What is Network Security?

Network security is a combination of policies and configurations of software and hardware systems designed to protect your network from undesired attack.

Domotz brings awareness to all the devices on the networks you are monitoring. Domotz maps the network you are monitoring and shows you specific details about each and every device on that network, including ports that may expose vulnerabilities.

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What is Network Security?
Why is Network Security important?

Why is Network Security important?

As business networks evolve, their complexity increases. As a result, when IoT devices enter the network, security becomes highly important for businesses of all sizes.

The lack of a reliable network security process can compromise your business because you may not be aware of an issue until the damage has been done. Security attacks can hurt your brand, cause data loss, and damage your business in general. In addition, many companies suffer from numerous network security problems without ever actually realizing it.

Being able to rely on a good network security process reduces the risk of data loss, theft and attacks.

Domotz is a valuable addition to any security process, bringing insight and knowledge to you about the various devices on the network and how they may affect your security process.

How does Network Security work?

Network security combines multiple layers of defenses throughout the network. Each network security layer implements a different combination of policies, processes and controls. Above all, network security must be connected and configured through adequate technology.

Domotz helps ensure that networks remain within the company’s policies and processes by bringing awareness to new devices on the networks that have specific controls in place. Using Domotz gives piece of mind that monitored networks are working as expected.


What are the advantages of a good Network Security System?

In today’s world, data security is a central concern of any organization. Network security management is mainly focused on identifying key areas of risk and mitigating that risk to the highest level.

Here are some of the main benefits of adopting a comprehensive network security process:

  • Become Risk-InformedThe creation of good security policies takes a central role in your network security strategy. Being able to rely on a solid security system enables organizations to become more resilient to risks and have a cybersecurity forward posture. What is important, and what companies need most, is being informed of the potential risks to prevent them before they become real issues for the organization.
  • Mitigate RiskThe right network security solution will help your business minimize the financial impact of a breach if it does occur. While a good network security strategy alone will not completely eliminate risk, it will help reduce the chances of an attack.
  • Build TrustAssuring a good security level for your business boosts client and consumer confidence. In fact, compromised security can harm your brand and reputation.
  • Create a Security CultureA competent network security solution can help you analyze your security level and behavior to gain knowledge and create a security culture.

Domotz values the benefits of a good network security process and you can see how we achieve this on our security at Domotz page.

What are the advantages of a good Network Security System?

How a good Network Monitoring System helps you keep your network secure?

A good Network Monitoring System must identify,classify and proactively alert you to new devices that are on your network. Furthermore, the system should continuously scan the network for changes to the infrastructure and the devices on that network.

When changes occur to devices on the network, or the network infrastructure itself, a good Network Monitoring System will promptly bring awareness to the operator through active alerts, or even into the PSA tools and documentation systems being used by the network administrators. Being able to quickly act upon these changes through secure connectivity helps network administrators resolve issues and close potential vulnerabilities within the network should be another key benefit to a good Network Monitoring System.

Some of the major benefits of using a good network monitoring system are:

  • Identification and Classification of ALL devices connected to the network you are monitoring
  • Network mapping and topology of Network Infrastructure, including Firewalls, Routers, Managed Switches, Wi-Fi Access Points and Unmanaged Switches
  • Port Scanning to understand which devices on the network have ports that are available for management, or which could be signs of vulnerabilities on your network
  • Secure connectivity to each and every device so that those devices can be configured and managed appropriately
  • Sensor and Service Monitoring to bring more details and awareness to device and network specifics that help diagnose and detect network issues and potential vulnerabilities to the network
  • A Cloud-hosted service, that has built-in redundancy ensuring that data stored and the configuration of these services are backed up on a continuous basis
  • Use of standard browser technologies or a web-based applications that allows a user to connect to the service from anywhere, securely and with the latest security updates

A good network monitoring software brings you full knowledge of your connected systems. These tools can help you improve your network security by automatically scanning networks and improving your Network Security Process. Above all, such systems enable IT departments and Managed Service Providers (MSPs) to enhance good network security tools, keeping their business more secure.

Key features of a good Network Monitoring Solution that helps you keep networks secure?

01. Automatically Discover, Identify and Classify Devices

A good network security process should rely on network monitoring software that automatically scans your network to discover, identify and classify all the devices that are on that network. The identification and classification should automatically detect information such as MAC Address, IP Address, manufacturer, make, model and type of device. Flexibility to modify location information, or synchronize with your documentation tools, helps keep control of your assets to protect your network and increase your network security. Awareness of device specific details, such as OS Versions and communication ports, help expose potential vulnerabilities that may be on your network.


02. Network Awareness and Configuration Management

A Network Monitoring Solution will help you better understand how your network is configured, both graphically in the form of a topology map, but also provide you with back-ups of critical configuration files within the network infrastructure. By documenting the network in such details, you can easily understand real-time changes that are happening on the network. A good Network Monitoring Solution will store the configuration files and allow you to revert to previous configurations in the case of unwanted changes to the network.


03. Network Monitoring Alerts

When it comes to network security, it’s essential for the users to receive notifications when a new device joins the network, which could be a threat to the network. With Network Monitoring and Alerts functionality you can receive notifications for events like connection lost/recovered, new device discovery alerts, security issues alerts, and alert settings for network performance trigger thresholds. A good network monitoring solution should monitor all network-connected devices on the network. More importantly, such a system should report to the cloud any device status changes in real time.


04. Authentication Services

To help maintain security of the network, a Network Monitoring Solution must take advantage of Multi-factor authentication and/or Identity Access Management tools.

Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) is an access methodology that requires two separate forms of identification in order to grant access. This added level of security makes it much harder for unauthorized users to gain access to your systems. Like Two-Factor Authentication, Single-Sign On (SSO) services and Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), can be used to ensure the identity of users accessing your networked systems.

A good network security system will leverage SSO/SAML services so that users can have a single Login and Passcode while maintaining tight controls on verification and validation of the users. This further minimizes the ability for unauthorized users to gain access to the network systems you manage.

Enabling 2FA and/or SSO/SAML for your team means that login to your user portal won’t be possible with just the username and password. It will also require verification that can only be obtained from a 3rd party authenticator application.

How a good Network Monitoring System can help you keep your network secure?

Why Domotz is an essential component of your Network Security Process, keeping your business secure?

How does Domotz network monitoring software keep your business secure?

Any Network Security Process will require proper maintenance, management and awareness of the network, including the infrastructure itself and awareness of the devices that are on that network.

Domotz achieves all the qualities of a good Network Monitoring Solution. More importantly, as cloud-based service, Domotz is continuously up-to-date with the latest security features and functions and will proactively alert you to new devices, changes in the network infrastructure and device status. Domotz is a web-based application and can be easily accessed from anywhere, and has a mobile application, so that you can be informed of any of these changes in real-time, from anywhere in the world.

Domotz leverages the latest Identity Access management technologies and incorporates SSO/SAML and two-factor authentication to ensure that it is you that is accessing your networks.

Domotz has been built with solid principles around the security of our cloud service, we are proud to share those principles, and how they are applied on our infrastructure.
Learn more information on Domotz System Security Standards.

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