ADDRESS YOUR TOP 8 NETWORK CHALLENGES WITH DAY-2 AUTOMATION 7. Audit Network Designs, Best Practices and Rules Your network design compliance is only as good as the next network Challenges update. Most enterprises surprisingly don’t have accurate While the concept of design and best-practice compliance is intuitive, the means to documentation of what’s in their networks, how they’re connected achieve it at scale is daunting. In most cases, audit and compliance processes are and how information is intended to flow. Understanding your network executed infrequently, or in direct response to audits. In worse case scenarios, this and the purpose every device serves in delivering applications is rule enforcement is addressed immediately “after” a catastrophic incident occurs. fundamental to maintaining operational compliance. In addition, adhering to security policies and regulatory compliances (e.g., HIPAA, Achieving Design Compliance and Best Practice Audit PCI-DSS, NIST) can take up a significant amount of time. What’s more, the inability to proactively monitor and enforce security rules, NetBrain enforces design compliance and security policy adherence by: puts you at greater risk of threats and security breaches which in • Explicitly encoding best practice rules with Intent some cases go undetected for days or weeks. Auditing and enforcing • Proactively monitoring rule violation best practice and design architecture rules is the key to enforcing • Mitigating security and performance risks network security, maintaining compliance, and maximizing uptime.