Nokia NetGuard

NetGuard Nokia is a solution portfolio, allowing to provide protection of both traditional, and cloud infrastructure and also end users and IoT-devices from cyberthreats.

The portfolio of NetGuard includes:

• NetGuard Network Security is a set of solutions (Certificate Manager, Core Network Security) for application the politician of access and the network resources checked the practician for the purpose of ensuring protection against a broad spectrum of threats.
• NetGuard Endpoint and IoT Security is the network solution for protection against the malware stationary, mobile and IoT-devices (Internet of Things). It is applied to detection of malwares and minimization of their influence on the user experience.
• NetGuard Security Management is a set of solutions for protection of physical, virtual and hybrid mobile networks against cyberthreats. Allow to implement identification of users, configuration management, the analysis of compliance to security requirements.
  • Security Management Center: the centralized configuring, monitoring and analytics for safety features in multivendor networks.
  • Identity Access Manager: identification process control, control of access rights on the basis of roles, sales opportunity of single authentication (single sign-on).
  • Audit Compliance Manager: audit and the analysis of all parameters of physical and virtual networks for the purpose of ensuring integrity of data.
  • Inventory Protection Manager: identification and correction of discrepancies and discrepancies in data of inventory.^[1]

2018: Announcement of services of Security Risk Index and Managed Security Service

On February 15, 2018 the Nokia company announced service of risks assessment of Security Risk Index and managed service of security Managed Security Service. The combination of these services allows to create complete approach to problem solving of security in mobile, IP- and the fixed networks during an era of digital transformation. In addition to the solution of own security concerns, operators can sell not branded managed services of security to corporate customers under the brand that will allow to receive other sources of income in quickly growing business market of security and also to accelerate entry into this market.

Toughening of regulatory requirements and continuous complication of the networks transferring the unprotected data from Internet of Things from personal devices, from social networks and business applications — here factors which force operators to pay the increasing attention to data security issues. Nokia offers complete approach to this question: analyzing operator risks in the most different areas and comparing their indicators to parameters of other similar companies, Nokia provides the exhaustive analysis of vulnerabilities and the offer on their elimination. In it the essence of service of risks assessment — Security Risk Index consists.

After assessment the managed service based on the software of NetGuard Nokia which completes this complete process comes into effect. Experts of Nokia project infrastructure of network security, information management and monitoring to provide reliable protection of crucial data assets against the known and unknown threats and also to guarantee observance by the operator of all existing standards and regulatory requirements.

Having protected own networks, operators can offer managed services of security or their elements to the corporate customers. Together with Nokia operators can easily develop a necessary service package of security, open for themselves other source of income and increase loyalty of customers.

Services of security of Nokia use NetGuard Nokia — a full-scale portfolio of complete software solutions which will recognize, prevent and reflect cyber attacks in traditional and cloud network architectures, protect end users and structures of Internet of Things.

Services of Managed Security Service and Security Risk Index Nokia create a fundamental basis for security of telecommunications. They cover all areas of security, including assessment and protection of the diverse networks working in the multivendor environment where there are much more opportunities for the attacks much more risks.^[2]

2017: Анонс NetGuard Security Management Center

In November, 2017 Nokia announced the software solution NetGuard Security Management Center which helps operators with an anticipatory order to distinguish, predict and reflect threats of infection with viruses racketeers and other malicious program codes.

Volumes, speed and a variety of data in security systems are so big that specialists cannot process them. Every year the companies receive hundreds of thousands of warnings from security systems, and on 70% of these warnings no investigations are made. Besides, installation creates sets of point solutions for security in networks of customers very difficult, difficult managed environment which becomes even more difficult in process of development and distribution of Internet of Things.

NetGuard Security Management Center Nokia is the complete solution for security management, analytics and reaction. It allows the operator to trace, configure and control all security systems installed in his networks from different suppliers.

The solution includes the analytic functions and functions of automation turning security management from process of manual reaction into a dynamic, anticipatory automatic process. This solution creates a basis for implementation of modern methods of machine learning and artificial intelligence which surely will appear in future versions.

The version of NetGuard Security Management Center Nokia with a new dashboard (dashboard) and the automatic mechanism of process management of security gives the chance to operators to investigate 100% of alarms at cost reduction for 50%, to liquidate up to 70% of false operations, to lower investigation terms more than by 50% and to reflect threats before the hacker cracks a security system and will cause to the operator extensive damage.

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