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Traditional IT Audits and Security Assessments address only short-term solutions.
Once any change is made to the network environment, any prior audit may become ineffective as soon as, no matter how minimal, that change/modification may be. The inevitable changes can introduce new security holes that were not detected by prior assessments. Detecting these security holes is time-consuming and costly.
To address the holes in security that affect day-to-day business operations, Network Scan built ConfigScan.
ConfigScan streamlines and standardizes network risks assessments, resulting in a significant cost reduction in both time and labor. ConfigScan a, software only tool running in real time, performs an automated network evaluation that delivers a detailed network assessments on your layer 2,3 & 4 devices and gives you the remediation step recommendations.
ConfigScan enables network security staff to perform comprehensive audits that assess security based on CIS, NSA, DISA, NIST, Cisco Security Baseline, and/or a Custom Security Baseline. The resultant reporting/remediation enables an organization to keep in compliance with regulatory requirements, such as PCI, SOX, HIPAA, FERPA, COBIT, GLBA, FFIEC, NERC CIP, SAS 70.
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Highly complex application environments blur the line between applications and network management. Therefore, it is no longer possible to separate the network from the application.
Without complete visibility up to L7 (Application Layer), existing network tool technology lags behind in the technology curve. The resultant pain point is that applications and network staff spend 40% or more of their time identifying/solving the problem. Why did applications performance "head south"?
This is where Extrahop’s Application Assurance Delivery Systems helps with one, unified solution to solve problems. Extrahop ensures business-critical applications do not fail. It eliminates blamestorming between network, application and database engineers.
Extrahop’s Application Delivery Assurance system reconstructs all traffic flows to analyze payloads.
Extrahop is a passive appliance that requires a methodology for data access.
This is where Gigamon’s data access switch comes into play. Gigamon’s switch enables an infrastructure for out-of-band management, connecting network tools.
The Gigamon switch redirects the appropriate network traffic to Extrahop’s appliance in which the traffic flows are reconstructed. The combination of Extrahop’s appliance, coupled with Gigamon’s data access switch, delivers a very powerful solution across the entire IT environment.
NSS believes in consultative approach in constructing the proper solutions that IT and management staff may benefit by. All product technologies represented by NSS may be evaluated to ensure requirements are met to help IT staff in the decision process, meeting project time lines.