New Reporting & Analytics Engine Helps Security Personnel with Business Continuity
Lumeta, the leading provider of network assurance and discovery solutions for
enterprises and government agencies, announced the release of
IPsonar®
5.0, which significantly advances the product’s policy management, reporting and analytics capabilities.
In
this latest release, IPsonar allows users to set policy guidelines
based on regulatory requirements or internal guidelines, and to
automate the measurement of the true state of the network against those
policies. IPsonar also provides real-time alerting on policy violations
that break risk thresholds, even where the violation occurs on an asset
or connection that was previously unmanaged or unknown, enabling a
proactive approach to network security.
IPsonar
also helps IT management communicate the value of their work to the
business through the use of powerful new dashboards that can be
configured to present the most relevant data more effectively. For
instance, dashboards can be created for IT audit and regulatory
preparation or for executive management reporting.
As
many IT organizations face enormous pressure to cut the cost of
security, IT security threats continue to evolve to be increasingly
targeted to the enterprise’s most sensitive data or aimed at disrupting
the ability of the enterprise to conduct business. IPsonar 5.0’s
breakthrough Network Discovery leverages patented Network Leak Discovery
capabilities to provide an automated means for IT organizations to
measure the true state of the network against IT policy, analyzing gaps
in defenses before they are exploited.
Leveraging Lumeta IPsonar’s award winning visual analytics pioneered with the Internet Mapping Project,
IPsonar 5.0 now provides users the ability to seamlessly integrate and
analyze data from the entire IT and Security lifecycle. Now, users can
define custom attributes to be integrated. This integrated data can
then be leveraged throughout IPsonar’s network discovery reporting and
network mapping engines.
IPsonar 5.0 allows users to integrate two different types of data from IT and Security lifecycle products:
- Constant
Attributes, such as device ownership or name attributes stored in IT
Asset Management repositories, which makes IPsonar’s analyses easier to
understand and more actionable; and
- Variable Attributes which
represent changing data from other security systems. For example, IT
management can isolate the path of a worm infection on a network by
comparing data from a host vulnerability management solution on which
systems were running virus scanners against an IPsonar analysis of
known vs. unknown devices.
“Because
of the kinds of threats we face today, IT security organizations need
to move beyond security for the sake of compliance and into a more
mature security approach that incorporates the principals of
operational excellence,” said Lumeta Chief Operating Officer, Michael Markulec.
“But to do so, IT operations and security teams need to start with a
common view of their infrastructure. Our latest release of IPsonar
provides a common view and empowers IT professionals to establish a
robust network security policy knowing that they will be able to
monitor and enforce compliance effectively.”
Lumeta
IPsonar’s network discovery provides an automated means to aggregate
and associate real-time network security information for a holistic,
comprehensive and measurable approach to IT security. IPsonar provides
global network visibility and risk measurement for some of the largest
IT networks in existence, including those of the U.S. Department of
Defense and 15 of the 25 largest banks in the world. The system maps
every asset in the enterprise, including unauthorized assets, with
unparalleled clarity, providing a detailed visual representation of the
connectivity between assets and networks.