Unprotected network endpoints a disaster waiting to happen…
- Why you need 100% network visibility
- How you can get 100% network visibility
- The benefits of full network visibility, control, and security
For years, leading analysts – specialists in Network Access Control (NAC) – have maintained that 10-20% of endpoints are unknown to enterprises’ IT teams.
A colleague, who manages the network for a commercial office rental firm, says he has sleepless nights wondering what devices, and how many of them, are being added and subtracted, on a daily basis, from the network he manages. “People just plug ‘whatever’ into the open ports whenever they want.”
Is this secure computing? Can enterprises afford to be so lax about their endpoint security when it takes just one open port for a bad guy to get in and steal confidential information or shut down the network and thereby the company? The former CEO of Target, who had to step down after the retailer’s gargantuan data theft, would probably say, “No.”
Just a few years ago, no one would dream of plugging their device into the corporate network on their own. Now, employees have routers in their homes and feel comfortable adding and subtracting devices at will.
You don’t need to be an expert to see the ways a clever hacker could find a doorway into the network.
What to do today:
- Lock down every single port, so that nothing can be added to your network without your knowledge. This requires automation and NAC, applied to every endpoint–which requires 100% discovery and control of all ports.
- Keep track persistently: Consolidate, correlate and persistently update the information about all devices in your infrastructure in one real-time, virtual CMDB.
- Manage and control 100% of your network from one central console, with one set of commands – even if your network has 500,000 endpoints.
Auconet BICS can manage 100% of your endpoints and ports today… no more sleepless nights.
