SOCFortress Integrations — Network Discovery and Inventory Using NetDisco

3 min readApr 17, 2023

Intro

Organizations are challenged by identifying assets across the enterprise and keeping track of their status and configurations.

Hardware and software — All Network Devices

Tracking a diverse set of hardware and software for all your network devices. Keep an up to date inventory of all the end nodes connected to your network, wired and wireless.

Lack of IT assets control

From SMBs to large and complex organizations, different subsidiaries, branches, third-party partners, contractors, temporary workers, and guests can access and consume IT services.

IT Asset Management and CyberSec

From a cyber security perspective, deploying, implementing and maintaining a proper IT asset management system provides the following advantages:

enables faster responses to security alerts by revealing the location, configuration, and owner of a device.
increases cybersecurity resilience: you can focus attention on the most valuable assets.
provides detailed system information to auditors.
determines how many software licenses are actually used in relation to how many have been paid for.
reduces help desk response times: staff will know what is installed and the latest pertinent errors and alerts.
reduces the attack surface of each device by ensuring that software is correctly patched.

IT Asset Management and NIST 800–53 Security Controls

About NetDisco

Non-intrusive, automatic SNMP polling to network devices from clients premises and centralized collection of network data, IP addressing and endpoints.

Wired and wireless networks.
Broad range of network vendors supported.
Automatic neighbors discovery using CDP/LLDP.
Full Network inventory, including hardware modules, locations, device model, OS/firmware, serial number, etc.
Full VLAN inventory.
Full IP addressing inventory, subnets allocation and IP-MAC associations.
Wireless SSIDs and connected endpoints.
Full endpoint inventory, including servers, workstations, laptops, IP Phones, printers, scanners, IoT, etc.
Endpoint connection details by port switch/wireless access point.

Integration in your visualization tool.

The data store where all the network inventory is recorded can be accessed from your existing visualization tool.

Leverage your single pane of glass and visualize reports on network devices by vendor, model, firmware version, location, etc.

Obtain information about your end nodes, their connection details, assigned IP addresses, etc.

Need Help?

The functionality discussed in this post, and so much more, are available via the SOCFortress platform. Let SOCFortress help you and your team keep your infrastructure secure.

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