Network Performance Management in support of IT Standards and Regulatory Compliance

The increase in societal scrutiny of public corporations and service organizations has led to a number of regulatory initiatives, such as Sarbanes Oxley for financial disclosure, Basel II in banking, and HIPAA in the medical industry. Because of the central role today’s networks play in the delivery of business operations and services, the IT department is wholly impacted by these external regulations. In fact, many leading companies are even adopting best practice models, such as ITIL or COBIT, in order to gain service efficiencies and to be readily accountable to their organizations, end users and regulatory bodies.

The NetScout Solution for IT Standards and Regulatory Compliance 
The NetScout Performance Management Solution provides the high-definition visibility into the network traffic flows, i.e., the applications, that have are the basis for today’s business operations. This insight shows you how, when, and by whom the network is used, providing the accountability demanded by regulations or in support of key business objectives. In addition, the NetScout Solution strengthens network efficiency, helping you quickly restore service, manage network capacity, and understand the users’ quality of experience in support of business-critical service continuity.

• Monitor all applications and business processes on your network, including those subject to regulation, new or custom applications deployed in support of compliance, or activity indicating inappropriate use
• Report the response time of key business applications to verify service level compliance, e.g., HIPAA standards for electronic healthcare transactions, or to demonstrate the continued improvement of business processes for an ITIL implementation
• Benefit from unified performance management to serve a number of job functions within the IT environment, helping to reduce costs associated with IT management
• Streamline the troubleshooting workflow in support of process improvements with nGenius’s intuitive functionality and superior performance management architecture

Learn how you can use NetScout supports:

• ITIL - ITIL changes by manaing the performance of networked business operations
• PCI Compliance - PCI DSS compliance for optimizing the performance of networks involved in processing credit card payments, while maintaining high levels of security and privacy