Closes up hidden and as a result, critical security holes in your SNMP management by remote systems

What information travels unprotected around your network?

When using network management software, communication with remote networks protected by firewalls becomes a real challenge. This derives from the fact that most management solutions are based on SNMP communicating via IP (UDP). Secure communication is especially problematic if VPN is out of the question or the used IPSec protocol does not conform to the latest standard.

SNMP is an open standard and is easy to manipulate. The sender of an SNMP package cannot be identified beyond any doubt, as packages can be faked easily and this, in turn, could lead to serious trouble. Eavesdroppers can very easily decrypt SNMP datagrams, as they are open and are therefore known.

Handle your network like a closed community...

Entrance only with permission

With NiCE SecurePoll, you can use three additional measures. You are able to ensure the authenticity and path of each network management package, which crosses a firewall or enters an insecure network.

First of all, you can tunnel SNMP datagrams and ICMP echo packets via TCP, which means that you will only have to open two TCP ports for the network management communication in your firewall.

In addition using TCP is a better prevention against datagram decryption (or spoofing). In this way, you can make sure that information is not compromised when crossing firewalls. SecurePoll helps you even more by specifying the communication partners of the network management traffic. In conclusion datagrams with suspicious or missing information are filtered.

This three-way approach is the NiCE solution to the problem of keeping your network safe and reliable without needing to modify or slow down IP traffic.

Ensure a healthy and running network infrastructure

The network infrastructure provides the foundation for the entire business. Whether managing an e-business, providing internet services to customers or managing a company's internal IT infrastructure, a secure and healthy network is the heart of your business.