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Five Frequently Asked Questions

Application Intelligence, Control & Visualisation

Five Frequently Asked Questions

Tough Question #1:
My marketing department needs access to Facebook to build awareness—but I want to block the games... what can I do?
Answer: Application Intelligence, Control and Visualization enables you to guarantee bandwidth and allow access for some applications while restricting or blocking either specific applications, categories of applications or to block application sub-components such as the Farmville game or file transfer from within Instant Messaging applications. You can even create rules in order to block specific lists from accessing these applications. This is all tracked by logging in to the Application Flow Monitor to see, through real-time visualization, the effectiveness of your new application control policy.
Tough Question #2:
How do I ensure that my sales team has prioritized bandwidth to productive Web-based applications like Salesforce.com® over unproductive Web-based applications such as ESPN® Live View?
Answer: Application Intelligence, Control and Visualization easily enables you to ensure bandwidth for key business applications while restricting or blocking application categories such as gaming or streaming video. With this solution, you can select critical applications or groups of applications, specify the bandwidth you would like to guarantee to your specified user groups and create an application control policy to prioritize bandwidth for the selected critical applications and users. Finally, you can check the Application Flow Monitor to see in real-time the results of your new application policies.
Tough Question #3:
My sales team users really need to access corporate Web seminars and videoconferences—but I do not want them hogging bandwidth on YouTube®. What can I do?
Answer: Application Intelligence, Control and Visualization enables you to ensure bandwidth for key Web-based collaboration tools, while restricting or blocking non-productive Web applications such as YouTube. Simply select the critical Web-based applications or urls and choose how much bandwidth you want to guarantee to this group. You can also restrict bandwidth or block non-productive Web-based applications or urls and select the users or group that will be included in this policy. By logging in to Application Flow Monitor, you can visualize the results of your new policy.
Tough Question #4:
I need to be able to scan all traffic simultaneously to defend against malware, as well as visualize and control any type of application on the network. What can I do?
Answer: Application Intelligence, Control and Visualizationwith enhanced visualization and Reassembly-Free Deep Packet Inspection enables you to scan and protect 100% of all application traffic entering your network while simultaneously performing traffic shaping without introducing latency. With the Application Flow Monitor, you get a real-time view of application and user traffic, bandwidth utilization and other user activity. It's easy to export data continuously to any NetFlow/IPFIX analyzer for off-box monitoring, troubleshooting and analysis of historical network activity. Meanwhile, you can continue to adjust your network policies based on critical observations, plus monitor threats that are stopped at the gateway before entering your network.
Tough Question #5:
I need to protect confidential content from being leaked over outbound Web mail transmissions or social media sites. What can I do?
Answer: Application Intelligence, Control and Visualizationwith enhanced visualization and Reassembly-Free Deep Packet Inspection enables you to scan 100% of all application traffic leaving your network, including email attachments and FTP uploads. You can simply create a filter for the type of content that identifies confidential data, and then apply the filter to outbound mail, FTP and other traffic, and set the firewall to block the transfer. By monitoring the logs, you can easily detect the transfer of confidential data. You can also observe traffic patterns with the Application Flow Monitor and adjust network policy accordingFAQ

1: My marketing department needs access to Facebook to build awareness—but I want to block the games... what can I do?

Answer: Application Intelligence, Control and Visualisation enables you to guarantee bandwidth and allow access for some applications while restricting or blocking either specific applications, categories of applications or to block application sub-components such as the Farmville game or file transfer from within Instant Messaging applications. You can even create rules in order to block specific lists from accessing these applications. This is all tracked by logging in to the Application Flow Monitor to see, through real-time visualisation, the effectiveness of your new application control policy.

2: How do I ensure that my sales team has prioritised bandwidth to productive Web-based applications like Salesforce.com over unproductive Web-based applications such as BBC iPlayer?

Answer: Application Intelligence, Control and Visualisation easily enables you to ensure bandwidth for key business applications while restricting or blocking application categories such as gaming or streaming video. With this solution, you can select critical applications or groups of applications, specify the bandwidth you would like to guarantee to your specified user groups and create an application control policy to prioritise bandwidth for the selected critical applications and users. Finally, you can check the Application Flow Monitor to see in real-time the results of your new application policies.

3: My sales team users really need to access corporate Web seminars and videoconferences—but I do not want them hogging bandwidth on YouTube. What can I do?

Answer: Application Intelligence, Control and Visualisation enables you to ensure bandwidth for key Web-based collaboration tools, while restricting or blocking non-productive Web applications such as YouTube. Simply select the critical Web-based applications or urls and choose how much bandwidth you want to guarantee to this group. You can also restrict bandwidth or block non-productive Web-based applications or urls and select the users or group that will be included in this policy. By logging in to Application Flow Monitor, you can visualise the results of your new policy.

4: I need to be able to scan all traffic simultaneously to defend against malware, as well as visualise and control any type of application on the network. What can I do?

Answer: Application Intelligence, Control and Visualisation with enhanced visualisation and Reassembly-Free Deep Packet Inspection enables you to scan and protect 100% of all application traffic entering your network while simultaneously performing traffic shaping without introducing latency. With the Application Flow Monitor, you get a real-time view of application and user traffic, bandwidth utilisation and other user activity. It's easy to export data continuously to any NetFlow/IPFIX analyzer for off-box monitoring, troubleshooting and analysis of historical network activity. Meanwhile, you can continue to adjust your network policies based on critical observations, plus monitor threats that are stopped at the gateway before entering your network.

5: I need to protect confidential content from being leaked over outbound Web mail transmissions or social media sites. What can I do?

Answer: Application Intelligence, Control and Visualisation with enhanced visualisation and Reassembly-Free Deep Packet Inspection enables you to scan 100% of all application traffic leaving your network, including email attachments and FTP uploads. You can simply create a filter for the type of content that identifies confidential data, and then apply the filter to outbound mail, FTP and other traffic, and set the firewall to block the transfer. You can easily detect the transfer of confidential data. You can also observe traffic patterns with the Application Flow Monitor and adjust network policy accordingly.

Call Solved.IT on 0161 924 2348 now to discuss more about Application, Visibility and Control on your network.

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