Best practices - security monitoring

Overview

Most security professionals focus on policy, training, tools, and technologies to address network security. Security tools and technologies, however, are only as good as the network data they receive for analysis. With mounting Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC) requirements, the need for network monitoring is intensifying.

A new technology can help - the Network Monitoring Switch. It provides exactly the right data to each security tool and enables monitoring with dynamic adaptation. The Network Monitoring Switch resolves issues security teams have in getting visibility into the network and getting the right data for analysis.

This whitepaper, targeted at security professionals, will address network visibility and will focus on:

Monitoring inclusive of virtualized environments
Monitoring 10G/40G networks using existing 1G/10G security tools
Providing automated responses for adaptive monitoring
Improving incident remediation
Improving handling of sensitive data
Providing granular access control so the entire monitoring process is tightly controlled