The Akab architecture is based on AkabSensors - a family of appliances for management of network data both directly acquired or received from other network appliances/applications.

AkabSensors have crucial role in system monitoring as they provide data to various Anomaly Detection and Event Correlation algorithms run in other higher level appliances.

The AkabSensor family consists of various specialized appliances divided in two groups, Security Management and Network Management appliances: security audit (AS-SA), intrusion detection (AS-ID), bandwidth management (AS-BM), traffic monitoring (AS-TM), and log server (AS-LS).

All AkabSensor appliances for Network Management (BM, TM and LS) are available in stand-alone configuration as well.

Akab Sensor Security Audit, is an Akab appliance specially designed for management and implementation of Vulnerability Assessment – security controls performed to identify possible vulnerabilities in the OS and applications running on network nodes.

Features

AS-SA performs Vulnerability Assessments tests on network appliances and information system in 3 modes available for every single group of appliances/systems:

• Periodically, scheduled in a timeframe, date and hour
• Automatically, launched by the Action Manager (Akab architecture) as a response to specific encountered condition/rule
• On demand, launched manually by an operator

Assessment results then are compared with previous records to examine the tendency through a period.
Assessment data is stored in SQL format for future or forensic analysis.