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NAC Director’s Powerful Role-Based Controls Secures Guest and Remote Employee Access

Concord, NH & Darmstadt, Germany – Bradford Networks, an award-winning provider of comprehensive network access control (NAC) solutions, announced today that the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology (SIT) has selected NAC Director to protect its enterprise network because of its role-based access control for wired, wireless, and virtual private network (VPN) connections.

NAC Director was the product of choice for SIT, the security arm of Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Europe’s largest applied research institute, because of its ability to effectively control the wide range of different types of users across the 56 Fraunhofer Institutes in Germany. SIT, headquartered in Darmstadt, reviews, integrates, and manages security with broad expertise in radio-frequency identification (RFID), public key infrastructure ( PKI), smartcards, biometrics, and other technologies.

In addition, NAC Director was selected for the flexibility from use of both persistent and non-persistent agents, its wide hardware and software support, and powerful endpoint compliance tools.

“We have to differentiate between employees at our own institute, employees from different institutes, project partners, or guests. Each has its own authorization, regardless of whether access within the institute, via wireless access, a network outlet, or from a VPN connection,” said Michael Epah, Fraunhofer, SIT Project Manager. “It was of particular importance that the solution supports the deployment of digital user certificates of our PKI across wireless, wired, and VPN LANs. Bradford was the only product that met all of our selection criteria.”

Additionally Fraunhofer SIT and Bradford plan to cooperate on product development, with Fraunhofer employees serving as advisors to Bradford on future NAC capabilities.
“The Fraunhofer Institute is one of the world’s leading security experts. Their selection of Bradford is a tremendous acknowledgement of the comprehensive and flexible design of our out-of-band architecture,” said Mike Gadoury, Bradford Networks founder and CEO.

Bradford Networks has pioneered advanced NAC solutions since 2002 and helps solve network access control challenges facing education, healthcare, financial services, government and other organizations by securing wired, wireless, and VPN networks.

About Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology

The Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology (SIT) in Darmstadt is one of the pioneers of computer-based cooperation and IT security in Europe. It researches and develops together with partners from science, industry and users ahead of international competition to ensure the trustworthiness of information and the reliability of IT infrastructures. Only then, it is possible that communication, electronic business transactions and global co-operation are successfully spread across the Internet. The Institute is a member of the Fraunhofer group for Information and Communication Technology (ICT). It offers a comprehensive program of conferences, seminars and specialist presentations to impart its research and development results to experts and users.