ArcSight NCM
Centrally Manage Your Network Configurations and Monitor your
State of Compliance
Today's enterprises are faced with the challenge of rapidly and efficiently adapting to constantly changing business conditions. Many of these changes affect the configuration of the organization's complex networks. As a result, network operations teams struggle to keep up with large volumes of upgrades and change requests. But in order to complete all required modifications in a timely manner, many network operations teams fail to adhere to the enterprise's internal change management policies.
Most organizations find that 80% of network configuration changes are tedious, simple tasks--but they are still being performed by the enterprise's highly skilled network engineers. This is because many of these tasks require in-depth knowledge of the individual network devices, network topology and a pervasive understanding of the business impacts of these changes. Often only the enterprise's most skilled engineers have this level of information and understanding of the network and all of its components.
As if these challenges are not enough, the day-to-day operational workload is now pressured by demands for compliance, putting extra demands on the networking group.
ArcSight NCM can help you have compliance controls in place, enable you to reinforce compliance, and minimize the workload through controlled task automation.
Highlights:
- Appliance-based solution: secure, rapid ROI, low TCO. ArcSight NCM is a completely self-contained secured appliance that does not require additional servers, external databases, consoles, applets or thick clients.
- Industry-leading configuration task automation. Even the most complex configuration tasks can be automated with role-based wizards and executed across any vendor and any environment. As a result, the change process workload can be distributed in a controlled fashion to any tier of the organization freeing up overburdened staff while maintaining necessary control, safety and compliance.
- Certified Audit Controls. The ArcSight NCM Audit Package for Cisco delivers 90+ audit controls that include audit reports and dashboards, which are full implementations of the Center for Information Security (CIS) benchmarks for Cisco Routers and Cisco Pix Firewalls. This content solution is certified by the CIS organization and offers an industry accepted set of reference compliance controls for SOX, HIPAA, FISMA, PCI and other regulations, which by their nature are non-directive and vague in implementation. Additionally, real time configuration change detection and a full range of remediation options for control violations offer a closed-loop monitoring solution.
- Configurable Audit Environment. A powerful, yet easy-to-use audit authoring environment enables point and click modifications and additions to audit controls. This tool makes it easy for corporations to adapt and create a compliance environment that gives them useful dashboard results with remediation options.
- Integration standards. Inbound and outbound integration with ArcSight ESM and ArcSight Logger as well as other applications via industry standard interfaces such as, ML/SOAP, Syslog CEF, SNMP and SMTP.
