BlueCat Networks IPAM, DNS and DHCP for the Public Sector
Overview
Introduction
US Federal Government including State and Local Governments throughout the US continue to invest in mission critical infrastructures in an effort to support vital elements of their citizens’ lives, ensure prosperity, and positively affect the long term well-being of the nation. These public sector organizations are exploring new and innovative approaches to aligning technology investment with real, tangible, and measurable value for their citizens as well as the departments, agencies, and public sector organizations that support them. This evolution in thinking is challenged by the demands and often competing priorities placed on government by its stakeholders, including elected officials, members of the bureaucracy, citizens, businesses, and other public sector entities.
To balance these priorities and achieve their mission, government entities look to technology to provide real and lasting change and innovation. Like their counterparts in the enterprise domain, public sector organizations are realizing that innovation is not only a driver for efficiency and effectiveness, but also an operational mandate to support an increasingly complex and challenging set of demands from their stakeholders. As the innovator in IPAM, DNS, and DHCP technologies, BlueCat Networks’ mission is to support the government’s growing mandate for technological innovation and consistently deliver the value that government organizations have grown to expect.
US Public Sector Summary
Regulatory requirements, together with the explosion in the use of IP addresses driven by the proliferation of IPv6, wireless, mobility, virtualization, and VoIP has created unprecedented demand for centralized IP address management (IPAM), DNS, and DHCP within the US Public Sector. BlueCat Networks’ family of IPAM, DNS, and DHCP appliances improve security, lower costs, increase efficiency—and specifically addresses the Office of Management Budget (OMB) mandate for deployment of DNSSEC.
OMB mandate M-08-23 requires every US federal organization to deploy DNSSEC. While the scale and impact of DNSSEC deployment varies depending on the size of the agency or departmental infrastructure, the complexity, cost, and risk associated with meeting this national security-driven mandate is an important consideration for every department and agency. BlueCat Networks makes it easy by ensuring:
- An innovative, secure appliance-based solution
- Minimal DNSSEC deployment costs & ongoing administration
- Elimination of catastrophic failure risk due to administrator error
- Minimal impact on existing DNS infrastructure
- Completed deployment in weeks rather than months
In addition to DNSSEC mandate, OMB has also issued Memorandum M-05-22, “Transition Planning for Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)”, establishing the goal of enabling all US Federal government agency network backbones to support the next generation of the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) by June 30, 2008.
All BlueCat Networks family of IPAM, DNS, and DHCP appliances are fully IPv6 capable including:
- Complete support for IPv4, IPv6 and “Dual Stack”
- End-to-End IPv6 Addressing Management – including management of routing prefixes for global Unicast, subnet ID’s and interface ID’s
- IPv6 DNS Management – not just AAAA support
- IPv6 Unicast – support for global unicast addressing and for unique local IPv6 unicast addressing
- IPv6 DHCP Management – stateless option support
- IPv6 DNS/DHCP Deployment to Network Servers
Industry Leading Integrated IPAM, DNS, and DHCP Solution
For most US public sector departments and agencies, manual DNSSEC implementation is complex, time-consuming, error-prone and not practical. BlueCat Networks provides a simple, turn-key appliance-based solution that is fully DNSSEC enabled. Deployment of BlueCat Networks technology allows departments and agencies to meet the full requirement of OMB mandate M-08-23 simply, safely and completely.
Centralized IP Address Management (IPAM) w/Distributed DNS/DHCP Services
With BlueCat Networks, US public sector clients have the opportunity to fully address mandatory DNSSEC deployment and IP address management in a single solution. For departments and agencies which need to simplify the management of names and address space, BlueCat Networks’ solution:
- Eliminates the use of spreadsheets and custom applications
- Provides centralized management
- Ensures delegation of authority and approval of changes (pre-production)
- Recovers available unused name and address space
- Reduces name and address management costs
- Eliminates configuration errors that can disrupt services and cause application downtime
Federal When it comes to OMB/DoD/DHS-USCert mandates and directives such as IPv6, DNSSEC, and DNS audit trail capabilities, we have the technology, products and highly trained personnel to help you achieve the required end state of these initiatives.
The company’s award-winning Proteus™ IPAM platforms and Adonis™ family of DNS / DHCP solutions are successfully meeting government agencies’ challenging and ever-increasing demands for rapidly evolving IP address management requirements within the enterprise.
Our Public Sector team of professionals is dedicated to servicing mission critical demands of our US Government clients, partners, and prospects for innovative, market leading IPAM, DNS, & DHCP solutions worldwide.
