MX Management Server Features
Specific SecureSphere multi-gateway management capabilities include the following:
Centralized Administration
Dynamic Profile, IPS policy, and system parameters for multiple gateways are stored centrally on the MX Management Server. Changes are made on the management server and automatically distributed to multiple gateways with a single click.
Hierarchical Management
SecureSphere provides an extremely flexible hierarchical grouping mechanism that allows administrators to classify the IT assets being monitored. This enables large enterprises, ASPs and MSSP deployments to create groupings of their enterprise by physical sites, customer, business unit, management function or other logical classification.
Flexible User and Role Definition
SecureSphere provides role-based management capability to enable custom administrative roles and groups. Administrators can arbitrarily create roles, grant privileges and assign users to them Coupled with hierarchical management this model greatly eases management as well as security.
Task Oriented Workflow
SecureSphere includes a workflow engine that allows task creation and management This enhances operational efficiency by allowing large and small organizations to focus their efforts in compliance and security projects.
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The Dashboard provides an overall status of all SecureSphere gateways and the applications, servers and databases managed, giving an instantaneous snapshot of enterprise-wide compliance and security status
Unified Audit Data Viewing and Management
SecureSphere's distributed auditing architecture distributes audit collection, data storage and analytical processing across multiple tiers and appliances. The SecureSphere management server presents high-level audit views while distributed gateways handle recording and storage of detailed logs. When compliance managers need to drill down from high-level views to detailed logs, the management server automatically retrieves the required information from distributed gateways. Audit information may be periodically archived to external devices to meet long term audit needs.
Unified Real-Time Alert Monitoring
Real-time alerts originating from multiple SecureSphere gateways and spanning multiple layers (Dynamic Profile, IPS, etc.) are collected, prioritized and presented to the administrator within a single unified view. Alerts notifications may be sent via email, phone, pager, and SNMP messages. There is no need to connect to individual devices distributed throughout the data center.
Centralized Reporting
SecureSphere's robust reporting framework includes a wealth of pre-defined reports, while offering complete flexibility for creating custom reports and templates appropriate for unique reporting situations, and integrating the analytical tools necessary for documenting compliance relevant to specific business environments.
