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Overview of CA Anomaly Detector

Your network is one of your most critical resources--and one of your most vulnerable assets. Security threats affect network performance, and the reverse is also true. Whenever the network team makes even a small change, such as adding a new user, security and performance can be compromised.

CA Anomaly Detector is an important tool to help you take a proactive approach to network security and performance.

CA Anomaly Detector is an IT Infrastructure Performance Analysis product that provides insight into customary network performance, traffic composition, and traffic volumes. CA Anomaly Detector alerts you when it detects certain patterns or packets of certain types. Unlike other performance analysis products that are limited to one or two common traffic patterns, CA Anomaly Detector alerts you to anomalous behavior by using the powerful infrastructure that is already provided through the following allied products:

• NetFlow data distillation by CA Network Flow Analysis,
• SNMP collection by CA NetVoyant,
• TCP application performance from CA Application Delivery Analysis (SuperAgent), and
• Voice and video performance from CA Unified Communications Monitor.

By leveraging the data that your CA NetQoS Performance Center installation collects, CA Anomaly Detector performs behavior analysis and security monitoring with minimal configuration and with no need for ongoing data entry.