An enterprise network can have sanctioned and unsanctioned servers on it.
Sanctioned servers are approved by an administrator and perform tasks
such as web page serving and mail routing. Unsanctioned servers are not
approved by the administrator and represent possible security risks. A
service monitor accesses one or more metadata sources having information
describing the enterprise network, such as domain name system (DNS)
records on the Internet. The service monitor analyzes the metadata and
creates a security profile for the enterprise network. The security
profile identifies the sanctioned servers. The service monitor monitors
network traffic for compliance with the security profile, and detects
unsanctioned servers on the network. The service monitor reports
violations of the profile and informs the administrator of the
unsanctioned servers.