Central Management for your Security Infrastructure 

Can policies really just be maintained once and then rolled out onto the entire network? Yes, with phion. An IT infrastructure benefits from more scalability by configuring gateways and managing the security appliances centrally. In fact, centralised management for the entire IT security is actually the phion management centre’s core value proposition.

Security-conscious companies and managed security providers are confronted with a rapidly increasing number of gateways in their networks. These gateways have to be rolled out, configured and permanently monitored. It is irrelevant here how convenient the installation and ongoing maintenance are for one single gateway – managing hundreds or thousands of systems is definitely a costintensive process that requires an enormous effort by qualified staff.

At the same time a corporate-wide security policy must be maintained constantly at all gateways. As a result, the individual system configurations’ are increasingly interwoven. Even just a straightforward site-to-site VPN tunnel presumes that at least two gateways are coordinated with each other. In larger environments with hundreds of such installations this leads to configuration and operating costs which increase disproportionately and not exponentially with the number of systems.

phion management centres

The phion management centres facilitate the comprehensive management of the entire security infrastructure with profitable resource implementation. The netfence solutions and phionOS-based servers are managed via dedicated and centralised servers. Administrators monitor the status of remote gateways with the phion management centres, manage the netfence-configurations and software, define global rules and regulations and compile information from individual or multiple gateways. The central configurations management comprises not only VPN and firewall policies, but also parameters such as, for example, software licenses. This makes a disaster recovery in less than four minutes possible if necessary.

management reporter

The management reporter complements phion management centre (MC) through on-demand automatic processing of statistics and event data into reports. phion management reporter is a dedicated server system running a novel set of services also intended for usage by non netfence administrators. To this end phion reporter provides an easy to use web front end to query and generate reports out of the date stored in a relational database.

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