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Greg Fazekas

Men&Mice at VMworld 2018 Las Vegas Part 2: Network and Security

Organizations with well-considered DNS, DHCP and IP address management (DDI) strategy in place, are less vulnerable.

Aug 14th, 2018

As we mentioned in Part 1 of our 2-part VMWorld series, we’re returning to VMWorld in Las Vegas, August 26-30, (Booth #2124) and focusing on two main tracks from the agenda: Data Center and Cloud and Networking and Security. Our first post, discussed the advantages of our newly released Men&Mice Suite v9.1. Here we’ll discuss its networking & security advantages.

We already discussed how The Men&Mice Suite v9.1 supports Unix/Linux, Windows, and Cisco IOS and stretches into the cloud with functionality across Azure DNS, Amazon Route 53, Dyn, NS1 and Akamai Fast DNS, as well as IPAM in AWS, Azure and OpenStack.  Further, it can be dropped on top of an organization’s existing infrastructure to manage, sync and automate network changes, authorizations and provide comprehensive insight into large-scale networks through one unified dashboard.

NETWORKING AND SECURITY

Organizations with well-considered DNS, DHCP and IP address management (DDI) strategy in place, are less vulnerable. Access to systems is binary; either you have access or you don't. Proper DDI management can help prevent vulnerabilities because critical resources are better protected through fine-grained access control, for both authorizing individuals and authorizing systems, which DDI offers. But DDI services vary in their offerings.

Deployed in a high-availability configuration as a management and automation layer on top of some of the world’s largest networks, the Men&Mice Suite supports thousands of concurrent users and API connections, with millions of managed IPs and DNS records, for automation and provisioning.  DNS updates and IP address allocation through workflow from provisioning systems is accomplished in milliseconds.

The Men&Mice Suite’s fine-grained access controls, ability to filter and record through its audit trails the network changes made across various on-prem and cloud services in a network, and reliable, compatible APIs, give organizations a strategic advantage to mitigate network vulnerabilities, limiting the impact of human error and attack probes, who otherwise would be more likely to go unnoticed.

xDNS redundancy is a focal point for our newest, 9.1 release. It’s designed to mitigate exposure to DDoS, ransomware, and other attacks; while keeping the transparency that plays a great role in security itself. We’ve also added a ‘read-only’ option within xDNS redundancy groups in Men&Mice Suite v9.1. With it, network managers can protect their configurations from spreading an otherwise isolated problem to the entire network. Together with the support of Active Directory zones in xDNS groups, organizations can easily bring their on-prem DNS configurations to a cloud environment and vice versa, proactively minimizing common network availability issues.

Enterprise organizations require exemplary network functionality and security. Much of that security comes from fine-grained control and visibility, especially when the sprawl of IT resources scale up. Recently, John P. Mello Jr. reported on the inherent, large-scale threats faced by critical infrastructure and enterprise organizations. The TechNewsWorld article, interviewed several security and network management companies, including Men&Mice, to learn various ways to protect against such threats.

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