Security Management
Detects Vulnerabilities Across the Entire Infrastructure
Benefits:
- Easily and effectively manages firewalls and router access lists (ACLs)
- Detects open ports across the entire infrastructure—which can cause security breaches
- Automatically notifies you of configuration changes that can impact security
- Maintains and controls security from within the network
Most Security Problems Start from Within
While all organizations are more security conscious, they often misdirect their attention to forces outside the company—malicious traffic, DoS attacks, worms and viruses, etc. The fact remains, however, that most security issues come from within the company.
Enterprise Management Associates reports that more than 60% of network failures occur because of unchecked human error associated with changes to configurations. It is rarely deliberate or malicious.
And yet, companies do so little to ensure that network devices are properly configured to comply with security policies.
NetMRI Helps Enforce Network Security Policy
For those organizations that have security policies in place, considerable time and effort are devoted to ensuring adherence to these policies. For example, a company with a policy that calls for the regular updating of its router passwords faces enormous challenges if the network is a multi-vendor infrastructure. The task becomes even more difficult when trying to find the devices in which the updates did not occur.
That's why so many customers turn to Netcordia's data collection and analysis capabilities to detect security issues automatically, before they become a bigger issue. In the case of router passwords, our NetMRI platform can compare the newest configuration with an archived configuration to quickly discover devices with unchanged passwords.
Netcordia customers also use NetMRI’s Policy Enforcement technology to correct any problems across a large number of network devices. Other NetMRI capabilities, such as detecting open ports, identifying ports with errors, and recognizing firewall configuration issues, help further enhance the security of customers’ networks.
NetMRI Notifies You of Deviations, Discrepancies, and Security Changes
The NetMRI solution audits, identifies, and reports all potential vulnerabilities on your network, including configuration discrepancies and changes, open ports, ports with errors, and compliance deviations from policy—any of which could lead to network degradation and a security breach.
With NetMRI you can spot trouble before it turns into a problem by detecting—automatically—firewall, router, and switch changes that deviate from your existing configuration or company policy. NetMRI will perform routine analysis on your infrastructure security and report situations before they evolve into failures. In short, Netcordia will proactively notify you of any changes that might have a negative impact on the security of your network.
Doesn’t your network need the added protection of security vulnerability detection?
Security Management in Action:
NetMRI’s Port Security Is a Key Defense Strategy
At a large manufacturing company, the network connected assembly to inventory, as well as orders to fulfillment. Problems on any device in any segment would disrupt the whole operation.
After viewing a Netcordia online demo, the company installed NetMRI to analyze the port-level information on network devices, significantly enhancing the capabilities of its CiscoWorks management software.
Now the company uses NetMRI to detect open ports and to find ports with errors throughout the system. A quick level view shows all open ports, ports with errors, and ports that are within normal function. This fast, at-a-glance behavioral analysis of the devices allows the manufacturer to fix problems before the system is disabled, ensuring an unprecedented level of security—and availability—across the company-wide network.