Data Sheet
Cisco Network Optimization Service: Risk
Assessment
With every advancement in technology, you become more dependent on your network
for communication, collaboration, and innovation. As your business grows, Cisco can
help you maintain good network health, so you can realize the full value of your
investment.
Your next-generation network requires a reliable infrastructure that performs near peak ability and availability at all
times. But as you adopt new business processes, applications, and technologies, it can be difficult to maintain a
stable and optimized network.
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The Cisco Network Optimization Service: Risk Assessment is an introductory offer designed to assess and
identify areas that can negatively impact your network performance and business objectives. The service taps into
the knowledge and expertise of Cisco engineers to help make your network more resilient, more reliable, and well
primed for peak performance.
Ongoing, best-in-class customers use Cisco tools and optimization offers, such as Network Optimization Service:
Risk Mitigation (which is the follow up offer to Risk Assessment), as an optimization subscription service to help
manage their networks, make better infrastructure decisions, and maximize business outcomes related to IT.
Using proven methodologies and tools, we perform a thorough assessment of risks to your network’s underlying
infrastructure, including hardware, software, network topology and design, and protocol and configuration
resiliency. As part of the evaluation process, we will compare your network with industry-leading practices and
identify any gaps.
After the analysis is complete, we identify and prioritize areas of risk and provide a set of high-level
recommendations for improving your network’s resiliency, availability, and performance. We also provide
recommendations on how to update conflicting, dated, and missing configurations.
The Cisco Network Optimization Service: Risk Assessment can:
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Identify risks that can slow your ability to introduce new network services
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Improve alignment of IT with business objectives and strategies
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Improve service experience through effective configuration and change management
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Strengthen your ability to predict and control network behaviors
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Improve business continuity, moving from reactive support model to proactive support model
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Key Steps and Deliverables
The Cisco Network Optimization Service: Risk Assessment includes the key steps and deliverables described in
Table 1.
Table 1.
Network Optimization Service: Risk Assessment Key Steps and Deliverables
Key Steps
Deliverables
● Conduct kickoff meeting to identify and align project goals.
● Interview key stakeholders.
● Collect and review existing network documentation.
● Collect network configuration and inventory data (on site).
● Analyze all collected data.
● Prepare detailed network resiliency presentation based on interviews, and collected and
analyzed data.
● Develop executive presentation on network health vulnerabilities and remediation
recommendations.
● Prepare risk assessment reports.
● Presentation of findings, including:
◦ Executive summary
◦ Detailed technical analysis
◦ Actionable recommendations
● Risk assessment reports, including:
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Hardware end of life
Software Infrastructure analysis
Software security alerts (PSIRT)
Field notices
Best-practices configuration analysis
Device security assessment
Proprietary Tools
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Common Service Platform Collector (CSPC) - a Cisco collection tool used for gathering device hardware
and software information. CSPC software relies on:
◦ Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) reachability, using a read-only string for inventory
information
◦ Virtual terminal (VTY [Telnet or SSH]) access to collect operational and configuration data (show
commands).
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Network Profiler - a Cisco toolset used for inventory profiling and configuration best-practices analysis. It
uses more than a decade of Cisco intellectual capital and uses information collected through CSPC.
Service Specifications
The Cisco Network Optimization Service: Risk Assessment is a 90-day service engagement, available for
businesses with up to 2000 edge devices and up to 300 core devices. It addresses four key areas of network
health, as described in Table 2.
Table 2.
Cisco Network Optimization Service: Risk Assessment Service Specifications
Service Area
Service Description
Network components
Analysis of the Cisco routing and switching platforms and
modules to identify availability and lifecycle issues with specific
components
Service Subsections
● General hardware information
● Hardware and software release
management
● Modularity
Size Limits
Up to 2000
devices
● Scalability
Network topology
Analysis of the hardware connectivity resiliency at network
Layers 2 and 3
● Network redundancy
● Network diversity
Up to 300
devices
● Network hierarchy
Protocol and
configuration resiliency
Analysis of the Layer 2 and Layer 3 protocol configurations for
comparison with industry-leading practices
● Layer 2 protocols
● Layer 3 protocols
Up to 300
devices
● High-availability features
Network device security
Analysis of the various aspects of Cisco device-level security
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● Management plane security
● Control plane security
Up to 2000
devices
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Availability and Ordering
The Cisco Network Optimization Service: Risk Assessment is available through Cisco and Cisco partners.
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