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Automated infrastructure discovery & analysis (AIDA)

Project overview

IDD is a network-based IT asset discovery and categorization tool. It combines various discovery, scanning and traffic analysis programs with distributed automation and data mining techniques into a single best-of-breed IT infrastructure assessment tool. IDD is commonly used to perform auto-discovery on corporate infrastructures in support of strategic outsourcing engagements and due diligence, for reconciliation of system counts in large existing customer contracts, and for network documentation and infrastructure vulnerability assessment. The tool is also instrumental in providing a baseline for infrastructure consolidation, business optimization, and IT audit and governance projects.

 
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 Publications    
[1] Andreas Kind, Dieter Gantenbein, Hiroaki Etoh
"Relationship Discovery with NetFlow to Enable Business-Driven IT Management"
1st IEEE/IFIP Int. Workshop on Business-Driven IT Management (BDIM 2006) in conjunction with NOMS'06, Vancouver Canada, April 7, 2006.
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[2] Dieter Gantenbein
"Tracking Assets and Vulnerabilities in Corporate Networks"
ERCIM News No. 56, January 2004.
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[3] Dieter Gantenbein, Luca Deri
"Categorizing Computing Assets According to Communication Patterns"
Tutorial on Asset Inventory and Monitoring in a Networked World, May 20, Pisa, Italy
Conf. on Networking 2002, Pisa, Italy, May 19-24, 2002.
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