Ensuring network security is one of the most important areas of concern for IT organizations. Emprisa Networks, the leader in smart network compliance, change, and configuration management solutions, today announced that its E-NetAware NCCM solution tightly integrates traditional network configuration management features with advanced security change management features to improve levels of infrastructure security across multi-vendor IT networks.
"To protect customer confidence in the wake of increasingly complex security threats, today's IT organizations must ensure their networks maintain the highest security profiles and standards. E-NetAware performs real-time auditing, reporting, and enforcement of industry-standard network security policies. When E-NetAware detects an out-of-policy change, the system immediately notifies IT personnel and enables self-healing through automated script building, a unique benefit of Emprisa's SmartMerge Technology," stated Sherrie Woodring, president and CEO, Emprisa Networks. "In addition, security groups can quickly react to new security advisories through E-NetAware's automated assessment and resolution processes."
When a vendor announces a security or availability vulnerability, E-NetAware empowers the network team to quickly assess and identify the organization's exposure, stage the patch/fix, and automatically generate and push change scripts to each affected network device eliminating the vulnerability within minutes.
Greater change visibility across the network infrastructure results in easier management and greater policy control. E-NetAware provides the necessary tools to control and audit network change; to verify compliance with security policies; and to simplify updates to policies such as access-control lists (ACLs), passwords, switch-port security, VPN encryption keys, community strings, and other security related attributes. In addition, E-NetAware supports a comprehensive closed-loop change management process to request, assess/stage, review/approve, implement, verify, and report changes. Integrations with third party change management systems such as BMC Remedy Change Management enable IT organizations to realize true control over critical business service network assets.
"With E-NetAware, our network engineers and security administrators are able to centrally define, audit, and manage corporate network security policies, with special attention to ACLs. We no longer have to manually update or write custom scripts to implement changes to our policies, or rely on spreadsheets and e-mail for change management. When the time comes to update a policy or implement any type of change, E-NetAware's SmartMerge Technology automatically builds the change scripts, pushes the updates and provides a before and after snapshot of the changes made. E-NetAware's change automation and asset management capabilities save us valuable man hours allowing our engineers to focus their time on our rapidly growing network infrastructure," stated Stephen A. Felicetti, manager, information security, Fox Chase Cancer Center.
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