Ixia: Better Visibility and Stronger Defenses in Public Sector IT
Nowhere is the pressure to secure and extend the value of investments in IT greater than in federal agencies and infrastructures. Ixia solutions advance both objectives, giving IT solutions providers multiple ways to expand sales within the framework of federal budgets and buying cycles.
First, we add essential visibility into the network. Awareness is growing within enterprises and government agencies around the importance of eliminating blind spots and inefficiencies in physical and virtual networks and data centers.
Visibility starts with physical and virtual taps and other devices used to access data from network links, but goes well beyond. True visibility means applying intelligence that assures the right security and monitoring tools receive exactly the data they need, as reliably and efficiently as possible.
Ixia’s Vision ONE™ network packet brokers (NPBs) delivers the advanced features – like de-duplication and load balancing—at line rate, without dropping packets, while its Hawkeye solution adds live-network monitoring ideal for change management. NPBs extend the life and value of investments in monitoring tools during data center upgrades. Vision ONE integrated with Cisco Nexus switches provides deployment flexibility, lowers cost, and offers VARs a competitive advantage.
VARs also leverage Ixia’s unrivaled solution portfolio includes specialized, innovative offerings to help public sector customers harden defenses:
- BreakingPoint™ security testing validates defenses, aids in buying decisions and helps ensure ROI on firewall upgrades and other major initiatives
- ThreatARMOR™ reduces the burden on security infrastructures with high-volume filtering of unwanted traffic based on IP address, geo-location and proven malicious behavior
- iBypass switches maintain high availability in the event of device, link, or power failure
- Application and Threat Intelligence (ATI) providing timely global data via the cloud
Last but not least, use Ixia’s world-leading network test solutions and services to validate the success of virtualization projects – SDN, NFV, continuous integration and continuous development – and rollouts of new services and applications such as voice over IP (VoIP), mobility, unified communications (UC), and Big Data.
Ixia offers new ways to add insight and value, improve ROI, and bolster security. To learn more, contact ixia@synnex.com or visit www.ixiacom.com
GDPR is almost here—and it’s not just a challenge for EU-based clients
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) deadline is approaching fast and it does not only impact European Union (EU) companies. Every country that does business with EU residents must comply by May 2018 or face steep fines1 while placing customer relationships at risk.
At the heart of compliance with GDPR, like other regional and vertical industry regulations, is the ability to demonstrate secure handling of customer data. Residents’ personal data must be secured, at-rest or in-motion, and the term “personal data” extends to a wide range of private or professional data including names, addresses, photos, email addresses, bank details, social postings, medical information, and even – as somewhat of a new twist—Internet Protocol (IP) address.
And while most European organizations began the transition to GDPR compliance in 2016, those outside the EU are largely behind schedule, and perhaps not fully aware of the requirements and effort they face.
Ixia test and visibility solutions bring you closer
As with virtually any major shift in doing business that involves IT, having an intelligent visibility architecture in place facilitates GDPR compliance on-premises, within the cloud, or as a hybrid deployment. Ixia partners are uniquely positioned to help customers – in and outside the EU – with multi-faceted solutions:
- Data Masking Plus feature on Vision network packet brokers (NPBs) secures Personally Identifiable Information (PII) such as a credit card records, Social Security numbers, and also IP addresses
- Pervasive access to traffic on every network segment and in the cloud
- Integrated threat intelligence to block traffic from malicious IP addresses
- Efficient, integrated SSL decryption
- Traffic filtering based on application, location, browser, device, and other user-defined parameters
- Testing of security defenses against realistic threat profiles
- Professional Services to help assess readiness and define strategies