You were just brought into an organization as its CTO. The board thinks the organization’s networks may not be effectively managed and require you to do an assessment of various automated network management tools. The network management tools the board is interested in are used for (a) security policy compliance, (b) network bandwidth management, and (c) network asset management. Your report to the board must identify each tool by product name and provide a short explanation about how each tool works. In addition, the report must compare, at least, two tools for each of the three network management areas. Which is the best tool for each area and why? Can one tool be used for managing more than one area? Why or why not?
Required Section Headings:
Introduction
Policy Compliance Tool
Bandwidth Management Tool
Asset Management Tool
Tool Comparison
Summary/Conclusion
Remember to support your statements with facts from primary and/or secondary sources (i.e., attribution/citations and references). In addition, material from the course textbook or the textbook’s author(s) cannot comprise more than 25% of the sourced and/or quoted material.
Papers must be written using a formal, expository writing style with no more than 25% of the paper being composed of bulleted items.
