It is essential that IT managers know what each port in their network is being used for.  Yet even understanding that individual ports are being used at all is beyond most IT departments, who have to conduct time-consuming, inefficient and risky manual processes in order to make decisions that affect the entire organisation.

Instead, when called upon to isolate security breaches, investigate outages or to scope the network prior to expansions and upgrades, organisations have the opportunity to automate port intelligence.  This makes tasks far more cost-efficient, streamlined, responsive and less time consuming.

AUTOMATED IT RATING: 4.7

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