Empowered Networks

Overview / Benefits

• Improve the performance and availability of all services with continuous capture and warehousing of network traffic (both packets and statistics)  
• Reconstruct events with network-based retrospective security forensics and analysis
• Enable real-time monitoring and response to security, compliance and performance incidents – trace incidents to breaches and root cause  
• Raise real-time alerts based on performance thresholds, policy rules, attack signatures and anomaly definitions  
• Identify applications, systems and hosts involved in service disruptions and discover root-cause
• Identify scope and assess threat level of security-related incidents – Understand exposure of sensitive data, assure data integrity
• Provide proof of compliance during an audit, and forensic data evidence when needed
• Ensure sensitive data remains secure, and assure data integrity
• Consolidate network-based compliance assurance, security surveillance and performance monitoring with a single solution, to reduce overall costs

Products

The Niksun solution provides:

• Extensive network data and meta-data warehousing
• Drill-down analysis from application layer to link level
• Multi-level real-time and historical statistics
• Advanced filtering at all levels, pre- and post-capture
• Detailed packet level inspection with string search
• Client/Server application analysis and reconstruction

• A powerful single platform appliance architecture, that addresses both network performance and security surveillance, with support for LAN, MAN and WAN interfaces  
• A portable network monitoring appliance in a robust luggable appliance that supports 10GigE, for use in the field
• A scalable enterprise monitoring portal that identifies network, security and compliance incidents that impact business services,

Related Offerings

• Our Application Testing Offerings include capability to test the impacts of malware, denial of service and related security attacks on your network and security infrastructure
• Our Network Monitoring Offerings enable visibility, monitoring, diagnostics and analysis of the packets flowing across enterprise and service provider networks, and advanced solutions for linking test and monitoring tools to any traffic on the network  
• Our Network Testing Offerings focus on performance, interoperability and conformance testing for network infrastructure, mainly 1/10/40/100 Gbit/s Ethernet with realistic testing of data and control planes, and application layer protocols
• Our Data Center Testing Offerings help you optimize the performance, availability, security and scalability of applications running on physical and virtual servers, and their interconnections to storage, networks and related data center infrastructure. 

Empowered Value-Add

Storing large volumes of traffic, filtering for keywords or policy violations, reconstructing transactions, and supporting forensics, security and fault isolation may be required. Each customer’s needs and environment are unique, and engineering the right solution to enhance security, enable forensics, and meet compliance requirements only sounds easy.  
Empowered can help you:

• Review your network and security infrastructure, the location of key data sources, and assess the monitoring assets, skills, and processes you have in place  
• Validate security, legal and compliance requirements, and the implications on your network and security monitoring strategy
• Differentiate the must-have requirements your monitoring solution must address from the optional capabilities you can address cost-effectively
• Engineer the right security monitoring solutions to address your priority needs, and budget
• Deploy and integrate the solutions into your environment, and help define and implement the processes your team needs to succeed
• Support you all the way, with ad-hoc and in-depth training, scripting support and the integration help you need to get started, and achieve your goals
• Support you all the way, with ad-hoc and in-depth training, scripting support and the integration help you need to get started, and achieve your goals

Trust Empowered to help you architect, implement and integrate a Network Monitoring solution to match your needs and budget, that will help you succeed.