Missing: Out of Band Management Industry. Reward!

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Reward offered for missing out of band management industry!

Why should you turn to CDI’s Out of Band Management Tools as a network engineer?

If this is your goal, find out how we can help.

Your main responsibility is the network.

You want it to run seamlessly, with products that can ensure 99.9% quality uptime. It’s important to you to have the support you need, when you need it. And as the network problem solver, you want products that can give you the remote maintenance and power control you need – no matter what type of issue you might be facing.

Learn how CDI’s Out of Band Management tools can help you attain these goals.

Out of Band Management Tools for Corporate Decision-Makers

As a corporate decision-maker, you are the one who is liable when something goes wrong with your network.

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It needs to be completely secure at all times – while simultaneously maintaining 99% quality uptime, no matter what form of outage – configuration loss, network outages, power problems, hurricanes, storms, even wear and tear to the devices themselves – you might be experiencing.

Learn how CDI’s Out of Band Management tools can help you attain these goals. http://www.commdevices.com/solutions/for-ceos-cfos-cios.html

What’s wrong with SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol)?

Because it is easy to use and inexpensive,  SNMP (the Simple Network Management Protocol) network management is the industry choice for managing wide area and local area networks. But this form of In Band Management via the network has one serious disadvantage.

SNMP management information travels the same network path as your data, using the same WAN and LAN routers, hubs, and communications links. This means that if your network is the issue, communication via SNMP will be subject to the same problems your network is experiencing. Compounding that, any secure information you may be loading into your remote device (like passwords, keys, or ID’s) are exposed to interception and cannot be considered absolutely secure. When the network goes down or is severely disrupted, SNMP traffic cannot act as a bridge between the affected device and the management workstation. Any time the network connection is down, all forms of In-Band Management are useless…
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Why RADIUS and TACACS+ both fail to protect remote technician dial up access to the router/server

What are the eight options that a technician can deploy when a network problem occurs in a remote location – and why are some of the most common not optimal solutions? We wrote a  white paper describing all eight that explains why the only totally secure and manageable remote access solution is to install strong authentication modems with a built-in, centrally managed database.

Read our whitepaper to learn more.

Dancing With The FIPS (140-2)

How can you tell if a product is really FIPS certified? There’s only one way (you actually have to be certified…with a certificate) but many manufacturers seem to dance around the truth about their encrypted products.

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Secure Out Of Band Management – The Official CDI Presentation

Our highly specialized secure-access products serve network management by providing the most secure out-of-band access available in the market today. Check our presentation to learn more about our products – and our company.

Want to learn more about us? Visit our site and chat with us online, or call us +1 973-334-1980.

Encryption Algorithms Decrypted

We’ve posted another whitepaper to Scribd for your reading enjoyment…This paper is an attempt to simplify and explain the current state of today’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) approved encryption algorithms.

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Urban Legends of Secure Out of Band Management

There are many products in the market today being touted as having Secure Out of Band management capabilities. In many cases, these products are just standard network devices masquerading as something else. In some of the worst cases, they completely mislead prospective buyers about their capabilities. Read our white paper, which outlines the various urban legends, misleading buzzwords, and erroneous certifications that can deceive you when it comes to remote network buying decisions.

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