In the networking world’s ever evolving threat landscape and stringent regulatory standards, ensuring configuration compliance is critical. Failing to meet industry standards like GDPR, HIPAA, NIS2, and PCI can cost organizations billions and damage reputations beyond repair. To achieve compliance, avoid penalties, and ensure the robustness and security of your network, organizations not only need to establish proper compliant configurations but also need to monitor for change on an ongoing basis.

Network compliance

Organizations are required to follow the latest industry standards like GDPR, HIPAA, NIS2, and PCI to mitigate the ever-increasing security risks to network resources. Beyond industry standards, organizations must also enforce internal corporate best practices and security policies to meet their unique business requirements.

The cost of non-compliance

Human error during network configuration or a flawed automated compliance check process can lead to security breaches, exposing sensitive information or causing extensive network outages. Additionally, organizations can incur massive costs by failing to meet network configuration compliance standards. According to a report from the Ponemon Institute, organizations average over $14 million in costs associated with non-compliance. Fines, penalties, business disruptions, revenue and productivity loss, and reputational damage can cost organizations billions, and the financial impacts continue to rise.

Network compliance using OpenText Network Automation

In today's world, a network administrator's top priority is to ensure the heterogeneous network infrastructure is in compliance with industry standards. However, without proper automation tools in place, scrutinizing every configuration change deployed to the network becomes an overwhelming task. 

OpenText Network Automation (NA) enables organizations to maintain their network infrastructure in compliance with the latest industry standards and vendor vulnerability notifications. It also allows network administrators to define their own network security policies based on their specific business needs.

Network Automation security policies

For every detected configuration change, NA evaluates the change and generates reports or events if the change violates any security policies. NA also performs regular, scheduled compliance checks for the entire network, ensuring continuous compliance.

NA Compliance Center

Network administrators can easily generate comprehensive compliance reports for all network resources for further analysis or auditing.

Network resource compliance report based on severity

NA also empowers network administrators to enable auto-remediation for security policies, ensuring swift resolution for security policy breaches, minimizing downtime and security risk.

Node level compliance details

To get the historical context of your network compliance, NA can be integrated with OPTIC Reporting. This integration allows NA to push compliance data into the OPTIC Data Lake, enabling customers to build their own custom dashboards using OTPIC Reporting for more robust analysis and compliance oversight.

Out-of-the-box non-compliance reports

Sample customized compliance dashboard

OpenText Network Automation is an essential tool in the network professional’s kit, maintaining and reinforcing network configuration compliance, reducing the risks and costs associated with non-compliance, and ensuring a secure and efficient network infrastructure. To learn more about NA, check out our Practitioner Portal.

written in collaboration with Arulkumar Ponnusamy | Lead Software Engineer

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