Network Quality Assurance Base-lining

Know your network

International best practice standards such as CobiT, ISO27001, ITIL, ISF or NIST all share a common framework for IT management and controls. In order to manage myriad networking devices, technologies and policies at-hand it is important to have accurate and objective baseline usage and performance metrics. The baseline sets expectations. When new controls, policies or procedures are put into place, a new baseline is established. Congruity Inspector offers a consistent, objective method to verify, document and assess network quality assurance baseline values.

Network Quality Assurance Base-line Elements

• One week (168 hour) operational baseline, highlights peak, average and minimum usage trends by hour and day for all usage activity recorded
• Tracks, categorizes and measures every communication flow in & out
• Tracks and categorizes all detected devices by IP address, DNS, session activity and bandwidth (inbound & outbound)
• Graphs and measure bandwidth consumption at LAN/WAN gateway
• Identifies external users by IP address and Country Code with individual activity logs
• Tracks Email system statistics and individual email account details
• Tracks firewall policy statistics for both inbound and outbound rules
• Documents firewall penetration test status and statistics, highlighting performance and usage activity for each port, service and associated devices
• Characterizes all on-line communications content contained in Web pages, email and file attachments
• Tracks content filtering effectiveness (Web, email, Spam) identifying offensive words
• Tracks and lists all files and software uploaded & downloaded via Web and email and by which device with date/time stamps
• Tracks and lists all protocols and ports in use
• Tracks Web usage, total amount of time spent on-line and most accessed sites by sessions and data transfer.
• Tracks and lists "Internet Search Terms" users type into popular search engineers indicating how the Internet is actually being used