Four Key Network Visibility Attributes to Protect Your Business
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Enabling the Right Decisions at the Right Time
Network visibility, the ability to view your network traffic – data, voice, video, web services – endto-end, and provide filtered streams of traffic to tools for further analysis, is a critical function of Network and Security Operations and essential to conducting smart business today. Gartner network analysts Andrew Lerner, Danellie Young and Vivek Bhalla wrote in their research note entitled “Avoid these ‘Bottom Ten’ Networking Worst Practices” that:
“Limited Visibility is one of four operational worst practices.”
And their recommendation:
“Infrastructure leaders should reprioritize network visibility and invest in tools to aid such insight. If the network budget is a challenge, pull funding from security and application teams, as visibility provides direct benefits for them.”
This paper focuses on why network visibility is critical to your business, and four key attributes of best-in-class visibility solutions you must explore before selecting a visibility platform. These include:
- The overall performance the platform delivers
- Confirming 100% visibility with advanced filtering, ensuring no lost or dropped packets
- Simultaneous leverage of advanced visibility features
- The ease-of-use required for greatest staff productivity and error elimination