IT organizations must support a wide range of standards and mandates, including PCI DSS, HIPAA, SOX, GLBA, ISO, NSA, DISA, IAVA, and ITIL compliance. Internal standards can help organizations build a consistent and predictable network, and industry standards help advance technology. But for many IT organizations, standards increase staff workload for auditing and reporting.
Whether your organization views industry standards and external mandates as a way to improve practices or as a necessary evil, implementing standards is only part of the story. The real challenge often lies in maintaining compliance over time, especially as standards evolve.
When IT teams use manual processes to maintain network services and manage network change, staff can spend days—or weeks—manually compiling the reports just to prove enough compliance to appease the auditors, while day-to-day responsibilities go unmet.
Infoblox helps organizations implement standards and maintain compliance year-round, so the can eliminate problematic catching-up periods. Our compliance solutions make it easy to implement compliance across the network infrastructure with a five-step process that allows you to:
Infoblox enables organizations to successfully implement and manage compliance standards quickly and more cost-effectively than the traditional manual processes. With embedded automation, intelligence, proactive monitoring and pre-built reporting, Infoblox provides fast time to value for both internal best practices and external compliance mandates. Now IT teams can focus on other critical aspects instead of tedious weeks of collecting, analyzing and tabulating data for auditors.
The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) has become the most widely adopted and comprehensive set of best practices and standards in the industry. Most professionals see ITIL as a way to increase IT efficiency and a means to build better processes. Still, while technical and non-technical executives alike are pushing for ITIL adoption, actual ITIL implementation has been slow because of the additional cost and resources for deployment and verification.
Infoblox helps organizations implement ITIL management and standards with minimum preparation and investment. Our solutions provide automation, expertise and analysis so organizations can reap the benefits of ITIL implementation without the high cost and wasted time of manual realization.
Within the ITIL best practice requirements, Infoblox helps achieve problem management, incident management, change management, availability, IT service continuity, configuration, reporting, and change workflow—just to name a few.
Any organization accepting payments from credit, debit or prepaid cards must prove compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS), which are intended to reduce the risk of credit card fraud. Merchants must either prove compliance via a Qualified Security Assessor (QSA) or a Self-Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ) audit.
PCI DSS poses unique challenges for a network manager or director. Often, a security team is focused on the bigger picture of PCI DSS, deciphering the standards and determining which aspects impact components such as routers, switches and firewalls. But once those elements are defined, the IT staff needs to verify that every device meets the standard and compile reports to prove the process, documentation, monitoring and control factors have been followed.
Without the expertise and correct tools, PCI DSS can be a major headache for network teams. Most IT organizations do not get additional staff for PCI DSS audits, and they are forced to add it to their existing workload.
Infoblox helps our customer not only prove compliance for the auditors once a year, but also provides proactive monitoring and remediation options for network infrastructure devices. Instead of going every device, collecting and compiling information manually, Infoblox automates the tedious, repetitive process and helps ensure you meet the requirements.
Since every network environment is unique, the best way to see the power of the Infoblox solutions is to request a one-on-one, interactive demo. Our experts will discuss your current requirements and future needs, and tailor the presentation to cover the aspects most critical to you. Sign up today.
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