Companies are increasingly dependent on cloud environments, mobile devices, hybrid IT and other modern technologies. The widespread adoption of these services is transforming the nature of the corporate network, forcing its limits to go beyond its capacity and creating a much more complex management scenario.

This has caused the need for greater visibility of the entire environment, when using monitoring and management solutions, to increase rapidly.

Network visibility consists of the creation of prevention strategies capable of identifying possible problems in the functioning of the corporate system, in addition to helping companies to be prepared in cases of network attacks.

It is essential in order to be able to control the high volumes of traffic, which can occur at peak times, and to collect detailed information about the users, systems and applications most used in these periods.

In this way, its measures contribute to the reduction of time and resources in the correction of problems and prevent cyber attacks from reaching the corporate network.

Check out 5 security risks that visibility can help your customers solve:

1 - Critical data
Healthcare corporations, financial institutions and government organizations have large amounts of critical information that requires enhanced security. However, it is not just them that need to be concerned with this, all companies have sensitive data that need more attention.

Today, most IT administrators do not have a complete picture of what is really going on within the network and cannot rely on automated analysis tools to identify and eliminate threats quickly.

Intelligent visibility tools can help with this task. They are able to learn attack patterns, even from those that were unsuccessful and use NPBs (Network packet brokers), devices that improve network management and security, to inspect and detect possible dangers

2 - Migration to Cloud
Most companies are already in the cloud and, by choosing one of the models - public, private or hybrid, consequently, they end up losing part of their network visibility. Therefore, it is necessary to complement this movement towards the cloud with solutions that eliminate this “cloudiness” and obtain a high degree of visibility in real time of the operation of the platforms.

Thus, corporations should look for a virtual infrastructure capable of offering an overview of the virtual environment and control tools that speak the language of the cloud.

3 - Attack surface
In the past, companies needed to be concerned with only a single point of entry and exit of threats on the network. However, now, with the increase in the use of mobile devices, Wi-Fi access points, cloud applications and the implementation of the software-defined approach, the number of entry points for these dangers has multiplied.

By using the visibility tools, it is possible to identify which servers receive the most network attacks and even what types of vectors of these threats are more frequent. Thus, companies can adjust their security policies and restrict certain accesses and reinforce targeted defenses.

4 - BYOD Practice
As more devices, equipment and high-speed applications are adopted on the desktop, it becomes more difficult to provide the same user experience. In addition, after adopting the BYOD practice, employees started adding their own switches, access points, data storage, among other things to the network, which ends up subverting the company's security standards, opening doors for threats.

For IT, tracking all actions on all devices is practically impossible. NPBs offer application intelligence that can keep up with the context of data processing, that is, it allows you to filter packets from layer 2 and 4 to reach layer 7. Thus, it is possible to identify hidden applications, mitigate threats and even improve network performance .

5 - Blind spots
The increased complexity of the corporation ends up creating blind spots. The best solution is to implement a visibility architecture to manage user behavior and the functioning of all network resources, thus reinforcing company policies.

Using best practices for dealing with the various risks surrounding the corporate network, IT can take advantage of increased visibility to ensure network performance and quickly identify threats and service failures.

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