What You Believe About Your Network
About The Report
Every network runs on a set of beliefs. The standards are being followed. The redundancy is real. The asset database is roughly right.
Some of those beliefs are wrong. That's true in well-engineered, heavily automated networks as much as anywhere else. The question is which ones, and what it costs to find out the hard way.
This paper, written by Dinesh G Dutt, describes four situations from production networks:
A director of network operations who had to file a ticket to get answers
An outage where nobody checked the scope, and the fix caused a worse one
An OS upgrade that brought down all conference rooms on a floor
A single point of failure that nobody was looking for
SuzieQ builds a vendor-agnostic, timestamped database of your network: what it looks like now, what it looked like last Tuesday, and what it looked like six months ago. Answers come back in seconds instead of being assembled over days. It runs on your own infrastructure, airgapped from the Internet, and needs only a read-only account on each device.
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