Network Baseline Solution provides information compliance.
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Lumeta Baseline Solution utilizes IPSonar® software to map every asset on network to uncover policy weaknesses and risk patterns. By providing views into hardware inventory, asset mapping service enables security teams to manage unknown assets and implement security technology to eliminate risk. After assets have been identified, data is loaded onto Information Technology Asset Management (ITAM) system, enabling asset inventories to be understood in context.
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Lumeta Network Baseline Solution Provides Complete Network Visibility
Baselining Networks Puts Information into Context for Confidence in Compliance
SOMERSET, N.J., Dec. 19 -- Lumeta, the leading provider of network assurance solutions for enterprises and government agencies, today introduced the Lumeta Baseline Solution. The Lumeta Baseline Solution leverages the industry leading network assurance technology IPsonar® to enable organizations to identify assets, ensure compliance to usage policies, as well as ensure that the most comprehensive and accurate information is loaded into an Information Technology Asset Management (ITAM) system -- thereby enabling asset inventories to be understood in context and the nature of the network more clear.
Asset verification is the ongoing process of identifying and analyzing devices within the organization so they can be properly managed. ITAM tools are credential-based and heavy on the network, conversely IPsonar is lightweight and can be used to accelerate the process of network discovery, and then pass that information to the credential-based ITAM tool's in-depth reporting. 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. Once the device is known to be active within the organization, it can then be integrated into the ITAM system. Using IPsonar, IT organizations can deploy new business services, maintain existing service levels and minimize network security risk to ensure compliant operations.
"ITAM systems rely on the creation of an asset baseline from which the inventory can be managed going forward. However, the auto discovery capabilities that are coupled with ITAM systems do not produce a view of the hardware device inventory in its entirety," said Lumeta's Executive Vice President of Technology and Operations, Michael Markulec. "To reap the benefits of an ITAM investment, an accurate baseline from IPsonar, is a critical first step. An incomplete baseline masks significant security risks, under-accounted infrastructure costs and rogue network devices."
Enhanced Fingerprinting provides an important compliment to credential- based ITAM products as it broadens the picture, and shortens the time it takes to discover information about parts of the network with lightweight discovery. Enhanced fingerprinting allows you to use IPsonar to learn some of the aspects of the devices and show the connectivity between assets. So ITAM tools will be able to know what a particular device is connected to and what networks it can see which ports are active on a device, and which services are running.
To determine whether assets are non-compliant or vulnerable to a specific threat, IT organizations must understand their attributes in context within the ITAM system, such as a server's OS or whether a device or host has a particular service enabled. IPsonar addresses this issue by:
-- Identifying Internet services and proprietary IP applications active on
hosts and devices, pinpointing resources for which tested ports are
active.
-- Flagging improperly secured wireless access points for remediation --
improving security without requiring staff to scan airwaves or deploy
antennae-based monitors.
-- Determining which operating systems network devices are running.
-- Extracting information from standard packets (ICMP echo requests and
high-port UDP packets); no application-layer transactions.
-- Facilitating consolidation by noting devices that run network-based
services, such as printers, network-based faxes and storage appliances.
-- Exporting details to security tools, optimizing host-level
vulnerability assessments and accelerating patch 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.
Media Contacts:
Jim McManus
Davies Murphy Group
(781) 418-2402
lumeta@daviesmurphy.com
