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Cisco Proactive Automation of Change Execution

Introduction

Accelerate Growth While Meeting Compliance Standards

Compliance regulations often require IT organizations to securely automate and control network changes and configurations. The Cisco Proactive Automation of Change Execution (PACE) solution combines products and services designed to help your enterprise:

  • Meet compliance requirements
  • Accelerate growth
  • Ensure business continuity
  • Increase user productivity

Industry regulations require that you adhere to corporate policies that control access to customer and corporate financial data. Enterprise networks must adapt to market changes quickly, while simultaneously remaining in compliance, in control, and prepared for audit. The Cisco PACE solution is optimized to help medium-sized to large enterprises address the challenges of compliance, growth, network complexity, and in-house expertise.

Compliance: Adapt quickly to changing regulations such as:

  • Sarbanes Oxley (SOX)
  • Control Objectives for Information and Related Technology (COBIT)
  • IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
  • Gramm-Leach-Bliley Financial Modernization Act (GLBA)
  • Visa Cardholder Information Security Program (Visa CISP)
  • Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standards
  • Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
  • Committee of Sponsoring Organizations (COSO) of the Treadway Commission
  • Custom regulations

Growth: Meet increased demand for new services, applications, and network bandwidth.

Complexity: Avoid human error while configuring complex global networks managed by multiple administrators.

Expertise: Minimize the need for specialized skills to validate network consistencies between devices.

Security of Changes: Authenticate, authorize, and audit valid administrators while preventing conflicting changes.

Overview of the PACE Solution

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Products and Services in the PACE Solution

Cisco PACE Portal and Components
Cisco PACE Portal provides a central dashboard across PACE products, while Cisco PACE Components include tools and integration points between PACE products that enhance the value of the PACE solution.


CiscoWorks LAN Management Solution
Learn about network discovery, mapping, monitoring, diagnosis, and Cisco IOS Software device deployment for the PACE solution.


CiscoWorks Network Compliance Manager
This highly scalable and available compliance, change, and configuration manager helps to enable scheduled and automated network changes.


EMC Voyence Control (offered through Cisco SolutionsPlus)
This market-leading product provides a multivendor, scalable approach for managing configuration and compliance for network devices and automates many of the time-consuming tasks needed to meet regulatory requirements.


CiscoWorks Quality of Service (QoS) Policy Manager
QoS provisioning and monitoring capabilities help you manage, tune, and optimize the performance characteristics of your Cisco network.


Cisco PACE Advanced Services
Customer-specific services including business consulting, technical consulting, and deployment services.

Cisco PACE Resources

Cisco PACE helps facilitate network compliance and innovative configurations.

At-A-Glance

Solution Overview

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