Congruity Inspector™

Network Quality Assurance Made Easy

How do you verify network technology is working effectively? Is the firewall configured right? Are filters missing content? Are policies being followed? If you are like most people, the answers lay in device system logs. Collecting and interpreting them is technically tedious and time consuming. Congruity Inspector removes the complexity and effort delivering consistent, clear reports through an automated Network Quality Assurance process.

Congruity Inspector collects data directly from the network, decoding protocols and analyzing communications' content over a 7x24 operational cycle. The reports provide unbiased status verification of internal controls, bandwidth use, key systems: firewall, IDS, Email, hosts, workstations etc., everything a decision maker needs to manage effectively. It enables a Quality Assurance process with no effort that would otherwise take an engineer or network consultant weeks to complete.

To run a business efficiently, quality must be managed. Congruity Inspector's content analysis features profiles all on-line communications, a principle tool of business operations. An integrated 20,000 word dictionary matches all words contained in Web pages, Email and file attachments (including social security number masks and credit card number masks) , providing users with a powerful way to understand how the network is being used. It also highlights compliance gaps and identifies offensive content, SPAM, and confidential files moving over the network.

Key Benefits:

• Automation Improves IT productivity, reduces costs
• Requires minimal technical resources to operate
• Reduces audit preparation time, improves results
• Reduces network disruptions and helpdesk calls
• Enables consistent, unbias quality review
• Improves management, planning and budgeting
• Improves audit results for 3rd party service providers

Key Features:

• Fast & easy installation, non-disruptive to network
• Automated One-click operation
• Profiles all communications & content identifying words & general context
• Comprehensive Network Quality Assurance Base-line metrics
• Comprehensive penetration tests
• Firewall Policy status & effectiveness (inbound/outbound)
• Endpoint inventory & usage status
  • Applications in use
  • On-line time
  • Exposures
• Server inventory & usage status
• On-line communications (SMTP, POP3, Web-email, IM, P2P)
• File attachments
• File uploading/download
• Remote desktop
• Windows Updates (patches)
• Content (confidential, offensive)
• Requires zero FTE to own or operate
• Audit archiving feature creates a comprehensive encrypted file for compliance obligations, forensic or quality reviews
• Passively monitors every network flow on every port for TCP, UDP and ICMP protocols
• Fully-integrated web-based application, does NOT require external database or other application software to operate
• Delivers consistent, comprehensive and cost-effective profile of control, policy and usage status

Inspector Generates the Following ComplianceReports:

• Firewall Report/Penetration Test
  Identifies open ports, services, protocols and associated user details. Identifies external network addresses by Country Codes to help determine the source of exploits, tampering or unwanted attention. Verifies Internal control and policy effectiveness.
Report Example
• Web Use Report
  Profiles the single biggest consumer of network resources and business productivity. Profiles overall & individual Web use, highlighting what sites are accessed, when and by whom. Quantifies productivity impact.
Report Example
• Email Systems Report
  Comprehensive Email Report including statistics on SMTP, SPAM, POP3, file attachments and communications content. Illustrates how email comes into and leaves the protected network. Provides individual user account & file attachment drill-down detail.
Report Example
• File Transfer (up/download Status)
  Lists dangerous files & software sent through Web and email, identifying file names, date/time, types, size and devices that requested them. There are over 100 file types tracked.
• Internet Search Terms
  Highlights words or phrases users type into search engines providing insight into how the Internet is really used.
• Network Inventory
  
  • Workstations
    Lists of all internal workstations including all protocols in use, servers contacted (date/time stamp) and access graphs.
  • Servers
    Lists of all internal servers/services, from source-to-destination with transcripts including external network Country Codes with point-n-click reverse look-up to identify whether external users are friend or foe.
  • LAN/WAN Bandwidth & Performance
    Highlights operational usage profile, peak & off-peak utilization which helps with capacity planning or pinpointing the source of performance problems.
  • Protocols (perimeter to core)
    Highly interactive report log of all protocols (TCP, UDP, ICMP), ports and associated vectors entering & leaving network.