Submitted by Heidi Gabrielson, NetScout Product Marketing Manager
NetScout has just kicked off a program aimed at helping state and local government agencies meet the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) objectives “to help prevent or minimize the impact of terrorist activities and to aid in first responder efforts to reduce recovery time”. Of course, being in the network performance management space, the manner in which we can help is to ensure agency networks run at peak efficiency, especially during times of crisis. After all, the network plays a crucial role in achieving the DHS goals of good data sharing between agencies and quick access to emergency information.
In order to keep those networks and mission-critical applications humming along, IT teams need more than ‘phone bill forensics’. Just like the largest enterprise customers, government agencies need accurate, detailed packet-level information for troubleshooting the really gnarly problems. This level of information can only be obtained from continuous packet capture and recording, such as that delivered by NetScout’s InfiniStream.
NetScout’s nGenius and Sniffer solutions support government networks during times of crisis as well as during everyday use by
- Ensuring cost-effective operational stability and flexibility of the network environment
- Reducing the time to recovery in the event of a disruption
- Protecting operational integrity and citizen services by proactively identifying changes in network and application usage
- Supplementing traditional IT security and information assurance initiatives with deep-packet forensic analysis
For more information on NetScout’s DHS program, check out this video and let us know what DHS initiatives you are currently supporting.
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