• Lumeta IPsonar®: Bringing Better Business Value to Mergers and Acquisitions
• Closing the Security Gap - Why Integrating Network Assurance is Critical to Creating a Comprehensive Risk Management Strategy
  Competitive and regulatory pressures require that IT executives and government program managers deliver a nimble response to customer demands, new security threats, and evolving compliance requirements. To succeed, organizations must make certain that this constant state of change does not destabilize performance and availability, introduce unintentional security risks, or precipitate non-compliance with industry regulations. Organizations need Network Assurance as a key component of their risk management strategies.
  Network Assurance enables organizations to obtain greater visibility into risk, align security policies and defenses based on a complete set of network facts, and measure the impact of network change on security, availability, and compliance.
• Microsoft Vista for Enhanced Network Security
  This paper from Lumeta discusses the steps you need to take when migrating and implementing Windows Vista and provides guidance including viewing the pre-deployment considerations for IPSec, identifying assets on the network, gathering network and host information, and defining policy.
• Building a Network Risk Scorecard: Best Practices for Benchmarking Your Network in 72 Hours
  “Building a Network Risk Scorecard: Best Practices for Benchmarking Your Network in 72 Hours” will show you how you can balance the forces of network change with regulatory compliance mandates using a simple network scorecard that grades your network against metrics related to availability, efficiency, risk, and compliance.
• Solving the Federal IT Paradox: Delivering E-gov solutions, embracing EA and IPv6 – While Maintaining Security and Compliance, A Case Study Analysis
  This report will show you how your agency can implement a network assurance program using Lumeta IPsonar and the Lumeta Network Index to understand how change introduces risk to security controls, business services, and your overall compliance posture.
• Why Leaks Matter: Leak Detection and Mitigation as a
  Critical Element of Network Assurance
  Network Assurance assesses the impact of network change on security, availability and compliance. Modern organizations are discovering that only with a comprehensive set of network facts can true global visibility be achieved and its benefits of reduced network risk be realized. Network leaks or unauthorized connectivity to or from the public Internet are a classic example of the problems that Network Assurance programs uncover. Lumeta, in working with its enterprise customers in the public and private sectors, has seen that leaks can pose serious risk to the integrity of systems and data and are a risky exposure that organizations must mitigate on an ongoing basis. The best way to do this is through the comprehensive visibility of connectivity that a discipline in Network Assurance inherently provides.
• Network Assurance in SCADA Networks: Addressing Security Gaps Inherent in Migration to TCP/IP
  To balance the forces of rapid infrastructure change and the need for high availability in SCADA networks, organizations must solidify the risk management lifecycle by closing inherent knowledge gaps and then working toward automation with full information. A Network Assurance program fills these gaps and addresses their accompanying pain points.

Other Reports Available from Lumeta:

• Adaptive Security in a Changing World - Structured Information Security - A META Group White Paper
• Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) Product View: Lumeta IPsonar - New Horizons in Network Intelligence
• Why Enterprises Need a Formal Network Security-Risk Program
  IDC Analyst Connection Paper
  Read this report from IDC, which discusses the emergence of insider threat as a top priority for leading IT organizations, and provides practical suggestions for prioritizing vulnerability management efforts to combat insider threat.