What is ‘conditional alerting’ and how does it enhance the value of a managed firewall service?
There are two distinct, separate uses of conditional alerting: · First, you can monitor if an event or best practice did NOT happen in an anticipated time period such as back-up processes or the re-keying of VPNs. This extremely precise monitoring assures you’re notified of “silent failures” and allows you to take the necessary steps to proactively maintain continuous operations. · Second, you can set notifications so that you are alerted ONLY if you see the same event occur more than x times in a set time period. This is especially useful with security and firewall management. As an example, you may not be able to characterize an event as a Denial of Service attack until you confirm the same event has occurred 20 times in one minute. UpTym Networks’ conditional alerting eliminates significant portions of the noise frequently associated with security logs, only alerting you to meaningful events defined by the frequency of occurrence. You’re also able to assure that operations staff and
