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ServicePilot 360
NBA for z/OS

End User Experience: Network Control Policies

Your network provides a mission critical link with customers, suppliers and your organization. Maintaining network policies is imperative for ensuring quality of service and minimizing operational risks. Industry experts confirm that a lack of network control policies and adequate monitoring is a major source of network downtime, degraded performance and gaps in network security. Without the necessary controls , network breaches and unauthorized usage could cost you a great deal of money.

Organizations of all sizes use the network as the primary means of facilitating communication and the flow of information. The network manager must be alerted on network policies violation to ensure the delivery of services to end users. They also need to constantly understand if the quality of service on the network is good and when abnormal applications are consuming excessive bandwidth or threatening network security.


Network Control Policies
Identify which application consumes the most
bandwidth and which Users (IP address) uses it

ServicePilot 360 is complete solution with a wide range of features to enforce your network policies, protect service delivery, and notify you when employees are using the corporate network for personal use that consumes bandwidth.

  • The 360 administrator can define network policies and correlation rules.
  • An alert notification can be sent on rules
  • Publish comprehensive reports and automatically notify key staff about critical issues
  • Identifying unusual behavior, such as an application trying to talk to a number of servers or connect to multiple ports
  • Example of rules that can be easily configured
    • Detect users connection with social media or blacklisted IP address
    • Traffic to a branch office or department during a closed period
    • Scanner and Denial of Services(DoS) detection

NBA for z/OS can detect meaningful changes in behavior that indicate threats and/or malware, support enterprise network usage policies and reduce compliance costs

  • Uses Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) technology to detect suspicious connections on the network.
  • Analyzes network traffic to determine the similarities with the user-defined rules and triggers with conditions applied to network, applications, and system availability and performance.
  • Quickly discover and respond to misuse, unauthorized access, and security threats to maintain required levels of security for end users.
  • Alerts key personnel in real-time when certain patterns are identified or an unauthorized device or activity is detected.
  • Provides full diagnostics for Enterprise Extender/HPR, OSA, FTP, Sysplex, and Telnet.