IT Operations

Asset Management

Asset management, due to its potential financial ramifications, is one of the most important elements in organizational management.  Knowing and managing organizational IT inventory can assist in tracking unused hardware, locate unauthorized installed licenses etc., resulting in significant financial and legal implications.
The organizational inventory list includes all computers, servers, software, licenses, and more.
How can an organization follow up and manage the entire IT inventory while reducing costs?
Vanadium is the perfect solution for organizational asset management.

Network Discovery – while scanning the entire network of the organization, Vanadium performs a comprehensive network discovery. Based on the IT inventory data defined in Vanadium prior to scanning, Vanadium analyzes the inventory status and compares it to the existing inventory on the network. Vanadium outputs a report specifying how many users are actually connected to the network, what kind of software is installed on the network, how many licenses are used legally and illegally, how many licenses are actually used etc. As mentioned, all these factors have significant implications on the organization. For example, financially: Are there any licenses installed and not used? Is there unused hardware on the network? Furthermore, legally: Is there any unlicensed software being used in the organization? Were there any illegal downloads performed on the network?
The ability to reveal all these aspects on the organization’s network assists with cost reduction and maintaining legal compliance.

Software Updates – software updates are import for all organizations as part of their technical and computerized maintenance.
While scanning the network, Vanadium has the ability to discover which programs and software are installed on the network. Furthermore, Vanadium locates those that require updating. The network scanning is quick and comprehensive, detecting updating requirements.

Network Mapping

Another significant attribute of Vanadium is its network discovery capabilities. Network discovery locates all components with IP addresses on the network.

The output of the network discovery is a comprehensive description of the organizational network including all the components and devices on the network.

An important feature of network discovery is asset management. Vanadium performs full discovery and mapping of the network components, creating a detailed list of all the components on the network; most significantly - their location and the various ways to access them.

Network mapping has two main purposes. The first is discovery and management of the components on the network. The second involves a visual aspect, providing an access roadmap to all the information and a description of each component on the network.

Beating the Threats- the Virtual Hacker

One of the main threats on organizational networks is an external network attack.
A network attack can occur following three conditions:

1. Source (the source can access the network externally or internally)

2. Target path

3. Target vulnerability

How can organizations handle the numerous and sophisticated network attacks that occur on almost a daily basis? Vanadium has the perfect and most advanced solution – the Virtual Hacker.The Virtual Hacker is a patented technology developed by Vanadium. The Virtual Hacker scans all components on the organizational network, such as: routers, switches, firewalls etc. It studies and analyzes the path and configuration of the various components on the network. The output is a complete and detailed, real-time mapping of the network.

Network mapping displays all the possible access paths to the different components on the network, it displays all the possible paths to reach and attack the components on the network via the internet.

Enabling the Virtual Hacker to map the network requires:

1.      The ability of the Virtual Hacker to read the firewall.

2.      The ability of the Virtual Hacker to read all the network components.

3.      Vulnerability scans - defining which ports are vulnerable.

The Virtual Hacker Breakthrough

Using objective performance criteria based on speed, efficiency, and accuracy, the Virtual Hacker outperforms all comparative applications aimed at network mapping targeting the defining and configuration mapping of network vulnerabilities.

Vanadium & the Virtual Hacker

Vanadium supports a range of communication systems.

The effective performance of the Virtual Hacker is expressed by operating on communication systems Vanadium supports and vulnerability scans performed through scanners such as NASUS and QUALYS. The Virtual Hacker is an optional module that requires adaptation to different IT environments. Its ability is outstanding and faster than any other existing solution. It enables, on a regulatory compliance basis, a complete separation between the different networks of the organization (Financial, R&D etc.). This kind of defined separation prevents free access to network by unauthorized parties, and enables a more efficient configuration mapping of the complete organizational network.

Case Studies

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