The Business Problem

With heavy reliance on Internet and extranet communications, businesses today are constantly forced to open access to their internal networks—leaving their enterprises more susceptible than ever to security breaches and policy violations. To effectively, yet safely communicate via the Internet and extranet, companies need a solution that enables them to:

• Identify threats quickly and easily
• Reduce the deluge of security events
• Respond to these threats by turning data into actionable knowledge and decreasing overall exposure time

The NetIQ Solution

NetIQ Security Manager offers policy-based security solutions for your enterprise designed specifically to protect your confidential data in an increasingly complex and insecure business world. This solution leverages powerful advanced correlation, intrusion protection and forensics and trending capabilities to deliver comprehensive security incident management across the event lifecycle.

Key Features and Benefits

• Reduces exposure time to protect against downtime and loss of confidential data. NetIQ Security Manager reduces detection times through its real-time monitoring for security breaches and policy violations, as well as its extensive notification capabilities. It also optimizes reaction times with automated responses and security knowledge.
• Improves security knowledge by delivering an automated infrastructure that builds internal security knowledge for deployment and customization. You can quickly resolve issues by combining the out-of-the-box NetIQ Knowledge Base with security knowledge specific to your company.
• Increases protection levels and ensures layered defenses are in place to maximize your security posture. With NetIQ Security Manager, you can collect and correlate real-time and archived data from all security systems and devices to achieve true incident lifecycle management.
• Boosts operational performance and improves ROI by centralizing your best-of-breed security products into a central security console, enabling real-time notification and automated response to suspicious activity. NetIQ Security Manager also ensures compliance from all of your security sensors and tools and alerts you about important issues, such as non-compliant firewall configurations or outdated virus signatures and vulnerability test libraries.