Maintaining network integrity and security is imperative for ensuring quality service, meeting regulatory requirements, and managing operational risks. Service providers face numerous obstacles to achieving this, including technology migration, staffing and skills shortages, and pressure to accelerate new service deployment. Operational errors are frequently the consequence, as confirmed by industry studies that point to configuration issues as a major source of network downtime, degraded performance, and gaps in network security.

SP Sentinel® is a software appliance for ensuring network integrity, security, and policy-compliance. It performs systematic configuration audits, analyzing an up-to-date model of the production network to diagnose device misconfigurations, policy violations, inefficiencies, and security gaps. SP Sentinel® enables organizations to reduce network outages, ensure network security, verify regulatory and policy compliance, and enhance staff productivity.

Audit your network as frequently as you make changes to ensure policy compliance.

Key Features

• Rules analyze individual devices, groups of devices, topology, and routing information. Hundreds of standard checks incorporate industry best practices published by Cisco Systems, US government agencies, and others.
• Semantic checks of the network configuration diagnose issues not detectable through regular expression-based analysis, addressing routers, switches, and non-configuration file-based devices such as firewalls.
• Audits verify that network security policies have been implemented effectively, and ensure compliance with regulatory and industry requirements such as PCI, DISA-STIG, ISO-17799, NIST 800-53, NSA guidelines, Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, FISMA, and others.
• An integrated authoring environment enables rules customization to meet organization-specific audit standards and requirements.
• Automated notification via SNMP, email, or pager informs staff about critical issues, and comprehensive results are published to an integrated web-based report server.

Pinpoint changes in your network.

Validate proposed configuration changes.