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Servers, clients, multiple platforms, multiple departments, firewalls, virus detection software, VPN, anti-spyware, server management tools—the combinations and complexities found in modern data centers are exponential. It is no wonder that 48% of business technology professionals consider managing the complexity of security to be the largest security challenge their company faces.

FireScope brings this complexity under control by aggregating all of the raw performance, security and availability related data from all of your systems and point solutions. All of this raw data is then processed by an industry-tested business intelligence engine, and presented in a fully customizable, AJAX powered, web-based dashboard.

View your Enterprise from a different angle

Spending too much time checking each point solution or system individually? By aggregating all IT operations analysis into a single solution, FireScope allows you to easily view your enterprise as a whole, from an operations perspective. From this view, you can easily zoom down to individual systems or operational aspects, ensuring you have access to the best information available from a single dashboard.

Simplified Enterprise Reporting

Generating reports covering the entirety of your enterprise can be a daunting task, usually involving creating reports from each point solution, manually checking each system for additional metrics, following by hours of trying to figure out how to bring it all together. FireScope removes the stress and wasted hours by providing a single reporting framework that encompasses data from every networked device. Not only does this help you consolidate around a single reporting format, but also provides unheard of flexibility in reporting.

Adaptable to your changing needs

In today’s constantly changing business environment, your focus and concerns will have to change with it. Today, your biggest concerns may relate to the security of your critical systems. Tomorrow, you may need to focus on long term capacity planning or compliance monitoring. As your needs change, FireScope supports you, allowing you to fine-tune your view in every dimension – the systems to monitor, which aspects to monitor and over what period of time to analyze. Think of it like an electron microscope aimed at the health of your environment, infinitely adjustable to ensure you are getting the most accurate prognosis of any issue.

A single interface for all of your critical tools

The FireScope interface is built from a JSR-168 compliant portal, which allows additional components to be hot-deployed. Any application, such as third-party support applications, can be easily added to the interface. Each page within the portal can be completely customized by each user. For instance, a firewall administrator can setup a page that lists all firewall security alerts with an embedded SSH terminal right next to it. And with FireScope’s support for Single Sign-On, access to your third-party tools is as easy as logging into FireScope. Learn more about the FireScope portal architecture.

Support for multiple IT frameworks

Many organizations are embracing IT control frameworks such as ITIL and CoBIT to help achieve and maintain regulatory compliance. As part of FireScope’s inherent ability to adapt itself to the unique needs of your organization, FireScope can be configured to follow your chosen control framework and therefore improve the level of communication provided. This not only makes transitions to frameworks such as ITIL easier, but also helps organizations continue to follow these processes over the long term.

A cost effective solution

Each component of the FireScope solution is based on industry tested open source solutions. This drastically reduces the cost and maintenance of a FireScope appliance, while ensuring a continuous flow of enhancements over the coming years. With solutions starting at $10,000, FireScope is a cost effective way for your IT operations to return to simplicity without sacrificing performance and security.

For more information about how FireScope can help your organization manage complexity, schedule a demo today and experience it for yourself.

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