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XIT Networks has developed and is operating the most flexible and effective Cyber Operations Environment designed to provide centralized management and control of our integrated communication and cyber defense capabilities. This includes real-time coordinating of computer and network attacks across our customers’ communication, networks, and computer assets as well as the capability to provide centralized management of Internet Protocol cryptographic devices. Our Operational capabilities provide a range of highly specialized services, including traffic and device profiling, performance monitoring and tuning, incident detection, response and recovery. We maintain a knowledge management suite that allows our operations team to maintain a dynamic library of occurred events, actions, and outcomes to increase responsiveness and decrease impacts for recurring items.

This one central control center controls all elements of the networks whether on the transport communication segments or part of the site specific network segments (IT or communications segments). The level of control and services is based on SLA. The SLA are a metric of performance and response. The XIT operational philosophy is designed to take a “holistic” view of possible problems and allows incidents to be treated across the system as a whole rather than individual “teams” with their own under-coordinated tools.

To deliver this level of protection, the CDSC performs a host of different roles:

• Assignment of security experts to analyze and help solve security incidents
  
  
• In real time, manage and monitor
  
  • virtual private networks,
    
  • firewalls,
    
  • intrusion detection and prevention systems,
    
  • DDoS mitigation systems,
    
  • anti-x solutions,
    
  • patch updates,
    
  • endpoints assets including servers, and other security products
    
    
• Analyze security log data, vulnerability information, asset information, and alerts
  
  
• Immediately respond to potential security threats and quickly resolve security problems
  
  
• Offer real-time views of our customers' security postures
  
  
• Defend customers against emerging network attacks
  
  
• Scanning of networks both internal and external to help ensure that your security provisions comply with policies and service-level agreements (SLAs)
  
  
• Monitoring your network for alarms and controlling and testing network elements
  
  
• Remotely provisioning, configuring, and backing up files for service restoration
  
  
• Upgrading security devices with tested software that contains vulnerability fixes, maintenance updates, or new features
  
  
• Collecting usage data for billing
  
  
• Helping generate regulatory-compliance reports for auditors by using an extensive data-collection repository
  

XIT Network operations are designed to take a "holistic view" of possible problem areas. This holistic view allows incidents to be treated across the system as a whole rather than by "individual teams" with their own often-uncoordinated tools. The networking, security, compliance, client, and application teams use the same knowledge repository to meet their information and intelligence needs. The knowledge repository can be data mined by the teams to meet their more specific needs and business requirements.