Nokia NetGuard Audit Compliance Manager (ACM) automates the audit and analysis of all configuration parameters in physical and virtual networks. NetGuard ACM extracts real-time parameter settings from physical network elements, virtual and cloud native network functions and performs data integrity analysis by comparing the results to industry and network operators’ gold standards. It also offers compliance audit by comparing actual configurations against international security benchmarks, best practice guidelines and regulatory requirements. To help prevent service degradations and process inefficiencies and report compliance level, NetGuard ACM also identifies and reports misconfigurations.