Network Access Control
Frustrated with your current NAC vendor? See why Impulse has replaced Cisco and Branford in hundreds of colleges.
“We are light years ahead of where we were last year with Cisco Clean Access. We now have less hardware to maintain,the system is much simpler to manage,easier for the students to use”
North Georgia College and State University
“The Safe•Connect system worked perfectly. The whole setup process per student took about half the time that it did with the old Cisco Clean Access system. This coupled with a 60% reduction in the amount of students seen by the Help Desk this year made for quite a savings of manpower and time.” Charleston Southern University
Safe•Connect’s OpenNAC architecture is the most flexible network access control solution available.
Safe•Connect™ offers an easy to implement and support endpoint policy management system. It seamlessly connects into an existing multi-vendor network infrastructure while providing the flexibility to adhere to each organization’s unique computing policy philosophies.
Its unique architecture provides a true out-of-line NAC solution that is vendor-independent, scalable, and flexible to meet your growth needs – resulting in reduced time, expense, and risk.
- Simpler... Vendor-independent with zero network changes or forklift upgrades.
- Smarter… Out-of-line architecture is five times more scalable.
- Faster… Only NAC managed service available and installs in hours versus days.
Impulse Point’s Safe•Connect Open Network Access Control (OpenNAC) solution enables organizations to automate and enforce endpoint security policies relating to end user authentication, anti-virus, anti-spyware, Microsoft security patches, P2P file sharing and custom policies. The result is a more secure, reliable, and predictable IT network infrastructure that is easy and cost-effective to deploy and maintain.
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.
