Endian offers comprehensive network awareness for IT and OT networks
EndianOS UTM 6.5
Monitor activities on the network to improve IT security: Network Awareness is one of the key new features Endian offers in its SECURE DIGITAL PLATFORM. It not only helps detect anomalies but also significantly reduces the workload for administrators.
"With digital transformation, the number of connected devices is growing constantly, and monitoring them is one of the key challenges for IT security," said Endian CEO Raphael Vallazza. "With Network Awareness, we have now created the ability to visualize network activities so enterprises know what is going on in their networks at all times."
Through the ENDIAN SECURE DIGITAL PLATFORM, devices, machines, and systems from the OT area as well as from the IT area can be connected, secured, and managed via a central tool. With the new "Network Awareness" feature, administrators are now able to identify unusual data traffic at a glance and block it if necessary.
Reduce workload, increase IT security
"Another risk to IT security is the shortage of IT security staff coupled with increasing threats," Raphael Vallazza continued. "In all our developments, we have therefore set ourselves the goal of making administrators' work as easy as possible to conserve valuable resources.”
Network traffic is displayed in visually appealing dashboards. Assets are mapped in real-time and sorted depending on their network activity. For more information, administrators can click on the graphical representation of a device or data flow to get detailed network and application information.
Since administrators don't have time to always keep an eye on the dashboards, Endian has integrated "Network History." Here, traffic is recorded so IT admins can view and review it after the fact.
EndianOS UTM 6.5 with many new features
The basis for the new feature is a complete revision of the EndianOS operating system, on which all Endian products are built. EndianOS is a hardened Linux that provides outstanding IT security and scalability.
In addition to network awareness EndianOS UTM 6.5, introduces many other new features: With the new products, it is possible to set up to 32 network zones. This makes it possible, for example, to set up a different level of protection for areas with a particularly high need for security, such as production lines or accounting, as for office IT.
Optimization of the firewall functions provides extra security: the Geo-IP function enables data traffic to be filtered according to country of origin. Time-specific rules based on days of the week or times of day also prevent unauthorized access outside the specified time of use. In addition, support for network objects has been added to facilitate the grouping of IP assets into logical segments.
With the new EndianOS UTM 6.5 release, Docker containers are deployable on all Endian solutions. This allows customers to benefit from the potential of edge computing, which enables the operation of microservices, as well as hybrid or remote applications at the edge.