E-NetAware Improves Network Infrastructure Security and Simplifies Management.

FAIRFAX, Va. -- Ensuring network security is one of the most important areas of concern for IT organizations. Emprisa Networks[TM], the leader in smart network compliance, change, and configuration management solutions, today announced that its E-NetAware[TM] NCCM solution tightly integrates traditional network configuration management features with advanced security change management features to improve levels of infrastructure security across multi-vendor IT networks.

"To protect customer confidence in the wake of increasingly complex security threats, today's IT organizations must ensure their networks maintain the highest security profiles and standards. E-NetAware performs real-time auditing, reporting, and enforcement of industry-standard network security policies. When E-NetAware detects an out-of-policy change, the system immediately notifies IT personnel and enables self-healing through automated script building, a unique benefit of Emprisa's SmartMerge[TM] Technology," stated Sherrie Woodring, president and CEO, Emprisa Networks. "In addition, security groups can quickly react to new security advisories through E-NetAware's automated assessment and resolution processes."

When a vendor announces a security or availability vulnerability, E-NetAware empowers the network team to quickly assess and identify the organization's exposure, stage the patch/fix, and automatically generate and push change scripts to each affected network device eliminating the vulnerability within minutes.

Greater change visibility across the network infrastructure results in easier management and greater policy control. E-NetAware provides the necessary tools to control and audit network change; to verify compliance with security policies; and to simplify updates to policies such as access-control lists (ACLs), passwords, switch-port security, VPN encryption keys, community strings, and other security related attributes. In addition, E-NetAware supports a comprehensive closed-loop change management process to request, assess/stage, review/approve, implement, verify, and report changes. Integrations with third party change management systems such as BMC Remedy Change Management enable IT organizations to realize true control over critical business service network assets.

"With E-NetAware, our network engineers and security administrators are able to centrally define, audit, and manage corporate network security policies, with special attention to ACLs. We no longer have to manually update or write custom scripts to implement changes to our policies, or rely on spreadsheets and e-mail for change management. When the time comes to update a policy or implement any type of change, E-NetAware's SmartMerge Technology automatically builds the change scripts, pushes the updates and provides a before and after snapshot of the changes made. E-NetAware's change automation and asset management capabilities save us valuable man hours allowing our engineers to focus their time on our rapidly growing network infrastructure," stated Stephen A. Felicetti, manager, information security, Fox Chase Cancer Center.

About Emprisa Networks

Emprisa Networks, Inc., the leading provider of smart network configuration, compliance and change management solutions, offers solutions for closing the gaps in network management tools to improve the security, visibility, availability, and operational efficiency of multi-vendor enterprise networks. With E-NetAware, organizations can easily automate, audit and enforce network configuration change policies to improve overall network compliance, serviceability and security, thus dramatically reducing the risks associated with manual configuration change. E-NetAware provides support for routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, wireless access points, and other network devices from over 25 vendors. Additionally, E-NetAware offers integrated solutions for numerous third party network management systems to provide a comprehensive view of the IT infrastructure. Emprisa is a privately held business headquartered in Fairfax, VA. For more information or to register for a product evaluation, please visit www.emprisanetworks.com.

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