Network Admission Control
Viruses, worms, spyware, and malious code are still the #1 causes of financial loss according to the FBI/CSI report. Implications: downtime, recovery, lost productivity, credibility, and legal implications.
Network Admission Control allows the network to authenticate, authorize, evaluate, and remediate wired, wireless, and remote users and their machines prior to allowing users onto the network. It ensures that the systems internally and remotely are clean before given a usable IP address. NAC also allows for a great guest access enforceable policy.
Benefits
- Ensures endpoints (laptops, PCs, PDAs, servers, etc.) conform to security policy
- Proactively protects against worms, viruses, spyware, and malware; focuses operations on prevention, not reaction
- Prevents non-compliant and rogue endpoints from impacting network
- Assesses all endpoints across all access methods, including LAN, wireless connectivity, remote access, and WAN