Networking — especially the Internet — is now integral to people’s daily lives, and its technology and scale continue to grow. At the same time, people are demanding better quality of service (QoS). Therefore, network performance monitoring, network management, and network security have become crucial aspects of network technology research and application, and network data visualization is gaining an increasingly critical role in this process.

First, in order to realize performance monitoring, management staff should promptly conduct analyses of data traffic, link utilization, packet loss, packet latency and other network performance parameters. Network performance visualization is important to staff performing these analyses. It is also important in network monitoring, for IT managers to prevent staff from browsing and publishing irrelevant or illegal information—such as terrorist communications—or disclosing confidential information. Additionally, network performance visualization is necessary to deter high risk behaviors and breaches of network security such as port scanning, propagation of worms and viruses, and other security threats. Finally, network visualization technology also allows businesses to analyze abnormal traffic, the scope of impact of such traffic, and ongoing suspicious traffic trends.

SANGFOR IAM products use “external data centers” for extensive logging storage. Powerful data centers allow managers to submit queries based on groups, users, rules, protocols, and more, and see the results in pie charts, histograms, curve graphs, and other visualization aids. Managers can intuitively view network traffic, email, network monitoring, security logs, and other detailed information, and can directly print and export reports. SANGFOR’s IAM products have powerful logging systems and rich reporting functions, and can analyze organizations’ Internet usage in detail, providing extremely effective data support for network administrators and decision-makers.