IPsonar®:Creating Global Network Visibility
Enterprises and government agencies are evolving their networks to improve service levels and reduce costs.Yet even simple network adjustments increase the potential for service outages, security breaches, and compliance violations.
Balancing change with availability, security, and compliance requires comprehensive network visibility based on concrete facts.Armed with this information, IT managers can confidently make the right decisions about network risk and availability.This is network
assurance.
IPsonar, Lumeta’s flagship network assurance product, is the only technology that provides global network visibility and measures risk from a network perspective. IPsonar maps every asset on a network—including assets not currently under management—to
visually analyse the connectivity between assets and networks, uncovering risk patterns and policy weaknesses.
IPsonar extends the value of network management and security investments by prioritising bottlenecks and vulnerabilities due to poorly configured or previously unknown devices.Thus, issues can be resolved before they result in costly downtime or material weaknesses.
IPsonar is delivered as an appliance to minimise installation overhead, and is built on a robust three-tier enterprise architecture that ensures scanning is efficient and nonintrusive. As a network appliance, IPsonar requires no installation or disruption to operations in order to completely scan a network—no matter how dispersed or numerous the resources are.The solution completes scans typically within 72 hours. Results are fully extensible to other network management and security systems, for example, SIM systems or asset management solutions, so clients can accelerate processes such as vulnerability and change management.
Key Benefits
Balance compliance and change.Periodically monitor compliance to assure new mandates and evolving resources do not compromise compliance efforts. Resolve issues before audits. Create objective reports.
Maintain service availability. View the changing network to create project plans that minimise adverse impact to service. Integrate scan results to network management tools, for faster, more accurate problem diagnosis.
Strengthen security. Identify and automatically prioritise known and previously unknown security vulnerabilities. Use results to maximise performance of intrusion detection and access management tools. Validate that remedial actions are implemented.
Validate policy compliance. Align IT’s area of responsibility with its area of network visibility. Scan resources and assure compliance across headquarters, division, remote, and partner networks.
Unlock savings. Gain intelligence to plan consolidation and optimisation efforts. Pinpoint and remove inefficiencies, such as remnants of divested units or poorly engineered branch networks.
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