Develop a Sixth Sense About IT ...

By Mark Hall

August 21, 2006 12:00 PM ET

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... before you go adventuring on your network. Prior to sending out teams to plug holes in your network, you should use one of RedSeal Systems Inc.'s SRM 3000 security appliances to gather data on the network's risk profile, says Johnnie Konstantas, senior director of marketing at the San Mateo, Calif.-based company. She says that the appliance's software gathers system data from routers, firewalls and servers and then creates graphical risk and threat maps based on parameters such as patch levels, application traffic patterns and access control lists. Konstantas says that a chief security officer within a company can use the risk map to prioritize what parts of its network to fix first, and IT staffers can use the threat map to drill down into the specifics of problems and get information about potential solutions. For example, the map can point them to a patch that's needed for a router. Late next month, Red Seal will add support for PatchLink Corp.'s automated patch management tools. Pricing for the SRM 3000 starts at $25,000.

Read more about hardware in Computerworld's Hardware Knowledge Center.

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