Serving as an open deployment hub, the Open Visibility Platform hosts any networking or security solutions directly on the Network Packet Broker appliance and provides them with the appropriate, pre-processed, and decrypted network traffic to deliver comprehensive content visibility and control to SecOps. The Open Visibility Platform brings new value to channel partners in deploying security solutions faster and easierwith less threat of internal roadblocks.
Open Visibility Platform- the Power of Agile Visibility
Niagara’s Open Visibility Platform (OVP) is the flexible deployment hub for cutting edge applications, Giving you the freedom to choose and spin-up the best solution for your SecOps and NetOps needs. Integrated intelligent switching fabric capabilities empowered by visibility intelligence ensure that the solution will get the right traffic in the right way, without further encumbering the operations of deploying a new solution.
Address the NetOps and SecOps Challenge The ability to deploy a security or a networking solution in the network has been a long, complicated process – one of the least agile. Niagara’s Open Visibility Platform brings security and network operations together, so security and networking teams can focus on common objectives instead of operating independently with different goals. The platform removes the restrictions of deploying new network technologies and can host any virtualized solution, old or new. It can also accommodate proprietary solutions and ad-hoc solutions used temporarily for testing purposes. Open Visibility Platform brings a higher level of agility to security and offers the optimal choice built on the principles of digital transformation to delive optimal benefits to the visibility layer.
Open Visibility Platform Benefits To Visibility Layer
Not tied to closed garden offerings of a particular vendor.
Enables agility and flexibility by providing a deployment hub to easily host and serve multiple security and networking solutions. The deployment hub is a high performance/high reliability appliance that meets stringent demands for the core networking reliability, scalability and performance required by networking teams.
Intelligently deliver traffic and configure policies and rules to establish traffic flows to and from solutions. Determine the logical sequence of traffic being sent to the hosted applications as needed. Policies, actions and traffic steering can be triggered to address host application failure and failover conditions.
Powerful combination of traffic intelligence and data processing. Processing utility functions, such as deduplication and decryption performed within OVP secure and low latency domain – carrying out these tasks centrally on a visibility platform can boost performance of individual security apps or devices.
The platform enables intelligent tool chaining, which is important for establishing the order of security operations. There has to be logical sequencing and management of network security. For example, a web or application firewall should be in a path before an intrusion detection system (IDS) or an intrusion prevention systems (IPS), and each must be treated differently. In addition, network requirements can be upheld to ensure performance and availability and prevent solutions from impairing the network. This way, IT can stay one step ahead of potential problems or blind spots as the environment changes.
