Lumeta Outlines Best Practices for Building a Network Assurance Program
Posted on: Wednesday, 28 February 2007, 09:55 CST
SOMERSET, N.J., Feb. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Lumeta, the leading provider of network assurance solutions for enterprises and government agencies, today introduced five critical considerations to help organizations develop a Network Assurance program. Forrester Senior Analyst Paul Stamp, along with Lumeta CTO David Arbeitel, will define network assurance and present actionable strategies for building a network assurance program during a Webinar, titled "Network Assurance: The Missing Piece of the Risk Management Equation," presented by TechTarget. The Webinar will air on March 1, 2007 at 2:00 p.m. EST. Registration information can be found at http://www.lumeta.com/webinars/networkassurance.asp.
Network Assurance complements system and data level security solutions to round out the risk management equation by measuring the impact of network change on security, availability and compliance. By placing security in the context of service availability and network performance, organizations will obtain visibility into risk from a network perspective -- a critical requirement for validating policies and controls as organizations build security into the fabric of the infrastructure.
There are five critical competencies organizations must establish as part of a Network Assurance program:
1. Quantify network risk based on a comprehensive set of network facts. 2. Measure the impact of network change on security and availability using a network risk scorecard. 3. Identify gaps between security policies and network defenses by analyzing actual connectivity across the enterprise and between the enterprise and the Internet. 4. Optimize proactive security efforts by prioritizing the deployment of vulnerability scanning efforts to high risk segments of the network such as unknown and unmanaged hosts, devices, and address space to optimize proactive security efforts. 5. Bring unknown network assets under management and apply necessary patches; reconfigure any devices that allow unauthorized connectivity which violates security policy.
"IT organizations face a fundamental paradox: support the business with agility and flexibility without introducing risks that could impact security or result in compliance violations," said David Arbeitel, CTO Lumeta. "Currently, the level of security automation is low, creating gaps between defenses and security policies. These gaps exist largely because organizations have focused on security at the host, device and data level without a solid understanding of the network and enterprise connectivity."
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 http://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: Jeremy Nazarian Jim McManus Lumeta Davies Murphy Group (732) 357-3532 (781) 418-2402 jnazarian@lumeta.com lumeta@daviesmurphy.com
Lumeta
CONTACT: Jeremy Nazarian of Lumeta, +1-732-357-3532,jnazarian@lumeta.com; or Jim McManus of Davies Murphy Group, +1-781-418-2402,lumeta@daviesmurphy.com, for Lumeta
Web site: http://www.lumeta.com/
Source: PRNewswire
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