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The IT Swiss Army Knife - Cisco Network Compliance Manager

By jheary on Sat, 11/29/08 - 4:47pm.

Cisco Network Compliance Manager, Known as NCM, is a standout management product that performs. Need a network device audit based on things like PCI, HIPAA, ITIL, etc? Need to roll-out config and software changes to several devices? Need a real-time visio network diagram? Need a super detailed inventory of all your network devices? Want a live PSIRT alert system that tells you exactly what devices need remediation, downloads the code to fix it with, and produces a report showing if the device can support the new code? Need a configuration archiving mechanism with one click roll-back? Need full configuration change management with workflow even changes not done through NCM? Well, you guessed it NCM has all that and a few other things worth noting like it supports about 30 other vendors products. See the screenshots of these features throughout the blog.
Given the corporate focus on regulations and standards this year, several have been searching for a tool to help them become, remain, and prove compliance. Picture this, your PCI auditor asks you to provide them with tons of information. You login to NCM, click on compliance center, click on PCI audit, click run and email the auditor a real-time PCI audit report of your devices… Swish, nothing but net!

Now some screenshots of the other features I mentioned:

About Cisco Security Expert

Jamey Heary, CCIE #7680, sits on the PCI Security Standards Council- Board of Advisors where he provides strategic and technical guidance for future PCI standards. Jamey is the author of Cisco NAC Appliance: Enforcing Host Security with Clean Access. (Check out all of Jamey Heary's books from Cisco Press.) He also has a patent pending on a new DDoS mitigation technique.

Jamey sits on several security advisory boards for Cisco Systems and is a founding member of the Colorado Healthcare InfoSec Users Group. He is an experienced speaker who is recognized as an expert in network security architecture, regulatory compliance, and routing and switching. His other certifications include CISSP, CCSP, and he is a Certified HIPAA Security Professional. He has been working in the IT field for 15 years and in IT security for 10 years. Jamey is currently a Distinguished Systems Engineer at Cisco Systems.

 

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