If this appliance can do all it's purported to do in this CW snippet, I'd like to check one out.  Seriously.  The product is from RedSeal Systems Inc. and is called the SRM 3000 security appliance and runs about $25,000.  "...the appliance's software gathers system data from routers, firewalls and servers and then creates graphical risk and threat maps based on para­meters such as patch levels, application traffic patterns and access control lists."