Created on 15.6.2007
“Keep the good guys on, keep the bad guys off, whilst keeping the network in motion”
Introducing the NAC in Motion approach to secure and prevent network access by an unknown or unauthorised device / user.
From research undertaken within organisations across government, education, health and corporate markets, it has been identified that the majority, do not have any visibility of what or where devices / users are connected into the network , let alone the systems in place to prevent unauthorised network access. In fact, despite increasing regulation over data protection, many organisations do not see the requirement to have such a facility within their organisation and believe it’s a complex solution that could affect user experience.
Threats to organisations constantly mutate whether externally or internally generated. Too often the drivers to implement security are as a result of a serious incident or following a regulatory audit,
Some key drivers to securing network access include:
- Identification of what and who is connected to the network.
- Prevention of unknown or unauthorised devices connecting to the network.
- Ensuring the integrity and stability of all network based services.
- Ensuring authorised devices meet corporate policies (anti-virus etc)
- To enforce the organisations Acceptable Use Policies
- Protection against illegal / unathorised activites on the network.
- To build the fundamentals of a Network Access Control Architecture
These are only a few of the reasons why organisations are now looking at methods and processes to secure their networks at the port and access point level.
Customer perceived reasons on why not to implement network access security include:
- Risk management – Nothing bad has happened yet
- Risk management – Concerned of the impact of change
- How does it affect existing users?
- Does the network need changing?
- Will this introduce more risk (single point of failure)?
- Internal Politics – Business Units vs IT Security Requirements
- Cost
NAC in Motion is a minimal impact, highly manageable and secure solution that reduces risk, offers choice and flexibility and can meet the requirements of the most cautious project manager, business management and IT security team.
Our NAC in Motion approach addresses the key requirements by providing a simple phased process to ‘lock-down’ and manage the network without complexity or reliance on a network topology, and provides the building blocks to implement a full or phased Network Access Control and Identity Management architecture across the entire organisation. The system has the following key features:
- Minimal impact, non-complex approach to secure the network
- Its ‘out of band’ (not in-line) architecture allows the solution to be rolled out in a phased approach on a port by port basis, therefore be implemented to key areas or across the entire network
- In passive mode, it will identify all devices on a network without any disruption to services or user experience
- Prevent, log and alert if any unknown device attempts to access the network
- Will provide a full inventory of the network including:
- - Devices; PC’s, laptops, printers, services switches, hubs, wireless access points
- - IP and MAC addresses
- - Location (switch port / access point)
- - Devices online / offline or blocked
- - Graphical view of the entire LAN / WAN including switch ports, access points and devices connected
- Enforce Acceptable Use Policy (if required). Using its embedded client-less or client installed agent, it can check devices meet the corporate PC policy prior to allowing access to the network
- Cost effective entry level solution
- Provides the fundamental solution, allowing organisations to implement Network Access Control in a phased ’non intrusive’ approach.
The system has been deployed into over 350 customer organisations across different wired and wireless environments, supporting a wide range of switch vendors and major Operating Systems (Linux, Apple and Microsoft platforms). It is possibly one of the most deployed and widely tested NAC solutions available on the market. We have an extensive number of customer references.
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For further information or a live NAC in Motion demonstration, please contact Khipu Networks:
- T: 01252 773184
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