IPsonar Overview

Lumeta IPsonar® is the industry’s only network discovery product which discovers every asset on a network, including assets not currently under management and maps the connectivity between assets and networks to help with issues like Mergers & Acquisitions, IT Compliance, Cybersecurity, Critical Infrastructure Protection, Data Leak Prevention, and Large-scale Network Transformations and Roll-outs.

IPsonar provides visibility into every IP asset, host, node, and connection on the network, performing an active probe and mapping everything that's on the network, (not just an IP range that is supplied for scanning) resulting in a comprehensive view of the entire routed infrastructure.

IPsonar fills gaps in existing network, security and risk management processes, enabling IT organizations to balance compliance and change, maintain service availability, strengthen security, validate policy compliance across the enterprise, and increase cost efficiency. IPsonar functionality includes:

• Network Discovery – Identifies all network address spaces, routing devices and connectivity flows across the network (including “stealth” assets, i.e. hidden devices that do not respond to queries) utilizing advanced multi-protocol discovery technology, and creates a comprehensive route-based topology that identifies a network’s true perimeter.
  Host Toplogy Visualization / Layer 2: New, optional product module supports layer 2 topology mapping, stealthy device identification, guest network and extranet security, VLAN compliance and Virtual Machine identification.
• Host Discovery – Detects all known and previously unknown network devices by conducting a census of IP addresses across protocols.  Flags devices unrecognized by official network inventories for remediation.
• Leak Discovery – Reveals unauthorized connections between a network and another network, sub-net, or the Internet, and determines whether access is outbound, inbound or both.  Leak discovery highlights unknown connections into other organizations (e.g., legacy divestiture connectivity) or to the Internet.
• Device Discovery – Identifies web services, wireless access points and IP applications active on hosts and devices – including those not owned by the client or its employees – pinpointing resources for which tested ports are active.  Additionally, Layer 2 discovery matches a device’s unique MAC address with its assigned IP address, providing crucial information for asset management and diagnostics.

IPsonar’s credential-less and agent-less approach minimizes disruption to operations and scales to handle the largest networks.  IPsonar is lightweight and safe for use on large networks even during production hours, operating essentially at the level of network “noise” and using only properly formed packets to elicit benign responses.  Intuitive reports and color-coded maps generated by IPsonar present micro- and macro-level views of findings.  The Lumeta Network Index summarizes scan information from IPsonar in a powerful executive scorecard.

Lumeta’s clients rely on IPsonar to:

• Provide a comprehensive network topology;
• Provide an accurate view of what’s connected to the network;
• Identify previously unknown devices and internet leaks;
• Validate policy compliance across the enterprise;
• Eliminate gaps between security policy and operational reality; and
• Optimize deployment and enhance the value of IT security and network management tools.