Network Access Control
If you’re running wireless and allowing 3rd party devices onto your network you need to identify those devices, authenticate who’s using them and scan them to ensure they are not infected. You need NAC…….you need Impulse SafeConnect.
Impulse SafeConnect is the choice for NAC at major colleges and universities – UCLA,
University of Nebraska, South Carolina, Rhode Island, Arizona, Villanova and hundreds more.
“The Help Desk calls were so diminished this year compared to last year’s Cisco Clean Access deployment, we questioned if the Safe•Connect system was turned on or not. It definitely works as advertised!” Brian Ruehl, Information Technology Analyst, University of Cincinnati
Impulse SafeConnect eliminates the problems found in traditional NAC vendor solutions
- Easy to configure and manage
- Continuous assessment of endpoints
- Pre and Post admission monitoring
- Short installation time
- Hardware agnostic
- Layer 2 Independent
- Single device solution
- No need for redundant units – fails open
- Dramatically less help desk support required than competitors
How does it work?
1. The Safe•Connect Policy Enforcer Appliance is installed out-of-line on the organization’s premises and is connected to an aggregation point.
2. The organization configures their desired policies and enforcement rules using the Safe•Connect Policy Management Console by network segment or directory services group.
3. Endpoint devices connecting to the network will be intercepted, authenticated, presented with the organization’s acceptable use policies, and issued a Safe•Connect Policy Key.
4. The Safe•Connect Policy Key certifies that the endpoint device adheres to endpoint security policies on a continuous/real-time basis. It reports non-compliance to the Safe•Connect Policy Enforcer and delivers individualized remediation guidance. The endpoint device remains completely isolated using I-LAN quarantine technology until the policy breach is resolved.
Safe•Connect offers consistent endpoint device support for wired, wireless, and VPN networks.
Security Challenges for education
Educational institutions face a multitude of escalating challenges to secure and maintain their critical information technology assets while continuing to support the open computing philosophies that are the hallmark of higher education. Higher education and K-12 both require a sophisticated, yet flexible, approach to address the unique and evolving concerns posed by a highly mobile population. Because of the escalating number of unknown, personally-managed devices on campuses, it is especially important to be able to enforce and remediate endpoint security policies at the point of network entry using Network Access Control (NAC) technology. Safe•Connect provides a solution that easily integrates into diverse heterogeneous environments with a vendor-independent approach. The inherent scalability advantages of Safe•Connect’s distributed architecture enables institutions to address their NAC enterprise requirements in a cost-effective manner.
Resources
Safe•Connect NAC Awarded Best Deployment Scenario
in the Security Solutions for Education Category!
Click here to read the case study
Learn How One K-12 District Deployed NAC to More than 40 Locations Click here to read the case study
