Network Sentry Foundation is the intelligent base of the Network Sentry Family, featuring built-in network discovery, management, and control functions. Its extensive feature set enables dynamic discovery of all network-attached endpoints, along with the ability to configure and enforce security policy controls. Network Sentry Foundation provides complete visibility of all endpoints attached to wired, wireless and VPN environments.
Network Sentry Foundation can be deployed on dedicated hardware appliances from Bradford, or in a VMware-based virtual server environment, providing the flexibility to deploy it in the manner that best meets an organization’s needs.
Manage Security Functions Through a Single Interface
Through a web-based administrative interface, the Network Sentry management console enables administrators to easily navigate the network topology, view all network connections, define policies, establish event criteria, schedule tasks, enable automated actions, and more.
Network devices, ports, users, and endpoint devices can be grouped for easier management and for role-based assignment. Management control features include the ability to locate, enable or disable devices by MAC address, IP address, location, time, and other factors.
The Connection Log provides historical connection information to monitor and track all endpoints on the network. A set of pre-defined reports provides on-demand reporting, while the standards-based database infrastructure provides the ability to quickly generate reports to perform trend analysis and to document regulatory compliance. User-customized views provide administrators with real-time access to.
The Network Sentry Foundation, in conjunction with the any combination of Solutions and Extensions, provides a powerful, flexible, adaptable network security environment to protect network assets, enforce security policies, automate policy-based action, and simplify security operations.
