Trust and Compliance Overview

As enterprises and service providers scale up their network infrastructure to meet the increasing connectivity needs of subscribers, their networks become increasingly complex because of the number of devices that connect to the network. Service providers must meet the connectivity and bandwidth requirements of mobile, IoT, and other devices that connect daily, while keeping the network secure. Possibilities of threats that can lead to a network outage from devices that connect to the network highlight the need to proactively address device and network security concerns. Service providers need to ensure that connectivity is uninterrupted without impacting security.

Paragon Automation helps protect the devices and the network as a whole by taking the principle of zero trust networking (ZTN) to the next level. Zero trust security considers all devices, whether within or outside the network, as untrusted. Paragon Automation extends this concept by periodically evaluating the device's configuration, integrity, and performance against standards applied on the network and recommends corrective measures to keep the network secure.

Paragon Automation assigns a trust score to each target. The term target refers to a device or a device component. This trust score is generated based on the integrity of the software and hardware components, vulnerabilities defined in SIRT advisories, and compliance with rules defined in the benchmarks document applied to the network. A benchmarks document contains recommendations and baseline configurations for securely configuring software, devices, and network infrastructure. Depending on changes in the network, Paragon Automation continually updates the trust score.

In addition to the trust score assigned to devices, Paragon Automation also alerts you when a device doesn't comply with the rules in the benchmarks document; for example, when a device or the OS running on a device reaches its EOL. You can view this information on the Alerts page as well as on the individual device's page.

Paragon Automation also provides a dashboard (Observability > Health > Health Dashboard > Trust) that enables you to view the overall trust score and monitor, in real-time, vulnerabilities that affect targets in the network. You can view a graph of the average trust score, the trust plan applied, and details of unhealthy devices through a single pane of glass GUI. The Trust Dashboard is a Beta feature in this release.