VanguardMS Deploys VoyenceControl

TMCnet Contributing Editor

Vanguard Managed Solutions (VanguardMSTM), headquartered in Mansfield, is a trusted name in the field of management services in the US. Companies with a small capital structure, who are unable to establish personalized IT support systems, rely on the efficient, cost-effective, customized, and expert services of Vanguard. They can avail such services by paying a monthly subscription fee.

Recently the company entered into collaboration with Voyence, a leader in the field of automated network change and configuration management (NCCM) solutions, with a view to integrate the latter’s key product, VoyenceControl, within its Network Operating Center (NOC).

VanguardMS intends to deploy VoyenceControl within its network to let its clients (retail chain operators) sustain high performance Point-of-Sale (POS) transactions. In addition, this will also facilitate in gaining secured accessibility to consumer’s credit card information and compliance to Payment Card Industry (PCI) norms.

President of the VanguardMS’ Managed Services business unit, Josh Levine said in a press release, “It’s critical for us to offer our clients a level of service that can help them meet PCI standards and maintain compliance within those regulations. It’s extremely time-consuming for retail chains to gather the data needed to comply with PCI mandates, and more importantly, assemble it into a plausible report for IT auditors to follow. With VoyenceControl, we can automatically track anyone that has access to our clients’ network devices, log who made what changes, and if those changes are authorized or in compliance with PCI mandates.”

Voyence, a pioneer in the field of configuration and change management solutions, provides services that mechanize the critical change, compliance and activation processes. VoyenceControl, its premier offering, helps corporations in reducing their operational costs, enhancing security, and assuring compliance to regulatory norms.

Founded on a multi-tiered architecture, VoyenceControl renders efficacy to maintenance and management of numerous devices throughout a heterogeneous infrastructure. Deployment of VoyenceControl will benefit Vanguard in several ways. By thoroughly mechanizing its reporting and documentation process, it will be able to provide quick business solutions to its clients.

Levine added, “We have a retail client that needs to rotate passwords across 2,000 network devices. Doing this process manually would take five minutes per device or a total of seven days to complete the password rotation. Because VoyenceControl covers a diverse portfolio of devices out-of-the-box, we can automatically allocate our clients a rotating password to update networked devices and send them a report outlining successful deployment within an hour.”

VoyenceControl will also assist Vanguard in examining and supervising various device changes and configuration instances. In addition, by presenting Vanguard’s network status on a portal, which is secure, innovative, and accessible to the customers VoyenceControl will render VanguardMS perpetual visibility.

Enumerating the benefits of VoyenceControl, Vice President of Marketing Darren Orzechowski said, “Complying with PCI mandates not only helps secure consumer information, but is now a condition of doing business for any organization processing credit card transactions.”

“VanguardMS’ use of VoyenceControl for PCI adherence is an ideal example of how managing and monitoring change and configuration instances can help secure data and streamline the process of complying to government IT mandates,” he surmised.

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Rahul Prabhakar is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To see more of his articles, please visit his columnist page.