INCIDENT MANAGEMENT

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PANOPTICON is an enterprise incident management suite developed to consolidate information and provide tools that enable consistency and accuracy in response and reporting. All while improving efficiency and providing insightful metrics.

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Incident parameters like IP address and event date are automatically extracted and used to lookup additional information like host type and user name. Moreover, system management tools, IDS, and SIEM can be quickly integrated with PANOPTICON, which gathers data for use in workflow execution. A built-in library of workflow and response templates is used to execute common incident types. This response library is capable of disabling offending users, performing system quarantines, and/or other necessary actions. Detailed reporting is provided to help an enterprise identify gaps and measure effectiveness.

Incident parameters like IP address and event date are automatically extracted and used to lookup additional information like host type and user name. Moreover, system management tools, IDS, and SIEM can be quickly integrated with PANOPTICON, which gathers data for use in workflow execution. A built-in library of workflow and response templates is used to execute common incident types. This response library is capable of disabling offending users, performing system quarantines, and/or other necessary actions. Detailed reporting is provided to help an enterprise identify gaps and measure effectiveness.

When used as the primary incident management tool for an enterprise, leadership can tap into valuable reports on the health and compliance of the organization.

Incident data can also be correlated with risk management data, using ISORA for example, to further demonstrate the maturity and overall security posture of an organization.

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YEARS IN SERVICE

PANOPTICON has been in use at The University of Texas at Austin since 2004. Since then, PANOPTICON has grown to encompass and provide incident management to other entities across the state of Texas, reaching a total of 1.5 million endpoints.

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A Panopti-What?

The Panopticon is a type of institutional building designed by the English philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham in the late 18th century. The concept of the design is to allow all (pan-) inmates of an institution to be observed (-opticon) by a single watchman without the inmates being able to tell whether or not they are being watched. Although it is physically impossible for the single watchman to observe all cells at once, the fact that the inmates cannot know when they are being watched means that all inmates must act as though they are watched at all times, effectively controlling their own behaviour constantly. The name is also a reference to Panoptes from Greek mythology; he was a giant with a hundred eyes and thus was known to be a very effective watchman.
The design consists of a circular structure with an "inspection house" at its centre, from which the manager or staff of the institution are able to watch the inmates, who are stationed around the perimeter. Bentham conceived the basic plan as being equally applicable to hospitals, schools, sanatoriums, daycares, and asylums, but he devoted most of his efforts to developing a design for a Panopticon prison, and it is his prison which is most widely understood by the term.
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon

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