KBI 312023 Six Benefits of Argent Omega for SNMP Network Security

Version

Argent Omega All Versions

Date

Wednesday, 9 Nov 2022

Summary

Ability to detect All configuration changes in Cisco and Cisco-like Devices, Routers, Switches and Firewalls

Ability to detect All configuration changes in Cisco and Cisco-like Devices, Routers, Switches and Firewalls

IT Security and Management personnel are immediately notified about all changes

These can be unauthorized changes made from outside attackers or other reasons

Whatever the cause, this feature allows the security team to identify, respond quickly, and mitigate further attacks

Automated Configuration Backups

Backups are an integral part of disaster recovery and business continuity planning

In the event of an attack, IT Security personnel can restore to a previous valid backup to automatically undo any changes made by a malicious attacker

All Configuration Changes Are Logged

Audit trails are a critical component that ensures security and accountability in a Network

Helps IT Security maintain an audit trail of when changes were made, and what the changes were

Alerting On Changes Is Optional

Some network environments have frequent legitimate changes to network configurations

They don’t want to be alerted whenever these changes occur; they simply want to use this feature as a repository of configuration backups

Easily achieved with Argent

Easy Restoration and Recovery

With Argent, recovering from a bad configuration is as easy as copy and paste

Argent allows saved backups to be opened, even as a text file, or multiple saved backups to be exported as Excel files

The configuration data simply needs to be saved and transmitted through the device terminal

Total Network Integrity Built into Argent

Customers can use this new product immediately with Argent Omega

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