The pace of change is high, and the level of security automation is low, creating gaps between defenses and security policy. Organizations have spent countless dollars on host and device based information security technologies that are focused on managing risk at the asset or device level, but have neglected to quantify risk from a macro network perspective.

Paul Stamp from Forrester Research discusses the importance of an emerging paradigm known as network assurance. Network assurance complements host and device based security solutions to round out the risk management equation by measuring the impact of network change on security, availability, and compliance. Experts from Lumeta present actionable strategies for building a network assurance program. By attending this Webcast you will learn how:

• Viewing risk from a network perspective pinpoints areas of vulnerability or unwanted connectivity that would indicate weaknesses in host or device based defenses
• A global view of risk helps focus the deployment of host based vulnerability management or data security technologies
• Network assurance creates a comprehensive set of network facts that improves collaboration between network and security operations
• Bringing unknown assets and address space under the control of network management systems is critical for compliance and audit purposes
• The importance network validation and visibility as organizations build security into the fabric of the infrastructure