ADDRESS YOUR TOP 8 NETWORK CHALLENGES WITH DAY-2 AUTOMATION NetBrain PDAS Addresses Today’s 8 Most Common Network Challenges 1. Enforcement of Security Policies & Zones Network security is one of the most critical needs of a modern NetBrain's Intent-based network automation platform enterprise. In most situations, network security has been makes security enforcement a standard part of your implemented by a litany of point and overlapping solutions, each network operations. NetBrain continuously tests how well The deployment designed to manage an application or feature access requirement. information is flowing whether verifying enterprise-wide or of security But how do you know when a new security solution interferes with the granular policies and controls focusing on users, data behavior of a previously installed one? How can you confirm that types, services, or individual devices. hardware and your business network is always protected? The key is to continuously software verify the production network against the identified list of security Applications, services, and users live on different networks creates the intents including hundreds of security borders and zones enforced by and subnets, so network and security architects add illusion of “one firewall rules, access control, dynamic routing schemes, and edge segmentation to different networks with policies to allow or and done” access restrictions. deny application traffic. NetBrain enforces network intents protection. automatically: Challenges Security-related The deployment of security hardware and software creates the • on core routing, distribution separation, and edge illusion of “one and done” protection. Most IT leaders diminish the access prevalence or ignore the reality of ad-hoc changes, which results in • by validating configuration, ACLs, topology, device configuration drift for network components, including security state, and permit/deny conditions services. The concept of proactive and on-going verification of the • to assure that VLANs and micro-segmentation thousands of security rules (access control, allow/deny, intrusion), that security zones and subnets are intact must be compliant for complete protection, surfaces much less frequently. Security Assurance Networks are protected from malicious traffic by security products such as firewalls, but how can these devices be tested continuously to assure they allow certain types of traffic and deny other types? Rules for transporting various traffic types and the valid source and destination addresses must be verified continuously. NetBrain uses its Intent technology to assure that all devices that are paired or load-balanced have the same sets of rules.