February 28, 2008 -
Offering visual representation of all assets on network and their connectivity, IPsonarŪ v4.0 helps balance network change with risk management and compliance imperatives. Lumeta Network Index, which creates executive scorecard quantifying network risk, can be used to determine increasing/decreasing risk as well as contributing factors. SOA promotes scalability and flexibility, and open API facilitates integration with risk management and IT management lifecycle solutions.
Network Assurance Solution Enables Enhanced Discovery of Network Vulnerabilities and Baselines Assets and Connections - Now with Open APIs and SOA Architecture
SOMERSET, N.J., Feb. 26 -- Lumeta, the leading provider of Network Assurance solutions for enterprises and government agencies, today announced the immediate availability of the latest version of its flagship solution: IPsonar(R) 4.0. The solution allows organizations to balance network change with risk management and compliance imperatives, enabling them to obtain complete visibility into network connectivity and behavior.
With this release, Lumeta has made IPsonar easier to use, allowing IT personnel to quickly discover critical network information, including all assets, both managed and unmanaged. In addition, the increased ability to scale across large enterprises helps managers and administrators instantly understand their network environment, thereby extending the value of Network Assurance data across the risk and IT management lifecycles.
Key enhancements in IPsonar 4.0 include:
-- Integrated Lumeta Network Index (LNI) - Creates an executive scorecard quantifying network risk. LNI enables the measurement of scores over time to determine if the level of network security risk is increasing or decreasing, as well as the most significant contributing factors;
-- New Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) - Enables dramatically increased scalability and flexibility;
-- Improved ease-of-use to build and reuse queries and improved IPsonar MapViewer interface; and
-- Open API - Enables simple integration with risk management and IT management lifecycle solutions. Users can now leverage IPsonar's unique discovery capabilities in the context of existing risk management and network management investments, allowing them to drive more value by focusing tools on areas of greatest risk to the business.
IPsonar 4.0 enables large organizations to quickly create a visual representation of all assets on the network, in addition to mapping the connectivity between those assets. A new SOA Reporting Platform offers greater flexibility, scalability, and performance. New database-driven reporting available with both the IPsonar 4.0 and Lumeta's MapViewer increases usability and functionality, and an improved high-end report server provides greater detail and insight into the network infrastructure and potential issues. MapViewer empowers users to connect directly to IPsonar reports, allowing the use of powerful visual analytics to examine multiple reports simultaneously. At the same time, IPsonar can easily integrate with existing applications, allowing organizations to quickly and accurately map all devices and data flow on the network and leverage that knowledge in the context of industry standard analytic and configuration management tools.
Organizations must understand their network inventory and have a comprehensive view of connectivity in order to manage compliance, governance, security, and cost management initiatives. Now, this understanding can be easily achieved by using IPsonar 4.0 to create a baseline of network assets and risk. This baseline can be used as a starting point for these initiatives, while later scans can be compared to the prior baseline for continued improvement. It is also vital for managing relationships with outsourcers who are increasingly providing assistance to federal and commercial organizations. IPsonar enables organizations to establish and manage the outsourcing relationship by empowering them with a detailed understanding of available assets, helping them manage the ongoing relationship.
"IPsonar 4.0's LNI creates an executive scorecard that quantifies network risk: The higher the score, the greater the risk to availability, security, and compliance. With this scorecard, organizations instantly receive information to help reduce the risk lifecycle and handle new risks as they arise," said Michael Markulec, executive vice president, technology and operations, Lumeta. "Additionally, with IPsonar engineered as an SOA solution with open APIs, we can deliver tremendous value and enhance other network security solutions as well."
This scorecard can be used as a stand-alone metric or as an integrated part of IPsonar. Additionally, IPsonar 4.0 now integrates closely with asset management and security information management solutions, enabling organizations to leverage their previous investments while discovering information that can help make existing network investments even more efficient. Through public APIs, users can quickly export data about connectivity and possible security or compliance issues and handle them proactively, before they become major blown problems.
Lumeta IPsonar 4.0 is available immediately, with pricing beginning at $75,000. Pricing is dependent on the size of the network and number of connections under management.
About Lumeta Corporation
Lumeta provides large enterprises and government agencies with the global visibility needed to quantify network risk and measure the impact of network change. Our network assurance solutions enable IT organizations to deploy new business services, maintain existing service levels and minimize network security risk to ensure compliant operations.
Lumeta's flagship product, IPsonar, is the industry's only solution that allows organizations to measure risk from a global network perspective. IPsonar maps every asset on a network-including assets not currently under management-visualizes the connectivity between assets and networks to uncover risk patterns and policy weaknesses, and enables network and security teams to bring unknown assets under management while deploying security technology more effectively to mitigate risk.
For more information, visit the Lumeta Web site at www.lumeta.com.
Lumeta, the Lumeta logo, IPsonar and the IPsonar logo are trademarks and service marks of the Lumeta Corporation. Other product and company names appearing in this document may be trademarks of their respective owners. Company Information: Name: Lumeta Corp. Address: 220 Davidson Ave., Suite 401 City: Somerset State: NJ ZIP: 08873.4146 Country: USA Phone: 866-586-3827 FAX: 732-564-0731 http://www.lumeta.com
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