Managing and securing large IP networks has become nothing short of a nightmare for service providers and government organizations due to the increasing complexity of these networks. Defending against a gamut of innovative and sophisticated network attacks adds to the complexity.
In order to begin to manage and protect today's large, complex IP networks, service providers and government organizations need to first be able to understand, in specific detail, what traffic is actually going over the network. With Narus' capabilities to "see" traffic from the network through the application layer, Narus is in a unique position to help our customers understand their traffic. Once they understand it, Narus provides the applications that allow them to protect, manage and provide government compliance for their networks.
IP-based networks in service providers and government organizations are among the most complicated, behaviorally unpredictable computerized systems in the world. Increasing complexity, global reach and high degree of sophistication among hackers creates an environment where highly evolved, dynamic network attacks can wreak havoc. NarusInsight's breakthrough traffic intelligence applications provide service providers and government organizations with much earlier anomaly detection, with industry-leading accuracy, providing more reliable protection from unwanted, unwarranted and malicious traffic.
The explosive growth of IP-based data services has prompted lawmakers to expand existing wiretap laws to cover new modes of communications that leverage IP, such as VoIP and e-mail. While wiretapping circuit-switched voice networks is a relatively simple process of listening at a specific physical circuit, lawful intercept on IP networks requires the ability to monitor large, heterogeneous networks and extract only targeted data from the huge volume of information constantly speeding through the network.
Voice over IP (VoIP) is a promising source of new profits as broadband deployments proliferate. However, as service providers begin their mitigation to VoIP, they are faced with a host of emerging issues. Service providers need to understand the traffic that is traversing their networks, classify, analyze and mitigate gray or unmanaged VoIP and other unwanted traffic.