Network Visibility solution: monitor, analyze & act
Understanding your network’s activities is as crucial as using an up-to-date GPS when traveling. NordLayer’s Network Visibility solution offers businesses the clarity they need, ensuring both data protection and optimized performance. Discover Network Visibility significance and how you can leverage its full potential.
OVERVIEW
What is Network Visibility?
NordLayer's Network Visibility solution provides a comprehensive view into your network's activities. It fuses Activity Information, Server Usage Analytics, and Device Posture Monitoring, enabling companies to monitor network traffic and performance meticulously. Additional insights not only enhance control over data protection and flow but also strengthen the foundation of a robust network security infrastructure. Simply put, it empowers businesses to truly understand and manage what's happening within their network.
IMPORTANCE
What you must know about your network?
For robust security and optimal performance, understanding the intricacies of your network is paramount.
Who?
Ensure only authorized individuals access your network. Knowing who's connecting is essential to protect proprietary and confidential information.
When?
Monitoring connection timestamps is critical. Regularly track tool usage and be vigilant for unusual access times, like in the wee hours, which might indicate potential breaches.
What?
Recognizing devices that connect to your network is fundamental. Verify their alignment with company security standards and compliance needs.
How?
Stay informed on server performance and usage patterns. Identify unexpected service interruptions and ensure the correct protocols are in use to maintain security and efficiency.
HOW WE HELP
Enhance your network clarity with NordLayer features
Step into a clearer network experience with NordLayer. Our features are designed to give you a 360° view, bridging the gap between security and visibility, ensuring you're always in the know.
Activity Information
NordLayer provides a comprehensive snapshot of network member activities. Track connections, member details, device IDs, and even administrative actions, such as gateway creations and feature adjustments. This detailed overview aids administrators in making informed decisions.
Server Usage Analytics
Experience enhanced monitoring through visual interactive dashboards in the Control Panel, IT administrators can easily monitor NordLayer's service usage. Grasp service usage trends with hourly to monthly insights and review protocol data to evaluate your server load. Track individual user connections to various NordLayer servers, gaining clarity on usage patterns.
Device Posture Monitoring
NordLayer's Device Posture Monitoring tool simplifies the task of managing network devices. By setting compliance rules and receiving alerts on deviations, administrators can maintain a consistent security posture across devices. The feature not only provides visibility into who connects based on predefined criteria but also reports on non-compliant devices, allowing admins to gauge risks and plan countermeasures accordingly.
ADVANTAGES
Network Visibility benefits
Enhanced security
Network Visibility lets businesses closely monitor network traffic, enabling prompt detection and response to security threats. It's crucial for catching unauthorized access and unusual behaviors.
Optimized network performance
By offering insights into the network's inner workings, Network Visibility aids in recognizing bottlenecks, latency issues, and system failures. This paves the way for an informed and efficient work setting.
Efficient troubleshooting
With detailed insights, troubleshooting becomes more straightforward. IT teams can swiftly analyze traffic patterns to identify and address the root of issues.
HABITS
Top practices for a transparent network
Harness tool efficiency
Continuously monitor user activities and session times within your network, identifying underutilized functionalities and potential inefficiencies.
Uphold compliance
Achieve consistent compliance by maintaining encrypted connection reports, ensuring adherence to industry regulations, and auditing user VPN activity.
Future-proof flexibility
Ensure your Network Visibility solutions are adaptable, scaling effortlessly as your business and its connectivity needs evolve.
Trusted by the best
Explore how companies similar to yours have enhanced their operations while ensuring security, compliance, and assurance online through NordLayer's tools.
NordLayer allows us to enable our growing team of over 1,000 employees in 51 countries with only a 5-people cybersecurity team.
Hostinger
With NordLayer, our hybrid working team can collaborate securely and pass geo-restrictions to advance our customer experience.
Unbounce
Our health insurtech is about trust for securing client data—NordLayer helps us ensure safe connections and comply with regulations.
Rey.id
With NordLayer, we can validate employees’ access to company resources wherever they are, and speed isn’t an issue.
ScottMadden
No more struggle with unexpected disconnections, constant re-logins, lost logs & client conversations once we onboarded NordLayer.
Eldorado.gg
We are committed to supporting people in need. NordLayer is our helping hand in complying with data security regulations to confirm clients are safe.
Canada Mental Health Association
OUR INSIGHTS
Learn more about Network Visibility
Additional info
Frequently asked questions
Network monitoring focuses on collecting metrics like NetFlow or SNMP to track specific device performance, reacting to precise queries such as device overloads. It's often more limited, providing a snapshot based on the predetermined areas it's set to monitor. On the other hand, Network Visibility, like NordLayer's solution, provides a holistic view of the entire network. It delves deeper, ensuring no blind spots exist, and captures comprehensive data, like full packet captures, to truly understand all network activities.
Improving business Network Visibility begins with adopting comprehensive tools like NordLayer. Such tools offer detailed activity information, server usage analytics, and device posture monitoring. Regularly monitor connections, recognize all devices connecting to your network, and stay informed on server performance and usage patterns. Lastly, ensure you set compliance rules and receive alerts on deviations to maintain security across devices.
Main challenges in enterprise Network Visibility include detecting unauthorized access amidst growing network complexities, recognizing and addressing network bottlenecks and congestion, and efficiently troubleshooting with timely insights. Furthermore, ensuring consistent security posture across devices while maintaining compliance can be daunting. As networks evolve and expand, it becomes increasingly challenging to maintain a comprehensive view without the right tools and practices in place.