NMS Security Architecture Considerations & Approaches
This whitepaper by Principal Consultant of Neon Knight Consulting Anthony Kirkham covers how organizations can increasing the probability of detecting breaches using actionable guidance that will strengthen their Network Management’s security posture. Download the asset below.
Key Points:
- How quick detection may be the difference between being able to respond quickly and effectively, or, incurring a severe business and reputational impact.
- Practical guidance & solutions on securing Network Management systems and associated infrastructure.
- Mitigation Strategies to Prevent Malware Delivery and Execution.
- Mitigation Strategies to Limit the Extent of Cyber Security Incidents.
- Mitigation Strategies to Recover Data and System Availability.
- Tools & techniques can be used to provide high value in improving the security posture through Visibility.
- Why Align with Zero Trust Architectures.
A Primer in Root Cause Analysis
In this article I will attempt to outline a general process for troubleshooting network-related events, meaning those issues which directly impact the performance of a computer network or application resulting in a negative impact on user experience. While I will use FirstWave’s Solutions in the examples, these steps can be applied to any collection of NMS tools.
BG Unified Delivers 100% Network Uptime to Clients Using FirstWave
The BG Unified Solutions team consists of experts in different technologies like security, voice, load balancers, WAN, WAN optimization, Cloud, and Cisco Technologies. As experts across different technologies, their focus is to provide competitive, affordable and Unified Solutions to our clients.
BG Unified is a business that is built upon their clients trusting in the services that are delivered, whether that is infrastructure, backup, email, database or platform as a service, Saurabh Sareen (Sunny), BG Unified Solutions Co-Founder and Managing Director, aims for, and delivers, 100% uptime to his clients.
An IT Managers Guide To Network Process Automation
This guide is designed for IT Managers looking to implement Network Process Automation in their organisation.
Key Points:
- Focus on good operational practices.
- Picking the right tasks.
- Handling of common issues through automation.
- Mapping out the automation process.
- Time savings.
- Checklist.
The guide discusses the best approach for change management and team buy-in, provides a methodology framework to use when considering the automation of a manual task in a network environment and the steps to take in order to identify an effective test case for your organization.
How to Detect, Diagnose, and Fix Issues with Network Bandwidth
Network bandwidth has always been a precious commodity and given our current circumstances with so many people working from home, many companies have not had the bandwidth they need in the right places. This E-book will help you with some strategies on how to detect bandwidth issues, further diagnose those issues, and what actions you can take to relieve those bandwidth issues.
How to Detect, Diagnose, and Fix Issues with Network Bandwidth
Network bandwidth has always been a precious commodity and given our current circumstances with so many people working from home, many companies have not had the bandwidth they need in the right places. This E-book will help you with some strategies on how to detect bandwidth issues, further diagnose those issues, and what actions you can take to relieve those bandwidth issues.
An IT Managers Guide To Network Process Automation
This guide is designed for IT Managers looking to implement Network Process Automation in their organisation.
Key Points:
- Focus on good operational practices.
- Picking the right tasks.
- Handling of common issues through automation.
- Mapping out the automation process.
- Time savings.
- Checklist.
The guide discusses the best approach for change management and team buy-in, provides a methodology framework to use when considering the automation of a manual task in a network environment and the steps to take in order to identify an effective test case for your organization.
How To Scale Network Monitoring Effectively
This guide is designed for IT Managers looking to scale their Network monitoring in their organisation.
Key Points:
- The pros and cons of scaling by adding staff members.
- The pros and cons of scaling by changing processes.
- Risks of scaling your network.
- Mean Time Between Faults (MTBF).
- Mean Time To Resolution (MTTR).
- The guide discusses the best approach for increasing your monitoring capabilities and increasing your capacity for revenue generation while ensuring that the costs of doing business aren’t inflated at the same rate.
NMIS Initial Setup and Configuration
Join Mark Henry in this session as he demonstrates how easy it is to get NMIS, Opmantek’s open source solution, configured and ready to be used. Opmantek’s leading network monitoring solution, NMIS, an intelligent solution that will help you automate your problems away.
Join us for this 30-minute session while we learn:
- What Features you need to know in V8.6.7G
- Prerequisites (incl sizing your VM and installation)
- NMIS Setup
- NMIS Configuration
NMS Security Architecture Considerations & Approaches
This whitepaper by Principal Consultant of Neon Knight Consulting Anthony Kirkham covers how organizations can increasing the probability of detecting breaches using actionable guidance that will strengthen their Network Management’s security posture.
- How quick detection may be the difference between being able to respond quickly and effectively, or, incurring a severe business and reputational impact.
- Practical guidance & solutions on securing Network Management systems and associated infrastructure.
- Mitigation Strategies to Prevent Malware Delivery and Execution.
- Mitigation Strategies to Limit the Extent of Cyber Security Incidents.
- Mitigation Strategies to Recover Data and System Availability.
- Tools & techniques can be used to provide high value in improving the security posture through Visibility.
- Why Align with Zero Trust Architectures.
- & more!
How Configuration Management Systems Deliver Change and Compliance
The fundamental capability which configuration management provides is backup and archiving of critical configuration data from network and server equipment. This along with collecting detailed inventory data provide the basis for managing change and compliance.
The ability to detect, report and alert on change in near real time improves overall service availability and reduces the time required to identify the cause of incidents and outages.
This paper is to help Network Engineers, IT Managers and Executive Leadership understand the benefits of configuration management and how it contributes to change and compliance management at the business.
Optimizing and Automating Event Management to Support Incident Management
Opie has just arrived in the office and sat down to check his email. “Holy moly!” He yells out. He is looking at a massive influx of email messages in his Inbox from the Event Management tool, which was just configured to send out the alert notifications via email. “There’s no way the operations team will be able to respond to all those notifications in an efficient and timely manner. There has to be a better way to handle and address network events.”
NMS Security Architecture Considerations & Approaches
The purpose of this article is to provide some practical guidance on securing Network Management systems and associated infrastructure. While it can’t make any guarantees of absolutely protecting from similar attacks in the future, implementing these approaches can make the job of an adversary significantly harder. It will also propose techniques for increasing the probability of detecting breaches, which should be a significant consideration within any security solution.
This article cannot provide exhaustive coverage. However, it will focus on delivering actionable guidance that will have a tangible impact in strengthening the Network Management’s security posture (and potentially other) Systems.
An IT Managers Guide to Network Process Automation
This guide is designed for IT Managers looking to implement Network Process Automation in their organisation. It discusses the best approach for change management and team buy-in, provides a methodology framework to use when considering the automation of a manual task in a network environment and the Tsteps to take in order to identify an effective test case for your organization.
Nextlink Takes Network Management to the Next Level with Opmantek
In 2019, Nextlink implemented solutions from Opmantek for its monitoring, management, data collection and other operational tasks across its network. One of the products Nextlink uses, an event manager that automates event handling through extendable policies that enrich, correlate, organize and manage all the events in Nextlink’s environment.
With opEvents, Nextlink can automate event diagnostics and leverage intelligent automation to remediate network events which has helped to streamline its workflow. Using process automation, opEvents, modelled by Nextlink’s troubleshooting procedure, automates the troubleshooting and remediation of events, reducing the mean time to resolution (MTTR) when faults occur.
