Codima Inc. Launches Robust IT Network Discovery And Enhanced VLAN Discovery Enabling Cost Efficient IT Asset Management

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Posted on 15th August 2008 by admin in Codima

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Codima, Inc. a global provider of best practice software tools for VoIP and IT Asset Management today announced the introduction of new additions to its flagship IT Asset tool autoMap™. The enhanced Network Inventory and Visualization solution encompasses VLAN discovery with ease and speed, extended support to over 4,500 device types and robust IT network discovery.

Automated IT network discovery seeks to radically improve cost efficiency, eliminate time-consuming manual tasks and increase accuracy.  The new enhanced autoMap™ version introducing robust IT Network Discovery allows IT managers to clearly identify IT assets and to discover VLAN’s with speed and ease. These enhancements create a powerful tool for baselining business critical enterprise IT networks, performing network auditing and ensure compliance with corporate governance.

Codima Discovery Engine™ conducts the discovery process, detecting unmanaged and managed devices on any IT network. The comprehensive discovery process supports over 4,500 devices types and supplies
extensive information on what IT Assets are installed in any IT infrastructure. A true time saver, the automated discovery provides an accurate inventory simplifying budgeting and network auditing.

Leveraging the unique ability to visualize any IT network directly with Microsoft® Office Visio®, autoMap™ creates network topology drawings and VoIP topology views that can be displayed on a webpage and shared between colleagues. The visual overview gives a broader user base within an organization access to IT Asset information and makes complex information easy to present to others facilitating IT planning and decision making.

autoMap™ also runs discoveries across multiple IT networks from one single point. The Multi Site Scheduler has proven to be a useful function for NOCs (Network Operations Centers) and MSP (Managed Service Providers) who need to provide network topology maps and asset reports that their clients can access from a web server.

“Our customers rely on autoMap™ to bring visibility into their IT networks and to manage their network auditing. autoMap™ get high scores for its ability to identify IT assets, and with the new Robust IT Network Discovery and VLAN discovery our customer are even better equipped to improve their IT Asset Management.” said Christer Mattsson, CEO of Codima Inc. “SMB’s as well as large organizations and service providers today realize that a small investment in automated network inventory can bring significant cost savings.”

ABOUT THE NEW ADDITIONS TO autoMap

  • Speed up on VLAN discovery
  • 4,500 Device Types supported
  • Robust handling of the discovery when browsing devices that might give other SNMP browsers problems due to their non standard/incomplete SNMP support

ABOUT autoMap

  • Create topology drawings of any IT network directly in Microsoft® Office Visio®
  • Reduce maintenance costs and save time with automated processes
  • Save network topology drawings to a web server – view topology drawings as a web page
  • Improve network planning and operational efficiency – view Subnet and VLAN topology, see where devices are connected
  • Perform a Microsoft® Baseline Security Analysis
  • Identify managed and unmanaged devices
  • Automate discovery runs across multiple sites
  • Automatically identify SIP phones, servers and gateways
  • Easy to deploy – no need to install proprietary agents – uses existing SNMP and WMI Agents.
  • Easy to use – only three parameters needed to start the discovery process and have total visibility
  • Assist in network support – network design
  • Rationalize equipment – identify how many routers/switches have available ports
  • Avaya Compliant

AVAILABILITY:

  • Codima Toolbox is downloadable and a free trial of autoMap™ is available at www.Codima.ca/eval/

  • autoMap 5.30 is available worldwide through Codima Partners.

IMAGE: Codima VLAN Topology

Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements:

This Blog post contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, including but not limited to statements regarding the Company’s beliefs and expectations about the performance and benefits of its technology; marketing and commercialization activities; and our beliefs regarding research and development efforts. These forward-looking statements involve certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ. All forward-looking statements herein are based on information available to us as of the date hereof, and we undertake no obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances occurring after this date.

SOURCE: Codima Inc

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How Have You Protected Your Organization From Web 2.0 Security Threats?

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Posted on 6th August 2008 by admin in FaceTime

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Securing today’s Internet requires more than simple Web filtering. Web 2.0 applications, real-time communications and the world of social networking present additional security challenges – spyware, rootkits, information leakage, and non-compliance with regulatory and e-discovery requirements.

The Internet has changed. Employee initiated traffic is no longer just e-mail and Web browsing. The new Internet is dominated by Web 2.0 apps, instant messaging, social networking, P2P file sharing, VoIP and other collaborative applications.

Employees – especially the new generation of workers – often introduce these consumer-oriented applications onto the corporate network. Some are used to socialize, others to gain efficiencies in the workplace, but they all circumvent existing security infrastructure making it difficult for IT to gain visibility and control.

Securing today’s Internet requires more than simple Web filtering. Web 2.0 applications, realtime communications and the world of social networking present additional security challenges – spyware, rootkits, information leakage, and non-compliance with regulatory and e-discovery requirements. At the same time, organizations are recognizing the productivity and cost benefits of some real-time communications and want to enable their use. The challenge remains: how do you mitigate business risks while allowing employees to collaborate?

The Solution?

FaceTime Communications has developed what it dubs the Unified Security Gateway (USG), which provides a single solution that enables organizations to get visibility into and control over the use of social networking and other Web 2.0 activities, as well as over standalone real-time communications applications like IM and P2P and unified communications environments like Microsoft Office Communications Server and IBM Lotus Sametime.

USG enables companies to safely let their employees use FaceBook, LinkedIn, MySpace, and other personal and professional social networking sites. With USG, enterprises can

  • Manage access to and use of applications within social networking sites like Facebook according to established acceptable use policies
    • Lower the risks from inbound threats and outbound data leakage
    • Meet employee needs without impacting productivity or security
    • Maintain regulatory compliance through logging and archival.
  • Keep protection on track with dynamic updates of new social networking sites and applications hosted by those sites
  • Benefit from a single point for enablement, access management, security and control for web and real-time channels
  • Protect investment in security today by providing a platform on which future web-borne threat prevention can be built

With flexible deployment options, USG fits seamlessly into existing network topologies to offer the highest level of security with zero latency and a low total cost of ownership.

Your Next Step? Meet with a FaceTime expert and get informed!

  • Learn how the Internet landscape has changed and why traditional security solutions fall short on instant messaging, social networking and other Web 2.0 applications
  • Learn why organizations like Gartner recommend that IT managers look at broader secure Web gateway solutions that go well beyond URL filtering controls
  • Identify security and compliance best practices for all Internet applications
  • Translate Acceptable Use Policies into real-time policy enforcement on the network
  • New methods for gaining visibility over rogue users and applications
  • Plus get all your Web security questions answered in a live Q&A session with our experts

To sign-up for a demo please go to: www.Optrics.com/contact.aspx

To learn more About Facetime Unified Security Gateway download the data sheet by going to:

www.Optrics.com/downloads/facetime/facetime-Unified-Security-Gateway-datasheet.pdf

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