Product Overview
Certes TrustNet Manager™ is a web-based management platform that simplifies security management while preserving network performance and functionality. It provides a browser based user interface for managing policies and devices and for distributing keys for group encryption deployments. TrustNet Manager offers simplified encryption management without requiring costly changes to your existing network infrastructure.
With Certes TrustNet Manager, users can:
• Manage network encryption from anywhere using a web-based interface
• Define and distribute security policies with drag-and-drop simplicity
• Separate security management from network management
• Review and audit system events to simplify regulatory compliance
• Automatically validate changes before deployment
Policy Management
Certes TrustNet Manager acts as the central point of control for security personnel to define policies for what traffic to protect and how to protect it. Policies identify which network traffic to encrypt (based on any combination of VLAN ID, IP address, port information, or protocol ID) and specify what to do with it (encrypt, send in the clear or drop).
Encryption Key Management
Certes TrustNet Manager reliably distributes the group encryption policies and keys to Certes Enforcement Points (CEPs) throughout the network and it periodically sends key updates (rekeys). Key updates minimize the risk of a brute-force attack on the encrypted data by reducing the amount of information encrypted with the same key. With TrustNet Manager’s fail-safe rekey feature, group keys are updated only when all of the group members are ready to receive the new key. This avoids network outages that occur when some group members receive a new key while other group members continue to use the old key.
Certes TrustNet Manager helps you avoid costly misconfigurations and network outages by checking policies for mistakes and misconfigurations before new policies are deployed. It also deploys policy changes only to enforcement points that require changes.
Security Management
Using role-based access control, Certes TrustNet Manager provides separate roles for security control and network management. This allows the security team to outsource network management without losing control of the security policies and keys. TrustNet Manager provides powerful logging and auditing capabilities to establish, maintain and prove regulatory compliance. TrustNet Manager also provides user-specific customizable dashboards and a dashboard to show device status as shown below.
