Premier Services Program (PSP) Tools: Security Overview Software Version 3.0 Extreme Networks, Inc. 3585 Monroe Street Santa Clara, California 95051 (888) 257-3000 (408) 579-2800 http://www.extremenetworks.com Published: May 2008 Part Number: 120350-00 Rev.
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Contents Chapter 1: PSP Security Overview .................................................................................................... 5 PSP Software Appliance and Communications Strategy...................................................................6 Web Interface Security ................................................................................................................7 PSP Analytics Application Security ............................................................................
Premier Services Program (PSP) Tools: Security Overview
1 PSP Security Overview Extreme Networks – through its Premier Services Program (PSP) – provides an on-demand, hosted solution for network monitoring and analysis of IT infrastructure, including network traffic, routers, switches, storage devices, servers and applications. The PSP software securely collects and transports data from a customer's network devices to the PSP Data Center where it is analyzed and stored.
PSP Security Overview PSP Software Appliance and Communications Strategy PSP Software Appliance Hardening the software appliance. The software appliance runs as a service on a Windows server 2000/2003 or XP platform. The appliance software delivered by Extreme Networks contains all the components/services it needs; all non-critical Windows services, aside from basic networking, may be disabled to reduce the attack surface of the appliance server.
Web Interface Security Web Interface Security Users log in to the PSP tools through a secure web interface. The user has the option to encrypt the data transfer as well for the PSP connection session. The connection between the browser and the web server is secured through industry-standard procedures and protocols, as follows: 1024-bit authentication and SSL or TLS. The level of communications encryption is negotiated with the client browser and supports up to 256-bit encryption. User ID and password.
PSP Security Overview ● 8 Redundant power. Uninterruptible power supply (UPS) batteries and diesel-powered generators ensure against power failure.
