Business Policy Driven
Using OverDrive's Control Center, business rules are captured using common semantics. For example, the request "Allow members of the sales team secure access to the CRM application" becomes an OverDrive Access Policy that defines discreet relationships (access and security) between members of the sales team and the CRM application. Since OverDrive integrates with Active Directory, the sales team could be defined by an Active Directory group or other LDAP identifier.
The OverDrive policy acts as the ‘control’ document for governance and ongoing change management. As the business changes, new policies can be constructed, existing policies can be modified and every change is tracked and logged for audit reporting. For example, as sales personnel come and go or the CRM server moves virtually or physically, OverDrive automatically adjusts underlying network services maintaining continuity throughout the life cycle of the Access Policy.
Automates Device Level Configurations
OverDrive automates the initiation, deployment, control, and management of network services using business-level policies. Once created, policies are translated directly into device-level configuration syntax and pushed-out to routers, switches, firewalls and other devices deployed on the network. This is all done automatically, without the need for pre-written configuration templates, scripting tools or tedious command line sessions. This is a critical feature for new cloud- based service delivery models or dynamic environments where services are expected and delivered 'just-in-time'.
Automates Network Service Delivery
OverDrive policies control and define the underlying network infrastructure services that provide end user access and security to both physical and virtual resources. These services include:
- Routing
- VPN
- Switching
- VLAN
- Firewall Ports and Protocols
- ACL (firewall and switch)
- DNS
- DHCP
- Security (ACL / 802.1x)
- Remote Access / Mobile User
- Identity Based Network Access Control
Eliminates Security Gaps
As users, virtual resources or underlying network services and devices change across the service delivery infrastructure, access and security models break down requiring costly manual involvement to identify the problem and rebuild the service. Many times these constant manual changes to complex network services leave gaps in security due to simple oversight by overworked network and security resources. OverDrive ensures that underlying access and security parameters remain in effect and will automatically notify administrators if for some reason a defined access or security policy is violated.
Identifies Potential Conflicts
Any change made to a production environment has the potential to cause a conflict or interruption of deployed services. OverDrive understands the complex interdependencies between resources in both physical and virtual computing environments and alerts the network administrator about configuration, access, and security conflicts prior to changes being pushed out to devices that may impact the production environment.
Enforces Compliance
OverDrive provides a complete solution that satisfies multiple audit controls and reporting requirements for Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPPA, PCI and other federal mandates in regulated industries. With OverDrive, policies control and define all aspects of network-based access and security configurations. All changes are made at the policy level where a full and complete history of changes is tracked and managed.
Integrates into Existing Network Support Platforms
OverDrive has been designed to integrate with and share information across the existing back-office systems used to control the network infrastructure. OverDrive has a powerful SOAP/REST API that can produce or accept structured XML data feeds to be shared with other configuration, network and performance management systems.
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