Central Organization Management Overview
Zenconsole offers Central Organization Management functionality for collecting and administering distributed Zenarmor instances, enabling a unified business perspective throughout your network for SSE and higher subscriptions. Central Organization Management is organization-wide management, implementation, and monitoring of Zenarmor security controls and related processes. It provides a single point of access to all Zenarmor instances, which might be deployed on hundreds of endpoint devices and tens of routing platforms in your company network, consolidating them under a single umbrella.
For numerous organizations, central administration is essential due to its ability to consolidate all visibility, documentation, and compliance concerns, thereby alleviating the burden on firewalls. Miscommunications and costly, unproductive redundancies can be prevented through central management.
With Zenconsole Central Organization Management, not only do you get comprehensive cybersecurity protection, but also this feature optimizes management, improves network traffic analysis, and refines decision-making, assuring the maximization of resources. Administrators can allocate less effort to repetitive activities and more time to discovering creative solutions.
A centralized reporting capability that consolidates information from a variety of sources into a singular, standardized management and analysis framework is another important benefit of Zenconsole Central Organization Management. All network traffic packets and threats traversing Zenarmor instances inside your corporate network can be centrally monitored.
Benefits of Centralized Organization Management
The primary benefits of Zenconsole Central Organization Management are outlined below.
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Reporting: The activity on your network offers insights into system performance relative to expectations and facilitates root cause analysis. Zenconsole's centralized management feature enables the maintenance of reports that monitor anomalies and events. This information can be used to diagnose issues and identify cyber threats to improve the safety and efficacy of your network.
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Visibility: Centralized reporting enables administrators to view what is happening in their corporate networks, make informed decisions, and adapt them in response to evolving circumstances. Everyone involved in the development, infrastructure construction, maintenance, and security processes of an organization requires visibility in order to perform their duties. By employing a centrally managed architecture, it is feasible to provide all stakeholders with a uniform view of the impacts of their work on the various nodes.
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Unified Management Console: Utilizing a single management console, it is simpler for a single administrator or a small team to monitor the progress of mitigation efforts, events, and alerts within a single window. Additionally, the likelihood of an individual entering a setting within a distinct console that could inadvertently complicate matters for others is reduced by maintaining a single security console.
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Speed: Network traffic analysis is a time-consuming procedure, particularly for distributed large enterprise networks. This latency is essential in the cybersecurity sector, as it is necessary to make rapid decisions in order to detect and prevent intruders. With Zenconsole's centralized reporting system, data collection is automated, enabling teams to allocate more time to analyzing results and less time to collect data manually. This approach facilitates quicker decision-making.
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Easy Management: With the help of central organization management features, the same security policies might be employed to protect various types of networks within your corporation. This simplifies the process for an individual or team to oversee security throughout the entire organization.
The central organization management system can integrate all your Zenarmor instances into a single cloud. This requires considerably less time and effort to manage compared to switching between many consoles and attempting to recall various settings, configurations, and deployment specifics.
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Consolidated Safeguarding: Centralized administration finally offers cohesive protection, guaranteeing that your entire IT infrastructure is sufficiently safeguarded against attacks. Furthermore, the protection of specific components of your network is unambiguous due to the fact that they are all monitored by the same system.
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Compliance: Zenconsole's organization management feature can significantly simplify the process of adhering to compliance standards. A single set of security policies can be implemented to encompass all components of the IT system that are subject to a particular set of compliance standards. This not only simplifies compliance management but also expedites and simplifies the auditing process.
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Scalability: As your enterprise grows, you can add as many Zenarmor instances as your license allows.
Getting Started with Zenconsole Organizations
To get the benefits of the central organization management feature, you may follow the next main steps:
- Create an organization on Zenconsole.
- Configure identity and access management (IAM) method for your organization.
- Create organization users, either adding them manually or importing them from your Google Workspace.
- Install Zenarmor on your firewall and L3 routing platforms, such as OPNsense or pfSense, and register them as gateways to the newly created Zenconsole organization.
- Install Zenarmor on your end-user devices, such as MS Windows, macOS and Linux desktops/laptops, and register them as endpoints to the newly created Zenconsole organization.
- Define organization-wide central Internet access policies via Zenconsole depending on your needs.
- Create private secure networks within your organization (SASE Editions only).
- Define private network policies depending on your requirements (SASE Editions only).
Video
Here is the hands on video for Zenarmor Central Organization Management feature.