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Secure Data Center Solution

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Secure Critical Data Center Resources with Enterasys Policy Architecture

Secure Open Convergence Solution
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Enterasys Secure Data Center Solution is a unique, policy-based solution that allows for the administration of specific security and QoS policies associated with data center assets and applications. The Secure Data Center Solution enables network administrators to provision required business services automatically to and from specific applications, while preventing undesirable and malicious traffic from entering this mission-critical environment. As a key component of a Secure Network, a Secure Data Center Solution can:

  • Protect the enterprise data center from undesirable and malicious application traffic and protocols
  • Respond quickly and effectively to changes in the environment, including security threats and newly implemented business applications or services
  • Ensure reliable user access to business-critical services by enforcing an application prioritization scheme
  • Ensure secure, high-quality peer-to- peer communication between application services
  • Enable automation and intelligent system-level control to lower the cost of administration, implementation and troubleshooting
Secure Networks Benefits
  • Reduces complexity and risk by embedding active, automated security into the network fabric
  • Improves visibility into the network as a single entity for faster trouble resolution
  • Works with existing, multivendor infrastructures at the core, distribution or edge layers
  • Deployable today across the entire Enterasys product portfolio
  • Provides secure/reliable access to internal and external users based on their role within the organization
  • Maps business policy to network implementation
  • Delivers automation and system-level control to lower the cost of administration, implementation and troubleshooting
  • Enables application growth and expansion
  • Increases productivity through improved access to data/applications
Why Enterasys

Secure Data Center Solution:

  • Provides increased security
    • Offers protection from Denial of Service attacks to critical services
    • Eliminates port scan events
    • Prevents undesirable protocols from entering the data center environment
    • Rate limits non-essential applications
  • Enables centrally administered security and application usage policy for data centers and the entire enterprise
  • Protects the performance of required services
  • Deploys in minutes and may be changed in seconds
Key Features and Services

Secure Open Convergence Solution:

  • Provides advanced security capabilities to protect against:
    • Denial-of-service attacks targeting convergence application assets
    • Voice service theft
    • Eavesdropping (Man-in-the-Middle attacks)
    • Unsecured firewall traversal of convergence protocols
  • Provides intelligent management capabilities that enable operational efficiency through:
    • Centralized and completely automated granular control
    • Automatic convergence endpoint detection
    • Enables policy enforcement down to the user and device level
  • Provides Business Continuity and High-Level Availability through:
    • Prevention of voice service degradation despite security events that cause overall network degradation
    • Multiple levels of redundancy at the network, system and device layer
    • Support of IEEE 802.3af Power-over-Ethernet
  • Greater investment protection and forward compatibility
    • Interoperability with multiple vendor solutions
    • Solutions certification with convergence vendors (currently Avaya and Siemens)
    • Forward compatibility through focus on standard protocol support
Implementation Ensuring Application Security and Business Productivity

A set of intelligent business rules and security policies, which indicate how a data center’ s application resources should be used, is the framework for delivering a Secure Data Center. Policy architecture provides a foundation for application usage and integrates application security right into the data center network fabric.

The Secure Data Center Solution allows organizations to enforce security and application provisioning policies proactively and effectively. To do this, a policy architecture, which maps the “Services” available and the “Rules” that enforce the provisioning and prioritization of the defined services, is developed. In addition, “Rules” that eliminate undesirable and malicious protocols and traffic are developed. Once identified, the Services and Rules are leveraged to build the appropriate configuration in NetSight Atlas™ Policy Manager, Enterasys’ highly graphical, easy-to-use, policy-management tool.

The data center policy guidelines are constructed into a policy profile, which is distributed to the network infrastructure. This policy allows appropriate application access, but filters out all undesirable traffic.

With a Secure Networks Secure Data Center Solution, organizations can benefit from a data center network architecture that allows required business resources to be used, yet eliminates resources and applications that are undesirable or prohibitive. And, as new threats emerge, the Secure Data Center Solution allows an organization to respond quickly and effectively, modifying the data center policy in a single “click” to eliminate or minimize the impact of the threat.

With the Secure Data Center Solution, the organization can ensure efficient and reliable IT services and business processes while keeping these same services safe from attack and misuse. As access to undesirable applications and resources is eliminated, the bandwidth they had been consuming can be used by the business-critical applications and resources. This process of more intelligent use of application resources leads to enhancement of the overall network infrastructure viability and lifecycle.