APCON: Total Network Visibility—Like Never Before

With a strategic intention to reduce costs, increase service delivery speeds, and achieve greater flexibility, enterprises are increasingly deploying their mission-critical applications in virtualized environments—a shift that has proved successful so far. However, nothing comes for free. According to Richard Rauch, APCON’s President and CEO, “virtual service innovation, coupled with network expansion needs, increases challenges for security and monitoring. In some situations, virtualization results in a loss of network visibility, with no ability to monitor potentially dangerous traffic flows.” To that end, APCON partners with RSA Security to offer IT organizations and data centers with total network visibility to fight against emerging security threats. The firm ties RSA Security Analytics with their intelligent network monitoring switches and advanced packet manipulation capabilities to roll out a total security solution with threat detection and analytics capabilities needed to counteract evolving threats.

Monitoring as a whole requires real-time visibility, and high-powered analytics coupled with long-term data retention—RSA Security Analytics solution does it all with its ‘capture infrastructure’ and ‘analysis and retention infrastructure’ features. The highly configurable solution enables real-time collection, filtering, enrichment, and analysis of network packets as well as log data. APCON IntellaFlex, a set of advanced monitoring switches, complements RSA Security by providing network forensics and packet capture devices with customized data streams aggregated from multiple points on the enterprise network. APCON’s innate capabilities to gather and manipulate data at packet levels facilitate subjecting data traffic to RSA Security Analytics’ decoders for security and threat analysis. The combined approach prevents data loss and enables collection of more data per packet capture, deduplication for tool optimization, and packet slicing to meet compliance needs.

“By combining the high-level capacity and reliability of APCON with RSA’s industry-leading security solutions, businesses can obtain new levels of insight to enhance network security and performance,” extols Rauch. With such a system in place, enterprises can gain complete visibility into data traffic workflows to eliminate blind spots across logs, networks, and end-points.