Multi-Cloud, Multi-Network Cyber Awareness, Monitoring and Management by Francois Caron and Pat Motola

© 2013 BlueSpace Federal Corp. and SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. All rights reserved.
Sentinel
SolarWinds® POC
Francois Caron
Product Management Director
512.682.9872
francois.caron@solarwinds.com
BlueSpace POC
Pat Motola
CEO
512.921-0559
pat.motola@bluespace.com
Multi-Cloud, Multi-Network Cyber
Awareness, Monitoring and Management

2© 2013 BlueSpace Federal Corp. and SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. All rights reserved.
Overview
• Completely isolating mission critical clouds
and networks is fundamental to maximize
cyber security.
• However, this isolation negatively impacts
the ability to monitor and manage the
cyber environment.
• SolarWinds and BlueSpace provide
compatible off the shelf products that
meet the requirements of US Intelligence
Community and Department of Defense
requirements for Multi-Cloud, Multi-
Network Cyber Awareness, IT Monitoring
and Management solutions.

SolarWinds: Who We Are - What We do
• Who we are
» More than 100,000 customers in 170 countries
» We sell to business of all sizes from SMB to Large Enterprise and Federal
» More than 425 of the Fortune 500 are customers
» 2012 revenue of over $290 million (+30% year-over-year growth)
» Named to “The Forbes® Fast Tech 25” in 2012 (Forbes magazine)
» More than one million users have downloaded our free tools
• Provide IT Management Software
◦ Focused on the end user in all the markets in which we compete
◦ Powerful. Easy to use. Affordable

SolarWinds Product Lines
Log & Event management
 Log and Event Manager
Network management
 Network Performance Monitor
 NetFlow Traffic Analyzer
 Network Configuration Manager
 IP Address Manager
 VoIP & Network Quality Manager
 Firewall Security Manager
 User Device Tracker
Application & Server management
 Server & Application Monitor
 Virtualization Manager
 Patch Manager
 Synthetic End User Monitor
Storage management
 Storage Manager
Remote management
 Mobile Admin®
 DameWare ®NT Utilities
 DameWare Mini Remote Control
IT help desk
 Web Help Desk™

SolarWinds EOC Capabilities
• SolarWinds Enterprise Operations Console (EOC)
• Provides a unified, consolidated, command center on a single
display to monitor SolarWinds Orion® instances* throughout the
enterprise.
• Scales to monitor over 600,000 network elements
• Focuses attention on mission-critical issues with global top 10 views
of bandwidth utilization, response time, CPU, memory, disk space
utilization and more
* EOC consolidates views from IPAM, NCM, NPM, NTA, SAM, UDT, VNQM

EOC Home
Orion Instances from
multiple domains

EOC Network
multiple domains

EOC Applications & Server
multiple domains

Case Study

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BlueSpace Federal
• Company
◦ US Corporation, Small Business, Austin TX based, cleared employees
▪ CEO: Pat Motola, Chairman: Retired Admiral / NSA Director Bobby Ray Inman
◦ Mission: Cyber security solutions for mission critical clouds & networks
◦ How: Cross Domain Applications based on “SmartXD” technology
• SmartXD – Why It Matters
◦ Solves problems with previous cross domain application architectures
◦ Non-Disruptive – cross domain enables existing applications
◦ Simplified Certification – use certified data guards, transfer XML
◦ Rapid Delivery – < 6 months to create new applications
◦ Any Environment – clouds, networks, tagged data, guards.
• Business Model
◦ Flexible, low TCO licensing for BlueSpace COTS applications
◦ Easy, affordable to extend capabilities
◦ Partner centric approach provides complete solutions

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Sentinel
• Capabilities
◦ SolarWinds provides global
cyber situational awareness,
monitoring and management
◦ Sentinel cross domain
enables SolarWinds
Enterprise Operations
Console (EOC)
◦ Sentinel enables Cross
Domain Drill-Down to views &
functions within SolarWinds
modules
◦ Off the shelf & easy to deploy
◦ Easy to use
Cross Domain Cyber Situational Awareness,
Monitoring and Management for SolarWinds software

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Benefits
• NetOps Benefits
• Easy to use - full function EOC user interface with high side drill down.
• Increased cyber situational awareness - resulting in faster issue
identification, analysis, response and resolution.
• Improved IT efficiency - by reducing the number of different displays and
applications required to monitor multiple networks and multiple domains.
• Highly Secure – use of certified data guards and transferring only highly
constrained XML low-to-high.
• Other Benefits
• Simplified Certification – use of certified data guards (existing or selected
to best meet operational needs). Sentinel installs as a PL2 application in
each domain. Low to high XML flow only.
• Low TCO, COTS Solution – eliminates the cost, time and risks associated
with custom solution development.
• Flexibility – new capabilities can be rapidly developed, certified and
deployed.

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Solution Architecture

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Extension Points
• Cross Domain Drill Down – enables EOC users to drill down into
lower domain Orion detail and management functions.
◦ Smart Windowing – view windows from all domains on a single display
using Citrix® Xen® Client technology or equivalent.
• IT Service Management / Help Desk Integration – Sentinel can
create trouble tickets on any domain based on rules and policies
tied to events, alerts and other IT information.
• Custom Cross Domain Reporting - Sentinel can gather additional
information and create customized multi domain reports.
• Guard monitoring - Sentinel can provide information to the high
side Orion server to monitor the health of the data guard.

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Smart Windowing User Experience
◦ EOC with cross domain Orion drill down on a single display
◦ Requires an AFRL SecureView 2.0 Trusted Workstation and Lower
Domain Drill Down extension.

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SmartXD Rapidly Build Smarter Cross Domain Applications
Architecture
• VM in each domain
• Use any data guard
• Access tagged data
• XD enable existing apps
Common Services
• Rapid development
• Eliminate duplication
Application Design
1. Access Data
2. Process Data
3. Communicate
4. Present Data
5. User Interaction
6. Orchestration
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SmartXD Smarter Certification, More Secure
Certification Design
1. Use Guard Certifications
2. SmartXD VMs are PL2
(single domain)
3. SmartXD only transfers
XML (Highly Constrained)
4. Use tagged data access
certifications (CSG)
Security
• Leverage guard and
tagged data security
• Eliminate unnecessary
data duplication
• Eliminate risk of
complex data trojans
• Guard XML schema
checking and dirty word
scans
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Partners
Integration/Reseller
Technology

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• SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC’s trademarks, service marks, logos
and copyrights are the exclusive property of SolarWinds
Worldwide, LLC. For a complete list of SolarWinds trademarks,
service marks, and logos, please visit
www.solarwinds.com/trademarks. All other trademarks or works
mentioned herein are the intellectual property of their
respective companies. SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC is not
affiliated with any of the respective companies.

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