Catbird Insight automatically and continuously discovers all assets in your virtual fabric, allows the grouping of these assets into logical Catbird TrustZones® and visualizes asset relationships and the east-west traffic flows between them for improved analytics.
Catbird Insight gives you unparalleled visibility into your virtual infrastructure and prepares you for micro-segmentation and SDN. It is a non-intrusive solution that automatically and continuously discovers all assets in your virtual fabric, allows the grouping of these assets into logical Catbird TrustZones®, and visualizes asset relationships and the east-west traffic flows between them for improved analytics.
Benefits |
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Real Time Inventory: You know exactly – in real time – all the assets that exist within your virtual fabric. A business unit within your organization just deployed a new VM? You’ll know about it instantly |
Logical Grouping: You can group assets into logical segments – which we call Catbird TrustZones (micro-segments) – allowing you to structure your virtual fabric to support the needs of the business. In fact, you can group assets any way you want – by application, by application tier, by business unit, by compliance framework, etc. |
Contextual Visualization: You can visualize the traffic flows between Catbird TrustZones. This detailed, real-time view of how traffic is flowing in and out of your logical groups is generated based on NetFlow traffic. |
Analytics: You can slice and dice all information gathered by Catbird Insight. A powerful analytics capability allows you to look for misconfigurations, anomalies, and opportunities to tighten security policies. |
Challenges Addressed by Catbird Insight
Lack of visibility into what is happening within the virtual infrastructure
- No accurate real-time inventory of all virtual assets
- No visibility into east-west traffic
- No flexible way to group workloads around policies
- No visual representation of the virtual infrastructure in a way that's understandable to the business
Lack of security validation within the virtual infrastructure
- Inability to alert on anomalies versus security baseline
- No contextual information based on merging virtualization and security information
- No analytics capability to assess effectiveness of security controls
Seeking guidance on migrating apps from legacy security/networking to micro-segmentation
- Struggle to understand existing application connectivity
- Challenge to model ACLs for security groups / microsegments
- Application owners need visual reassurance that application connectivity requirements will be modeled correctly in micro-segmented infrastructure
Catbird Insight Provides:
DC/Cloud team:
- Get exact and instant inventory of all virtual assets
- Understand how virtual assets - organized into logical zones - interact with each other
- Immediately know when new assets are deployed
Network team:
- Understand traffic flows within the virtual fabric at the vSwitch level
- Prepare for micro-segmentation based on baselining
Application owner:
- Get real-time view into how your application interacts with other virtual assets and users
- Validate application behavior
- Understand application connectivity and firewall requirements
Security and compliance team:
- Validate whether security policies work effectively based on visualizing actual traffic flows
- Determine baseline policies in view of micro-segmentation implementation
- Baseline assessment, then continuous monitoring and alert on drift
