Guests, business partners, and contractors need flexible network access in order to interact with various groups within an organization. Access privileges must be aligned with each user’s role in supporting the business, and must follow the user regardless of location or access method, including wired and wireless LAN connections.

Bradford Networks’ Guest Manager allows you to extend appropriate access privileges to authorized visiting users, while enforcing strict policy controls to maintain the security of your network. Guest Manager empowers you to take control of guest management, from establishing security policies to provisioning and securing network access.

Guest Manager starts by dynamically identifying visiting users and unmanaged devices when they come on the network and enables network access based on the identity or role of each user. With Guest Manager, you control where guests go on your network, and you are able to track where they have been.

Given the administrative burden that provisioning guest accounts can place on IT staff, Guest Manager allows non-technical staff to be empowered by IT as authorized sponsors. This feature allows sponsors to set up guest user accounts, within the boundaries of established policies and without the need to engage IT staff directly. IT retains control and gains network-wide visibility, along with logging and reporting on all guest activity – data which can be valuable in demonstrating compliance with regulatory requirements.