Monitoring Devices Help Protect Princeton Computer Science Facilities Against Intrusion

Published by Asentria Corporation on Aug 30, 2007

More than ever before, IT managers need to secure equipment and facilities against a variety of intrusive conditions that could cripple critical operations, resulting in system malfunctions, loss of data or intellectual property, damage to mission critical hardware or even theft of valuable physical assets. Such conditions often include environmental events, failure of air conditioning systems, power outages, and untoward human actions.

The proliferation of increasingly strategic and sensitive networked equipment at remotely managed sites, including those where managers or supervisory personnel are occasionally offsite, has intensified the need to assure protection against such seen and unseen “intruders.” One of the solutions to covering this exposure is to provide comprehensive remote monitoring and protection using a network peripheral device that can provide the right combination of monitoring and management capabilities; a device that can integrate multiple existing inputs into an SNMP “trap” alarm system that delivers immediate notification via the network’s native protocol.