Auvik – Providing network management and monitoring services astonishing speed

Cloud-managed, or cloud-based networking provides the visibility, management, and scale needed to operate today’s distributed cloud and on-premises network, security, and location infrastructure, as well as user-specific services. Modern cloud infrastructure provides a new level of agility that is difficult to accomplish with a traditional on-premises model. For many organizations, it makes more sense to take advantage of virtual services and infrastructure rather than buying and maintaining physical management appliances. The popularity of cloud computing opened doors that weren’t possible with siloed, on-prem infrastructure and software. It’s easier to gather data from a larger number of sources, support a wider audience without adding physical resources, and create a vast data lake that provides for more granular and meaningful analytics. The same is true for cloud-managed networking.

Your days of wire tracing, port mapping, and reverse engineering network connections based on VLAN or IP assignments are over. Auvik automates network discovery to give you complete network visibility and control—and it keeps all of your information up to date as the network evolves, so you don’t have to worry about it. Reduce IT headaches and save time with a proven solution for automated network discovery, documentation, and performance monitoring. Choose Auvik because you'll see value in minutes, and stay with us to improve your IT for years to come.

Leveraging Robust Computer Networking Services

Asset Management: Auvik pulls data from sources like CDP, LLDP, and forwarding tables to meticulously model the Layer 1 network diagram. Layers 2 and 3 are built from ARP tables, IP assignments, and VLAN associations to show you exactly what’s on the network, where it is, and how it’s connected. Auvik’s automated inventory uses network protocols to detect and capture full details for every device on the network including make and model, serial number, IP address, and the physical switchport the device is connected to. If you know which device you’re looking for but don’t know where it’s located, you can easily find the device and every other device it’s connected to. Auvik pulls lifecycle data from supported devices to show you whether they’re on current or expired support contracts, whether there are more up-to-date software versions available, if devices are eligible to receive critical security updates, and if devices are still available for purchase.

Network Traffic Analysis: TrafficInsights leverages machine learning and traffic classification to show you which applications—like Dropbox, Netflix, or Slack—or protocols are using up the bulk of the network’s bandwidth so you can confidently make the case for a network upgrade or expansion. When investigating a network traffic spike retroactively or in real-time, you can immediately identify who’s behind the bandwidth hogging using easy-to-read charts showing top source addresses, destination addresses, conversations, and ports. TrafficInsights displays real-time traffic source and destination data in a simple world map. If you identify traffic is being received from or delivered to an unauthorized or unexpected country, you can dig deeper to verify if the traffic is legitimate or malicious, and take necessary steps to protect the network.

Network Configuration Backup: Auvik scans network devices for configuration changes every 60 minutes. If the running configuration has been altered, the latest configuration is automatically backed up. The old configuration gets logged into a version index that’s always available for review. Select any configuration in your device’s version history and immediately see which configuration elements have been added, edited, or removed with an easy color-coded system. When a network device dies or fat fingers make a mistake changing a device configuration, you won’t have to figure out what went wrong while your users fume without service. Simply hit Auvik’s configuration restore button to instantly bring things back to the way they were. Alternatively, export the configuration and apply it to a new device.

Auvik Security

Auvik’s cloud-based software is purpose-built for the cloud following industry best practices of secure data collection and storage. Auvik servers use an industry standard four-tier architecture, with security protocols at every layer. This architecture includes:

Data Isolation: When the Auvik collector is installed on a network, it’s uniquely configured to be associated with only one account. As data from the collector reaches the Auvik system, it’s partitioned in such a way that it cannot cross from one account to another.

Encryption: Auvik leverages AES-256 encryption for data at rest, and all communications between the Auvik collector and the cloud require a minimum of TLS v1.2 encryption.

Access Control: Systems holding customer data can only be accessed by authorized personnel through controlled mechanisms.

Auvik’s agent, known as the collector, is a piece of code that uses industry standard protocols to gather information about a network, such as topology details, configurations, and network statistics. The collector summarizes and sends that information to the Auvik servers over encrypted connections. All collector connections to the cloud are outbound, and encrypted (minimum of TLS v1.2) using certificate authentication to ensure communication is always and only between the collector and Auvik servers.

Douglas Murray | Chief Executive Officer

Douglas Murray is the Chief Executive Officer of Auvik where he drives company strategy, culture, and growth. Murray has over 25 years of network and security industry experience, including two years as the CEO of cloud cyber security company Valtix, as well as seven years as CEO of SDN pioneer Big Switch Networks (acquired by Arista Networks). He previously held leadership positions at Juniper Networks, Sun Microsystems and AT&T, and was a finalist for the EY Entrepreneur of the Year Northern California in 2017.

Douglas holds a BA in History from Colgate University and an MBA from Johns Hopkins University.

"Auvik is easy-to-use cloud-based networking management and monitoring software—without the hassle."