porttracker has been designed to replace complex and unreliable manual procedures by tracking where devices connect to your network. porttracker reports automatically collating and displaying information to provide a comprehensive insight into network connectivity, thus enabling network managers to make informed business decisions on port wastage, troubleshooting and security thus reducing operational overheads and port wastage whilst enhancing network security.
In a recent survey* that questioned over a hundred IT and Network Managers working in companies with more than a thousand employees, 26% said their largest area of expenditure is on general troubleshooting, 24% said it was security and 19% said it was buying new hardware.
porttracker has 3 main business benefits as illustrated below:
porttracker will show you where you have spare capacity by keeping track of last used times as well as highlighting ports that have never been used
Reduce downtime; just being able to see ‘what-is-connected-where’ makes troubleshooting problems, planning change, assessing risk more accurate and less time consuming
Systems are quick to identify where a threat exists logically but slower at pinpointing where the rogue device actually connects to your network. Additionally, identifying ‘at-risk’ ports can play a major part in establishing and maintaining network security, making sure that access to your building does not mean access to your network.
* Survey undertaken in March 2008 by porttracker. The survey questioned over a hundred IT and Network Managers working in companies with more than a thousand employees.