Aligning with industry leaders to deliver enhanced security and policy solutions

Concord, N.H. – October 25, 2005 – Bradford Networks, developer of security and policy enforcement solutions for enterprise networks, today announced that its flagship product, Bradford Campus Manager, will support Microsoft Network Access Protection technology, an extensible standards-based solution for enabling users to securely access enterprise networks.

Bradford Campus Manager will interoperate with Microsoft Network Access Protection architecture to offer greater protection against security threats that attack end-user devices. A utomatically enforcing access of endpoints that do not comply with network security policies is paramount to controlling the spread of viruses, spyware, malware, and network attacks.

Bradford Campus Manager currently not only verifies endpoint compliance but acts as a significant management tool in the areas of user registration and authentication, quarantining and remediation, switch device management, and identity management. Bradford Campus Manager is a comprehensive solution that helps control network activities, which will allow it to align well with the long term plans of the Microsoft Network Access Protection architecture.

The Bradford solution has the capability of point of access control for all leading switch vendors on the market today. That control functionality, combined with proactive isolation of ‘at risk’ computers, makes Bradford Campus Manager an ideal solution for all enterprise networks. Supporting NAP technology architecture is another step in enhancing the Bradford solution.

“Through relationships with companies like Bradford Networks, Network Access Protection will deliver a comprehensive, end-to-end solution for policy compliance,” said Mike Schutz, senior product manager in the Windows Server Division at Microsoft. “ Bradford’s support of Microsoft Network Access Protection will help deliver a solution that protects corporate assets, controls the spread of viruses, and addresses security concerns of IT organizations.”

“Aligning with industry security standards is very important to Bradford,” said Mike Gadoury, founder and CEO of Bradford Networks. “It has always been our goal to provide customers with a solution that is based on current and emerging standards to ensure interoperability and investment protection.”

Bradford Campus Manager offers a robust endpoint compliance application which ensures users meet network security policies prior to being allowed access to the network. If a user attempts to connect a non-compliant device to the network, that device is immediately isolated to a safe quarantine area and the user must remediate the issue. Bradford Campus Manager is also a sophisticated policy enforcement application and will ensure that security, acceptable use, bandwidth, and other policies are all complied with.

About Bradford Networks

Bradford is an industry leader in developing innovative enterprise network policy enforcement solutions. We allow our customers to leverage their current investment in their multi-vendor network infrastructure and deliver significant features and benefits in the areas of policy enforcement, monitoring, and control of enterprise networks. Through the enforcement of network usage policies, our solution helps ensure that a customer’s network is safe and secure. We solve real world network issues, such as: controlling unwanted users, enforcing version control, setting policies, network access, and overall client and device management.