SAN JOSE, Calif., June 30, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Niagara
Networks, the Open Visibility Platform pioneer, today
announced that the Flowmon solution is integrated with
and optimized for its Open Visibility Platform where it is
hosted and receives optimized traffic. Installations
are easy and typically done in 30 minutes or less. As traffic
patterns changed and many companies have shifted to a remote
work-at-home employee base, monitoring and managing Virtual Private
Network (VPN) and other encrypted traffic from remote workers
is essential. The use of VPNs has sharply climbed due to the
COVID-19 pandemic and a shift to working at home. The research firm
Top10VPN reported that VPN demand increased by 44% in the
second half of March 2020.
The increase in VPN usage creates performance, capacity and
security challenges for organizations. VPNs and encrypted
links connect remote employees to vital data, applications and
other resources and enable employees to work productively and
collaboratively despite being distanced from the workplace. At
the same time, VPNs extend traditional network boundaries to
wherever remote employees are located and open organizations to new
sources of threats. Companies have less control and more exposure
in most remote environments, and even ransomware has targeted VPN
connections and a new path into corporate networks. Companies
also need to monitor and manage the performance of VPN connections
as well as the overall impact they make on corporate networks.
The combination of the Flowmon solution and the Open
Visibility Platform serves the needs of NetOps and SecOps team
simultaneously and brings them together, solving both network
performance and capacity issues and security concerns. The combined
solution enables NetOps and SecOps to work together more
efficiently and effectively. Now there is a single pane of glass
understanding of VPNs and the unified solution helps to save
cost on tools with overlapping functionality.
"VPNs are vital lifelines for business continuity during the
massive disruptions of the COVID-19 age but they are also new
conduits for potential cyber attackers, and VPNs are both
subject to and the cause of network performance issues," said
Yigal Amram, vice president of sales
and business development, Niagara Networks. "We are pleased to work
with Flowmon to deliver a combined solution for managing both the
security and performance of VPNs and other encrypted links."
"With so much of traffic now encrypted and such an increase in
the use of remote VPNs, having visibility and management over what
was previously invisible is now a necessity for most organizations.
Flowmon provides a complete and essential solution for monitoring
and managing VPN and encrypted traffic," said Joseph Krenson, Sales Director Americas, Flowmon
Networks.
With the Flowmon solution on the Open Visibility Platform
organizations can:
- Detect malicious or anomalous behavior indicative of a
cyberattack or insider abuse
- Obtain deep visibility into network information to isolate
performance issues in networks, VPNs or applications,
including detailed reporting of round-trip latency
- Detect VPN traffic hogs and top sources for bandwidth or
contention
- Conduct video streaming and video conferencing analytics to
determine quality and demand and identify active sessions with
their usage demands
- Analyze VPN traffic as compared to uplinks to identify slow
performance or performance issues
- Provide detailed attack analysis that can be visible as part of
VPN events catalog
Flowmon is an Open Visibility Technology Partner of Niagara
Networks.
For more information on the joint solution
About Niagara Networks
Niagara Networks™ is a Silicon Valley-based company
and pioneer of the Open Visibility Platform™ to
bring desperately needed agility to network security.
Niagara advanced packet brokers, bypass switches, network
TAPs enables organizations to establish a deployment hub,
solving the traditional problems of deployments while
upholding network performance and reliability and maintaining
security. Niagara also offers openness and flexibility to
accommodate any solution, even proprietary and home-grown ones.
Niagara Networks provides high-performance, high-reliability
network visibility and traffic delivery solutions for the world's
most demanding service provider and enterprise
environments. Our intelligent visibility cross-connect
solutions are installed in the world's most prominent networks,
empowering Security and Network Operations Centers (SOC/NOC) in top
carriers and enterprises with end-to-end visibility and actionable
traffic intelligence across physical and virtual networks
Open Visibility Platform is a trademark of Niagara
Networks
About Flowmon Networks
In a world where technology exists for the benefit of people,
secure and healthy digital environments are essential. That's why
Flowmon develops an actionable network intelligence solution that
enables businesses to ensure their services are running well and
securely, and their workforce is productive. www.flowmon.com
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