valuable man hours—are spent going back and analyzing operations, instead of moving the network forward.
A survey of 274 enterprises conducted by Financial Executive International in 2005 found that major companies were spending an astounding average of $3.82 million annually to keep their networks in compliance with regulations and standards. Today, additional compliance guidelines—particularly recent industry regulations—and a proliferation of new devices have undoubtedly increased these costs. Companies need a solution to help automate compliance and allow IT to focus on the future.
NetMRI Eliminates the Risk of Networks Falling Behind
The costs of compliance go beyond merely playing catch-up with regulations and standards for network devices. According to Cisco Systems, a network that is out of compliance is by nature:
- more complex,
- more difficult to manage,
- and up to 90% more costly to operate.
Clearly, maintaining compliance in real time is more efficient and less expensive than trying to adjust or fix the network after it has fallen behind.
Netcordia utilizes an all-encompassing approach to compliance management, providing the automated monitoring and analysis to ensure the network adheres to all standards, end to end, device to device, regardless of vendor.
Our NetMRI takes inventory, audit, and performance into consideration while employing expert rules and best practices to analyze your network. A Configuration Policy Definition makes sure that your current device configurations are in compliance, while a proprietary Policy Enforcement Technology helps you update configurations across your network.
NetMRI Automates the Compliance Management Process
The NetMRI compliance management process is continuous and automatic, with analysis and reporting performed on a daily basis to ensure continuity across the entire network infrastructure. Network configurations are compared with internal corporate policies, industry-specific regulations—such as Sarbanes-Oxley Act and HIPAA—and federal standards.
NetMRI can also take corrective actions to bring thousands of devices into compliance across your network, automatically, providing a customized solution to meet your specific needs.
Wouldn’t you like an expert to automate compliance management on your network?
Compliance Management in Action:
NetMRI Provides Healthcare Organization Preventative Care
Healthcare organizations depend on vast networks to link a cadre of providers, local and satellite offices, and major medical centers—presenting a huge compliance challenge.
A Netcordia healthcare customer relies on NetMRI’s storage of network device configurations to ensure that every device is correctly set up and running properly. NetMRI also performs daily audits to ensure continuous compliance throughout the entire network.
The healthcare provider uses NetMRI not only to help make changes across a large number of devices and maintain compliance, but also to act as a backup system for the multi-vendor devices’ configurations and to serve as a safeguard against any major catastrophic network event.