Proactively find and fix security and outage risks
Use automation to identify, troubleshoot, and remediate the root causes of issues before they disrupt your network.
Solve issues before they impact service delivery
Proactively identify health issues so you can fix them before they result in downtime.
Optimize performance of security infrastructure
Streamline IT operations with automation so teams can focus on optimizing security services elsewhere.
Reduce mean time to resolution
Accelerate troubleshooting by conducting automated root cause analysis without human intervention.
Stay on top of best practices
Automatically assess devices for alignment with changing configuration recommendations from vendors and the knowledge of a community of network practitioners.
Automate maintenance
Reduce errors and save time when you automate routine tasks like configuration backups and checking for license expiration.
What is Infrastructure Assurance?
Infrastructure Assurance avoids network disruption with automation. It is a proactive observability, troubleshooting, and remediation solution for network and security infrastructure like DDI, firewalls, and load balancers. It provides deep visibility and automation to prevent network disruption.
Infrastructure Assurance continuously scans your network and security infrastructure for the signals of risk, performance, and availability issues, and automatically serves up proven solutions that engineers would otherwise have to find and implement manually.
Infrastructure Assurance happens in three stages:
1
Continuous measurement
of security, performance, and configuration metrics, cross-referenced with benchmark data defined by internal policies or external standards.
2
Auto-triage and root-level diagnosis
of issues—like errors, misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, and downtime—as soon as they occur, with contextual awareness of related issues.
3
Automatic remediation recommendations
and certified, production-ready automation elements, based on a knowledge base curated by a global community of experts.
How does Infrastructure Assurance work?
Infrastructure Assurance uses SSH, REST API, and SNMP protocols to connect and run collection scripts on management servers and network devices using CLI commands, SNMP data polling, or vendor-specific APIs.
Management servers
Network devices
Use cases
Infrastructure Assurance for firewalls
Critical service connectivity
Ensure communication with critical external services (like syslog services; NTP, DNS, and identity servers; and threat prevention policies) is available at all times.
Auto-detect security risks and ensure compliance
Use hundreds of automation elements and security control validations to find security risks and compliance violations.
Automate maintenance tasks
Maintenance tasks seldom feel like the most urgent item on the ever-growing to-do list. But they’re critical to maintaining high availability. Automate tasks like certificate renewal and device configuration backup to maintain firewall health and performance.
Automated troubleshooting
Automatically apply proven, device-specific domain knowledge to analyze the root causes of issues as they occur.
Stateful health checking
Compare expected device configurations against current status to find common issues like:
Misconfigurations
Verify configurations against gold standard frameworks to identify and resolve configuration drift issues like:
High availability readiness
Find cross-device inconsistencies that jeopardize high availability, such as:
Infrastructure Assurance for Integrity
Stateful health checking
Continuously assess the health of your BlueCat Address Manager and BlueCat DNS and DHCP Servers to preemptively find and address issues like:
Connectivity issues
Firewall policy changes can break connections between DNS services. Get proactive alerts ahead of connectivity issues, such as:
High availability readiness
Find cross-device inconsistencies that jeopardize crossover high availability (xHA), such as:
Misconfigurations
Verify configurations against gold standard frameworks to identify and resolve configuration drift issues like:
See Infrastructure Assurance for yourself
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