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| In today’s complex IT infrastructures, networking and security devices have become critical elements in allowing the continuity of business in both B2B and B2C.
These elements enable today’s organization to help provide both security and availability of mission critical applications. These devices hold complex configuration that recovering them from a failure might take a long period of time and will cause the organization loss of business.
Unlike most Information Systems within the organization, these products are not properly configured for backup of device setting and configurations. Mostly, organization use a manual operation to backup this type of information and do so in scattered locations and not on a regular basis.
Failure of a single device that does not have both a proper disaster recovery plan and the latest configuration almost always results in downtime for mission critical operations.
The BackBox Solution
BackBox enables security and network administrators to schedule and monitor element configuration backups and alerts if such backups are not recent.
An intuitive dashboard allows a single view of all networking and security applications and devices and highlights devices that were not recently saved.
A unique multi-check engine, not only verifies that a backup has been performed but also makes sure that the saved configuration meets the criteria needed to make sure that it can be used for restoration of the device or application.
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| Feature |
Today |
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| Routers |
Rarely saved |
Automatic scheduled backup |
| Switches |
Rarely saved |
Automatic scheduled backup |
| Firewalls |
Manual backups, No central location or Verification
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Fully scheduled, automated and verified backups |
| Load Balancers |
No backups |
Fully scheduled, automated and verified backups |
| Content Filters |
No backups |
Fully scheduled, automated and verified backups |
| Custom Devices |
Vendor based |
Fully scheduled, automated and verified backups |
| Central Dashboard for Backup status |
Not Available |
Real-Time Dashboard with device status |
| Notifications |
Limited
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e-Mail Reports and Syslog |
| Reports |
None |
Scheduled reports summarizing network
and security device backup status |
| Off Site storage |
Manual |
Automatic support for TFTP, SCP and FTP |
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Syslog based solutions |
Open Source |
| Built-in Multi Vendor Support |
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| Dashboard interface for quick visibility of device status |
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| Multi-Method Backup verification |
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| Device Grouping and Filtering for Large Organizations |
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| Full support for new devices types |
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Yes No Partial * Not built-in, requires user customization ** Slow response for new device types |
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