New Release of InfoSecter Improves Network Security Quality Assurance

CHAMPAIGN, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--IT staff face increasing problems ensuring their network security implementation is accurately enforcing the organization's security policy. As an IT staff member you are told a particular type of traffic unexpectedly shows up in the logs. How do you figure out which of the 1,000 lines in your firewall configuration are causing the problem? You would like to remove a seemingly useless line in your security appliance configuration. Will this cause unexpected harm? Your organization has had problems keeping the policy requirements of all groups fulfilled with each configuration change. How can you solve this problem without even more lengthy review meetings?

“We can no longer rely on the word of our firewall gurus; we need an automated mechanism to validate compliance with our policies.”

The manual techniques of the past to ensure that network security implementations are accurate are no longer sufficient for today's security conscious organizations. According to Ken Rowe, Director of System Assurance and Information Security at the University of Illinois, “We can no longer rely on the word of our firewall gurus; we need an automated mechanism to validate compliance with our policies.”

Network Geographics introduced InfoSecter 1.0 to address the problem of checking network security implementation against security policy for Cisco, Juniper, and CheckPoint devices. Configuration dissection and browsing, functional configuration comparison, and policy validation help IT staff and auditors understand their network security implementations. InfoSecter 1.1 builds on the core strength of the 1.0 product improving network address translation modeling for Cisco devices, adding the ability to create policy expressions from Internet Storm Center reports and packet capture files, and improving usability and performance making InfoSecter an even better tool for tracking day-to-day changes and supporting firewall configuration migration.

Increasing usability was a major goal of the 1.1 release. Hinting mechanism improvements simplify filter and expression creation. Configuration Viewer adds browsing history and a configuration symbol viewer. Documentation and training materials are more extensive and complete.

Fast and efficient performance is necessary to encourage frequent use and provide an interactive browsing experience. Efficient analysis algorithms were tuned in 1.1 to enable near real time analysis on configurations that are 1000's or 10,000's of lines long.

InfoSecter 1.1 turns the good ideas from 1.0 into an even more useful and practical product. For documentation and pricing visit http://network-geographics.com/infosecter or call 888.276.2027.