"Insightix's technology truly reveals a significant group of devices and software that other discovery and mapping products miss, and monitors them - and now it keeps track of intermittently connected assets. If unreliable inventories and asset databases are troublesome (and externally required compliance reporting could be a source of this kind of trouble) then there is a solid business case for IT managers to consider the product."
The 451 Group
 

Network Discovery - The Logical IT Starting Point for Regulation Process Compliance
The passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act in 2002 created a complex set of new accounting processes and financial reporting regulations. The impact of these new procedures and regulations on IT management has been rather vague and open to a wide range of interpretations. As time passed, certain best practices guidelines and IT governance frameworks, in particular COBIT (Control Objectives for Information and related Technology), emerged to clarify the IT requirements of SOX and facilitate compliance.

In parallel to SOX, other government regulations impacting IT management have been legislated and are being enforced in various capacities. These include Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, USA Patriot Act and more.

The logical starting point for an IT executive to plan and implement compliance or best practice procedures is simply understanding what are the devices that are on the IT network. Regardless of the risk assessment or control procedure a company needs to implement to achieve regulation compliance, an IT executive must first have the visibility to see across an entire IT infrastructure and the ability access a comprehensive inventory of all IT assets connected to the network. This baseline network information is a prerequisite for any compliance initiative.

Comprehensive Network Visibility for Regulation Compliance
Insightix delivers IT executives the complete, accurate and real-time network information needed to begin planning for compliance initiatives. Regardless of the size and complexity of the network, Insightix obtains comprehensive IT asset inventory in real-time. Insightix classifies each element and provides a complete list of associated properties, including its MAC address, IP address, operating system, running network services and installed patches.

Unlike traditional discover tools, Insightix delivers baseline network information that can serve as the basis for compliance planning. Traditional discovery tools provide only one-time snapshots of network elements connected to the network at the time of scan and cannot identify firewalled and virtualized devices. As a result, the information gathered by traditional discover tools is incomplete and insufficient for compliance planning.

Insightix reaches all levels of an IT network with a unique combination of active and passive network discovery methods to build, monitor and track an entire inventory of IT assets in real-time. The comprehensive network information generated by Insightix positions an IT executive to effectively plan any risk assessment, internal control procedure, real-time disclosure or any other IT initiative to cover the entire organization and produce results that contribute to achieving compliance.