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Out-of-Band, Multi-Vendor Architecture Delivers Flexibility, Speedy Deployment

Concord, NH and London – Bradford Networks, a leading provider of comprehensive network access control (NAC) solutions, announced today that it is the NAC solution of choice for 30 United Kingdom universities and hospitals looking for comprehensive network access security for wired, wireless, and VPN networks.

Organizations like Southampton University Hospital NHS Trust, Cardiff University, and University of Liverpool selected Bradford NAC solutions, because the technology allows the organizations to invest into a modular, future-proof solution that can scale to meet their short and long term requirements for user access control.

“In addition to positioning the hospital for future growth, Bradford’s NAC Director protects us from threats coming from unknown and unmanaged desktop and wireless devices that can introduce viruses and other malware to our corporate network,” said Ryan Hewitt, network manager, Southampton University Hospital NHS Trust, a health care provider for Southampton and South West Hampshire. “NAC Director gives us a way to manage the endpoint compliance process, guaranteeing that the burgeoning number of third-party devices were up to date with virus and operating system patches and updates.”

IT personnel in the UK selected Bradford’s NAC appliances to provide flexible access control based on multiple policies for different users on different networks. Bradford’s out-of-band, distributed architecture leverages existing network infrastructures and scales easily to hundreds of thousands of users and works in multi-vendor, multi-platform environments.

“Bradford’s ability to do different policy scans for staff, postgraduates, and undergraduates has given us a flexible and easy process to allow users to connect their own devices to our networks while securing and protecting networks at the port level,” said Chris Wooff, deputy director, computing services department, University of Liverpool.
Bradford NAC solution are sold and supported in the UK by Khipu Networks, a UK based network security integrator focusing on supplying innovative security solutions across the public and private sector. Khipu is a leading adopter of new and best in breed technology with expert technical staff to ensure that customers get the solutions they need, when they want them and how they need them. Khipu Networks has been a certified Bradford Networks channel partner since 2005.

“The NAC checklist for academic and enterprise organization in the UK and Ireland mirrors that of our 300 North American customers – easy-to-manage access control that delivers identity management, endpoint compliance, and usage policy enforcement,” said Mike Gadoury, Bradford Networks founder and CEO. “Our open architecture allows customers to deploy our technology on one portion of the network and then gradually expand how much of the network is being secured and what capabilities are put in place.”