Internal and External Compliance in a Box
For IT organizations, IT compliance includes internal best practices/gold standards and external governance mandates. The IT organization initiates internal IT compliance standards to build a consistent and predictable network, while the IT industry often imposes external mandates to advance the technology. Common external mandates or best practice standards include PCI DSS, HIPAA, SOX, GLBA, ISO, NSA, DISA, IAVA, and ITIL compliance.
Organizations appreciate best practices as a way to standardize the network, but they decry the increased workload for auditing and reporting, often delaying implementation of IT compliance until required by an upcoming periodic audit. 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 eliminates these problematic catching-up periods and keeps organizations in full compliance year-round.
Infoblox delivers IT compliance management in a box. With a solid understanding of all network infrastructure elements, their holistic behavior, configurations and changes, Infoblox enables compliance in the easiest and most efficient way possible. Instead of being reactive, users receive a list of violations for remediation, and simple one-click reporting verifies compliance. Over 5,000 of the world’s top organizations have embraced Infoblox IT compliance management to solve their compliance issues.
Challenges
IT Compliance adds new challenges for the network infrastructure
When building and maintaining a secure and compliant network, many IT departments do a great job of deploying the standards across the network. But once the standards are defined, most IT teams move to the next activity and do not revisit IT compliance issues again until the audit is required.
There are five best practices steps for successfully implementing compliance across the network infrastructure. When an organization follows the best practices, the amount of time and resources saved can be enormous. The Infoblox compliance solutions make it easy to following the five-step process. Infoblox allows you to:
- Easily define standards - IT teams must understand and define the pertinent internal or external standards and the impact on the network infrastructure
- Deploy standards - Since standards are unique and have different requirements, different devices will have different policies, so the IT team must assign the right policies to the right devices
- Provide proactive monitoring - The first configuration is normally correct, but modifications over time often cause the violations, so organizations must continuously monitor settings against standards
- Take action with fast remediation - If there is a violation, correcting the problem right away provides more value and security instead of waiting until the yearly audit
- Automated and built-in reports - External mandates require audits and proof of compliance, which can be time consuming for IT organizations
Infoblox Solutions
The power of network automation and IT compliance with Infoblox
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.
A key component of compliance is proving control and detailed auditing capabilities. With user-defined roles and detailed tracking across network change, DNS, DHCP and IP address management, users can verify the proper procedures and management are in place to show control for any audit requirements.
Key Infoblox capabilities
- Embedded expertise - Built-in rules, policies and best practices (including PCI, ISO, DISA, NSA, STIG and IAVA standards) eliminate the need for in-house compliance expertise
- Ease of deployment - A simple interface quickly assigns pre-defined and/or custom policies to a single device, range of devices or entire network with a few clicks of the mouse
- Proactive monitoring - By monitoring current settings with compliance standards, any rule or policy violation triggers an issue alert with detailed cause analysis
- Remediation - When there is a violation, users can quickly schedule a job, run a command or use auto-remediation options to return the device to policy
- Reporting - One-click reporting reduces the time and effort to prove compliance for internal executives or external auditors
- Control - User defined roles and responsibilities ensure proper procedures are set and followed for security purposes
- Tracking and auditing - Detailed analysis, tracking and logging is automated to monitor and isolate planned or unplanned activities across the network infrastructure
Demos & Resources
See the power of network automation and control in action
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.
Additional resources
To learn more about how Infoblox can help you control and automate DNS, DHCP, IP address management and network configuration, change and compliance management, visit these additional resources:
- Overviews: Summaries of Infoblox and our solutions
- Data Sheets: In-depth descriptions of the Infoblox solutions, product lines, services and maintenance
- Case Studies: Real-world success stories from Infoblox customers
- White Papers: Business-level overviews and best practices in network services and network infrastructure management
- Solution/Tech Notes: Detailed technical discussions and instructions on network integration and specific applications
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