SNC’s Advisor reviews a device’s configuration and calculates its security score. It reviews a set of features supported by the platform that affect security and determines whether each feature is configured. The Advisor provides a description of each feature, technical advice and recommendations on how to configure it to reduce security risks. The explanations include examples of platform-specific commands to assist in securing the network device. The Advisor can analyze devices already deployed on the network or it can analyze a text-based CLI configuration file. It calculates a security score for each device, based on a weighted algorithm, to provide a measure of how vulnerable the device is to security risks.

SNC’s Accountant evaluates security on a per port basis and provides real time information about what is happening on the port. The Accountant uses SNMP to determine what authentication methods are used on each active port and what authentication policies are in use. It gives the network administrator the ability to see who is connected to the network, what port the user is located on, and what authentication method was used. It also provides the network administrator with a quick glimpse of which front panel ports are active for network planning.
For ease of use, SNC can import a list of devices from a NetSight generated (.ngf) file or from a NetSight 2.0 Server database. For detailed reporting, SNC has the ability to output its results to a file in Excel, PDF, or HTML format. For web-based dashboards, SNC can be scheduled to run from the command line and produce HTML pages with the results of its scans.

Secure Networks Consultant has the ability to scan hundreds of devices in minutes, as compared to the days it would take if done manually.