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Products: Policy Based Compliance Management

Despite the high costs of non-conformance, many large organizations lack the ability to automatically and intelligently enforce network policies for their mission-critical networks. Effective implementation of comprehensive compliance policies in a dynamic, multi-vendor, complex network environment is a challenging task. Traditional first-generation network compliance solutions are often ‘script based’ and ignore the need for holistic and comprehensive network compliance, which must support all business requirements as they pertain to networks.

Intelliden has pioneered the next generation of network compliance solution, which defines and manages policies to continually validate device configurations and intelligently resolves non-compliant conditions.

Challenges

Network-driven organizations face a number of network compliance challenges:

• Enforce network-wide policies to enable accurate device configurations and rapid service provisioning as per customer SLAs
• Manage increased regulatory and industry compliance costs and overhead
• Minimize network security risks associated with device misconfigurations
• Support compliance requirements within dynamic, complex, and heterogeneous networks
• Break down compliance “silos” and develop a comprehensive and organization-wide approach to network compliance management

Solution

Intelliden Policy Based Compliance Management (PBCM) automates the complete network compliance lifecycle to define policies, validate devices against policies, resolve violations, and report results in a continuous and closed-loop manner. Intelliden PBCM supports Total Network Compliance by meeting regulatory, industry, security and operational network compliance needs. It provides an effective way for IT and network staff to gain greater control of their network resources in dynamic and complex environments. It also enables timely access to critical network compliance information across the broader organization.

Key capabilities include:

Compliance Without Limits – Define Policies

• Supports an unlimited number and combination of compliance policies
• Incorporates a drag-and-drop, easy to use GUI for rapid policy creation
• Fosters re-use of existing policies through parameter management
• Provides out-of-the-box policies e.g. NSA Router Guidelines

'Always On' Compliance – Validate Devices against Policies

• Ensures continuous and accurate enforcement of policies
• Validates against an unlimited number and combination of devices
• Provides support for more than one million validations per hour
• Supports scheduled, ad-hoc or automatic validation

Intelligent Remediation – Resolve Compliance Violations

• Applies corrective actions automatically, or through user intervention
• Allows corrective actions to be based on a variety of user defined parameters
• Supports compliance exemptions and avoids unnecessary alarms

Audit – Generate Compliance Reports for Audit Purposes

• Publishes a variety of standard and customizable reports for audit and decision making
• Provides point-in-time as well as historical data and trends
• Can be customized for both business and technical audiences

Benefits

Intelliden Policy Based Compliance Management application provides a number of unique benefits:

• Mitigates business risks and penalties associated with compliance violations
• Ensures high network availability by automating error-prone manual processes
• Enhances network security by reducing configuration errors and network vulnerabilities
• Provides total network compliance in support of regulatory, industry, security and operational compliance requirements
• Improves operational efficiencies and productivity by consolidating disparate compliance management processes into a unified, comprehensive application
• Bridges and aligns business needs with IT / network organization resources

April 14, 2008 | World Trade Center, Boston,MA FutureNet 2008