ANOMALY DETECTION
WHAT IS A DATA ANOMALY?
It is any Data event that does not fall within the results you consider “normal”. For example, if your employee has a 9 to 5 job function yet consumes 95% of their data between the hours of Midnight to 5 AM, that is a Data Anomaly.
The Anomaly Module is the software component of the Anomaly Server that allows Enterprises to configure data events that might be relevant to them for cost, security or human resource management reasons. Once these anomalies are configured the Telicost client/portal will compare the real time user data generated by the Agents against the configured anomalies and trigger the necessary alarms to ensure you are alerted of these events as quickly as necessary.
WHY DO I NEED IT?
Enterprises have traditionally had tools to monitor what their users do on the Enterprise network. Until Telicost, there have not been tools available to monitor employee usage on Public Networks.
Example:
Consider the following example. A company has two employees who use their corporate laptop to connect to a Public Network while at a Coffee Shop at 2 AM and upload 200Mb of data. The first employee is the Sales Representative for the Asian Pacific territory doing his job by sending his customers product presentations. The second employee is a senior software developer uploading raw source code files to Google Docs.
These are completely different data events that would go undetected by Enterprises not using Telicost.
Our solution would immediately alert the Administrator of this event, store the event log in the Audit Trail and allow the company to run reports on the frequency of these events.
PRE-CONFIGURED ANOMALIES INCLUDE:
- Off hour usage
- Unusually large file transfers
- Device inactivity
- Unusual network interface usage (LAN, Wi-Fi, Cellular)
- Work vs. personal usage
- Projected telecom overage charges
- Device roaming
- Dramatic increases or decreases in activity
- Usage of non-sanctioned / new devices
