Network Visibility and Control

A major component of network functionality and network security that is generally missed but is most defiantly needed is network visibility and control.

 

Simple question:

  • Do you know what is traversing your network?
  • Can you see what is happening on your network?

More often than not, the answer to these questions are NO.

 

Simple question:

  • Would you like to have visibility of your network?

Every time this is asked the answer is YES!

 

Adopting the attitude of no news is good news is the wrong approach to your network. Because your users aren’t complaining of poor performance doesn’t mean your network is performing risk free or that the network is functioning at its optimum.

 

General IT Statement “We need more bandwidth!”

Questions to that statement

  • How do you know?
  • Can you see the bandwidth you are using?
  • Why is your network using so much bandwidth?
  • What data is traversing the network?
  • Can we do something on our existing infrastructure that can prevent us from upgrading our bandwidth services thus increase our costs… for no particular reason other than faster throughput?

 

These questions would be impossible to answer if you have no visibility of the network.

 

Communications Australia provides network visibility and control solutions to give the client full visibility of their network, with real time information and reporting tools that can provide the answers to the questions above and generate relevant information for presentation to anyone in the organization form IT managers to the CO’s.

 

With visibility comes control. Being able to see what is traversing your network, who is on your network and what packets of data they are using gives powerful information as to how your network is to behave and what protocols are necessary and what can be locked.

 

A visual tool that analyses the entire network receiving information form the core network devices such as Servers, Switches and Routers, gathering all this information in real time and reporting real time information such as;

  • Network Health
  • Network Integrity
  • Intrusion Detection
  • Non Compliance
  • Packet transfer – from starting point to end point

 

What protocols are being used?

 

Information that would take multiple engineers days to gather can now be done in an instant preventing potential network breaches such as virus outbreaks that could potentially bring down a network for days.

 

A visual tool that gives administrators Security Information and Event Management to proactively and reactively administer the network with clarity and accuracy. Decisions can be made on factual reports rather than speculations with hit and miss outcomes which can be costly with no guarantee of a 100% achieved outcome.

 

Company Policies are generally an HR issue with employees or contractors signing a compliance document when entering the organization. Policies can generally be breached due to the policing of the company policies being too difficult to manage with users being anywhere and everywhere, how to ensure policies are enforced is something that remains in the too hard basket!

 

With Communications Australia’s ability to design and implement networks with Policy based compliance networking we are now placing the signed policy compliance HR contract into the network.

 

Company acceptable use policies can now be policed and enforced by the network live and in real time!

 

Policies sit dormant on the network and are activated when a user logs onto the network. The attributes of the “Acceptable Use Policies” are administered to that user with alarms and automated responses engaged should a policy be breached.

 

Speak to a Communications Australia Network Consultant today regarding your company policies and how we can enforce them on the network.

 

Speak to us on how we can administer policies to eliminate unwanted protocols enabling network bandwidth optimization and capturing DHCP server being enabled on user workstations and taking down a network the instant they try to log on the network.

 

Policy enabled networks can prevent network downtime and network damage by capturing a threat or action (intentional or unintentional), action on that threat ensuring network integrity and uptime.