With data breaches making headlines almost daily it is critical to ensure adequate security for the data traversing your network. One area that can often be neglected is the protection of information collected and stored by your NPMD solution. Effective performance monitoring and troubleshooting of mission critical services can be accomplished while protecting sensitive customer and company intellectual property by using the latest encryption standards and adhering to the following three-point strategy:

• Protect data in motion
• Secure information when stored at rest
• Provide strong Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) capabilities