Government organizations face many of the same challenges found in the business world — containing costs, improving performance and serving customers. BlueCat Networks solutions help governments to provision highly scalable, reliable IP infrastructure to improve communications, secure data and manage the network in both IPv4 and IPv6 environments.
Looking to the volatile threat climate, Federal government organizations such as the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security and other military and civilian agencies face the daunting task of securing data access while balancing accessibility and availability under stringent, decreasing IT budgets. The threats to the network include Denial of Service Attacks, ICMP Attacks, Injection Attacks, Pharming Attacks, Cache Poisoning and other zero-day exploits that can halt mission critical government communications. Government agencies need the ability to command and control access to confidential networks and applications through the management of DNS, DHCP and Network Access Control.
U. S. defense, intelligence, and civilian agencies depend upon efficient, reliable, and secure IP communications to accomplish their government missions; IP Address Management, DNS and DHCP is at the heart of providing these services. Proteus IPAM and Adonis DNS/DHCP Appliance based-solutions exceed the security target requirements of the most stringent agencies.
Industry Challenges
Federal and local governments are expanding at an exponential rate and managing the IP’s securely is an increasing challenge.
In an effort to cut costs and increase security, Federal Governments are looking for ways to centralize and consolidate key IT functions
Government agencies are tasked with deploying IPv6 network services that interoperate with existing IPv4 infrastructure
Military organizations are in search of new ways to more effectively and securely manage IP communications with armed forced, employees and contractors over a variety of unified communications platforms.
Maintain core IP infrastructure that is highly available with built in disaster recovery
Cost reduction and consolidation remains a top priority.
Securing government networks against a diverse set of growing threats
The BlueCat Advantage
Move your IP network to a highly-scalable, reliable and resilient network architecture with BlueCat Networks award winning line of Adonis DNS/DHCP and Proteus IPAM appliances. BlueCat’s purpose-built appliance solutions are designed to provide maximum scalability and reliability without compromise to ease-of-use or security.
BlueCat’s IP infrastructure appliances are a logical extension of your network. BlueCat Networks solutions are designed to help financial services organizations improve customer responsiveness, decreases costs and improve competitive advantage. In fact, BlueCat Solutions typically offer a payback period of less than 3 ½ months with a return on investment of over 380%.
IPv6 Capable
The Adonis family of DNS and DHCP appliances are Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) compatible. IPv6 is the next-generation protocol designed to replace IPv4. IPv6 addresses many of the existing IPv4 limitations, provides a wide range of operational benefits, and offers superior support for advanced applications. IPv6 compatibility is a critical requirements for government and military organizations around the globe.
Decrease Costs
All BlueCat Networks solutions are designed to reduce the time required to manage complex network topologies. Whether your network is IPv4 or IPv6, wired or wireless, BlueCat solutions provide intuitive command and control for your IP networks. With smart features like configuration and deployment wizards, built in error checking and one-to-many deployment, BlueCat appliances will dramatically lower your total cost of ownership. In the first year of ownership, the Adonis™’s total cost is less than half of the total cost of competing solutions.
Security, Security, Security
Proteus and Adonis Appliances are all based on a firewall grade OS that is hardened and optimized to protect organizations against a variety of zero-day exploits. All IP Address Management, DNS and DHCP services run on purpose-built appliances that have all services running in jailed environments. BlueCat solutions provide advanced support for features like TSIG, BIND Views and work with LDAP/RADIUS/AD/Kerberos and RSA SecureID. No other appliance based solution offers this level of security without compromise to functionality or ease-of-use!
Network Redundancy
The U. S. government is striving to improve the resiliency of government networks, so that they can continue to operate under even the most catastrophic emergencies. Proteus and Adonis provide advanced support for high availability, clustering and disaster recovery configurations.
Defense in Depth
U. S. Federal agencies depend on their computer network infrastructure to perform critical functions, and successful attacks on government networks would have major consequences on the nation. To protect their network infrastructures, U. S. Federal agencies are following a strategy called Defense in Depth. All Adonis and Proteus infrastructure appliances promote the defense in depth strategy!
Improved Intra and Inter-Agency Communications
State and local governments can administer and deliver services more efficiently by improving intra — and inter-agency communications and services accessibility for citizens. This is done by guaranteeing the availability of mission critical IP provisioning using DNS and DHCP. Adonis is rapidly becoming the de facto standard for security conscious networks with the most stringent QoS and SLA policies.
