Business Profile:
This company is a leader in delivering risk and insurance services and solutions to clients worldwide.
Industry:
Insurance and Risk Consulting
Challenges:
To create an IDS architecture that would strengthen the company's security infrastructure and ensure timely compliance with audit requirements.
Solutions:
The company deployed several VSS monitoring port aggregator taps in order to aggregate the data collected inline from multiple networks to the IDS servers.
Benefits:
Complete network visibility with the existing monitoring hardware
Business Profile:
The discussed company is the largest mobile telecommunication provider in Poland.
Industry:
Telecommunications - Mobile
Challenges:
Increasing market growth in its region has called for a centralized and easy to manage monitoring solution.
Solution:
Deploy multiple VSS monitoring Tap Switches in a hierarchical architecture. Each tap forwards the output to a centralized Port Aggregator, enabling all networks to be passively monitored, in any combination, with multiple analyzer devices.
Benefits:
Easy management from a single location
Improved quality of monitoring
Eliminated the need to buy multiple network analyzers for each location
Enjoyed immediate network visibility with the existing analyzer hardware
Business Profile:
Company discussed is one of the world's leading providers of mobile communications.
Industry:
Telecommunications - Mobile
Challenges:
As one of the fastest growing nationwide wireless service providers, a 40% increase in volume of traffic in the last year called for a centralized and easy to manage monitoring solution.
Solutions:
This mobile service provider deployed multiple VSS monitoring Port Aggregators inline in their Gi networks. Each aggregator provides visibility into multiple networks, sending the data to the single monitoring device. The whole solution is managed from a single monitoring location.
Benefits:
Greater coverage of network monitoring with existing monitoringequipment
Ease of configuration installation and management
Ability to select the monitored networks remotely
Overall improved quality of management and monitoring
Business Profile:
The retail chain discussed here is one of North America's largest grocery retailers with approximately 1300 stores across the US and Canada. This Fortune 500 company has over 100,000 employees and owns multiple well know subsidiaries and affiliates in the domestic and international market.
Industry:
Retail - Food and Drug
Challenges:
With the growth of online consumer activity and an increasing level of WAN traffic containing consumer's financial information, this retailer developed an immediate need for more comprehensive monitoring and security of network
data at the branch level.
Solutions:
The retail chain deployed a VSS monitoring Tap in every store location which enabled an IDS and Forensics tool to simultaneously monitor the same network traffic. The VSS Tap required only 1 interface card on each monitoring device.
Benefits:
Doubled the monitoring capacity on each link
Saved cost by requiring only 1 interface on monitoring tools
Provided the same reliable solution in each store
Easy to install, plug and play, hardware solution
Increased security and monitoring quality by tapping inline
