Telcordia (News - Alert) today announced highlights from new research written by a major independent research firm that sheds light on one of the greatest challenges facing enterprise IT departments: managing the configurations and security postures on thousands of network devices across a globally dispersed IP infrastructure. The new whitepaper details a litany of IP network vulnerabilities due to lapses in security, compliance and proper configuration, and spotlights the need for solutions such as Telcordia IP Assure,

 

The Yankee Group (News - Alert) whitepaper "IP Network Configuration and Vulnerabilities: What You Don't Know Can Hurt You," covers how misconfigured infrastructure, unknown ingress/egress points and basic vulnerabilities to core networking equipment threaten business continuity and affect organizations' bottom lines. That’s exactly the kind of thing Telcordia IP Assure was built to address, Telcordia noted today.

 

The Telcordia offer is a scalable, non-intrusive software solution that detects and helps to rectify configuration errors in IP network devices. Telcordia IP Assure is already in use at many organizations, which use it to improve the security and operations of their IP networks. For example, a high-profile branch of the U.S. federal government in whcih severe security breaches and compliance issues were detected and eliminated is among the customers.

 

"Enterprises now can measure by-the-hour or by-the-minute data on revenue or productivity lost if their critical network connections go down," says Adam Drobot, CTO and president of Advanced Technology Solutions (News - Alert) at Telcordia. "IP Assure significantly reduces costs associated with configuration errors that can add up to millions of dollars per year for a Global 2000 organization."

 

Telcordia will host a Telcordia IP Assure Forum featuring an analyst presenter from Yankee Group entitled "Is Your Network Really Secure?" on Nov. 18.