- IPv6 – Ready When you are
- DNSSEC - Secure DNS for Government
- Proteus IPAM Solution
- Adonis DNS / DHCP Solution
State and Local State and local governments in the United States are faced with the challenges of delivering cost-effective networking infrastructures to deliver the best and most dynamic services possible to its constituents. BlueCat Networks understands the increasing challenges of IP address management to support these dynamic services and to maintain state and local government critical infrastructures.
The company’s award-winning Proteus™ IPAM platforms and Adonis™ family of DNS / DHCP solutions are successfully meeting government agencies’ challenging and ever-increasing demands for rapidly evolving IP address management requirements within the enterprise.
Our Public Sector team of professionals is dedicated to servicing mission critical demands of our US Government clients, partners, and prospects for innovative, market leading IPAM, DNS, and DHCP solutions worldwide.
- IPv6 – Ready When you are
- DNSSEC - Secure DNS for Government
- Proteus IPAM Solution
- Adonis DNS / DHCP Solution
- Alabama State Finds Stability and Security in Adonis
State of Alabama
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Alabama State Finds Stability and Security in Adonis
Bordered by Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west, the state of Alabama is known as “The Heart of Dixie” and “The Yellowhammer State”. In 1819, Alabama was the twenty-second state admitted to the Union and is now the 30th largest state in the United States. The state of Alabama is also heavily invested in the aerospace, education, health care, banking, and various industries including automobile manufacturing and mineral extraction.
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DNSSEC
DNSSEC is here! Are you ready?
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Perhaps you’re a Government Agency that is mandated by the OMB to deliver DNSSEC?
Or maybe you want to get ahead of .com root zone signing?
DNSSEC is complex, costly and time consuming! You need a simple, secure and affordable DNSSEC Solution.
BlueCat Networks reduces the inherent complexity of DNSSEC with our Signing Policy Management system allowing you to configure DNSSEC key and rollover settings in one place using the latest protocol features including full support for NSEC3.
Challenge
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How BlueCat Provides the Solution
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- You want to adopt DNSSEC, but understand it to be very complex and difficult to configure using conventional command-line tools.
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- BlueCat simplifies DNSSEC administration using single-click Signing Policies and automated key rollover.
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- US Federal Agencies need to comply with the OMB mandate to ensure that the .gov zones are signed.
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- BlueCat’s DNSSEC solution fully supports the requirements of the mandate and the default settings related to DNSSEC are based on acknowledged best practices.
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- You need to control DNSSEC signed zones and parameters from a central location.
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- Whether you have 10 or 1000 DNSSEC signed zones, BlueCat allows you to manage everything from a central interface.
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- You need to be able to determine which zones are signed, which zones are not signed, and the settings used to sign zones.
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- BlueCat provides DNSSEC Signing reports to provide a comprehensive view of DNSSEC-related data.
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Request a free trial today! You can with download a Virtual DNS Applaince (for DNSSEC) now or we can ship you a physical DNS appliance that solves DNSSEC today!
To find out more, fill out the form on the page and we’ll get right back to you. IPv6 The complexity of the IPv6 transition requires 21st century tools that can add context to network data and turn it into useful business information. Proteus provides the tools administrators need to focus on the logic and business sense of their decisions, rather than the details. Organizations moving to IPv6 need Proteus IPAM.
The Challenge
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How BlueCat Solves The Problem
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- You need to be able to keep track of new IPv6 networks being added to the enterprise.
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- Proteus divides the IPv6 address space into blocks and networks allowing you to manage allocations of any classless inter-domain routing (CIDR) prefix length.
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- You need a system that can reduce the inherent complexity built into IPv6.
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- Proteus includes a number of tools to simplify the management of the IPv6 address space including a randomization engine to ensure that your IPv6 IDs are always created randomly.
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- You are beginning to transition from IPv4 to IPv6 and will continue to manage both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses for the foreseeable future. A system must provide the ability to manage and track the IPv4 and IPv6 address spaces concurrently in a "dual-stack" environment.
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- Proteus allows you to assign IPv4 and IPv6 addresses to devices and DNS resource records.
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- You need to support IPv6-related objects in the DNS namespace.
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- Proteus includes complete support IPv6-related DNS records including AAAA resource records and the IP6.ARPA reverse space.
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- You need to be able to be able to configure robust access control policies to determine who is allowed to access IPv6 objects.
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- Proteus offers a role-based administration system with a fine-grained level of access control over all objects in the IPAM database including IPv6 objects.
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- You are looking for a system with full auditing capabilities for all objects including IPv6 objects.
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- Proteus tracks change made to every object in the system including IPv6 objects.
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Contact
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