CURRENT WEBCAST

Organizations worldwide are under pressure to provide network access to guests, strategic partners, and the contingent workforce. In the last five years, the staffing industry has doubled and it will double again to a $200 billion industry by 2010, according to BusinessWeek. You need to provide appropriate levels of network access to these non-employee users, all while ensuring the security of your network.

• Is your company searching for a solution that provides secure network access for guests and contractors?
• Does your organization run conferences and meetings where users expect to have access to your network? Is your IT staff burdened by creating logins for guests and contractors, each time they come on-site?
• Do you know who the visitors on your network are, and if the devices they're using are safe? Do you need to provide this information to comply with regulatory requirements?

Find out how to keep your network safe - and your IT staff unburdened - by utilizing security solutions from Bradford Networks. Bradford's NAC Director Guest/Contractor Services (GCS) secures unmanaged laptops and PDAs, is easily added to existing networks, and provides a simple upgrade path to complete NAC capabilities. Attend this webcast and learn how to get the best of both worlds: flexible and secure access for visiting users on your enterprise's network.

Craig Richard, Director of Information Technology, Navimedix
Craig Richard is responsible for the strategic and operational aspects of the IT organization within NaviMedix. NaviMedix is the leader and innovator in unifying electronic communications between healthcare providers and their business partners, with a national network of over 500,000 enrolled providers using its solutions and services. For NaviMedix, strategic use of temporary, freelance, and contract workers helps power the company's explosive growth.

Jerry Skurla, VP Marketing, Bradford Networks
Jerry develops and executes marketing strategies and programs to create awareness and demand and build the Bradford Networks brand. Jerry is a proven marketing professional with 20+ years of product, industry, and channel marketing experience and expertise in the networking and telecomm industry. Jerry’s professional background includes senior level assignments at NMS Communications, Nortel Networks, Bay Networks and Wellfleet Communications.

PREVIOUS WEBCASTS

This two-part webcast discusses policy enforcement approaches for Network Access Control (NAC), and provides an introduction to Bradford Networks’ unique out-of-band NAC architecture.

Part I - NAC Enforcement: Comparing Approaches
by Joel Snyder - Senior Partner, Opus One

Joel Snyder of consultancy Opus One discusses four common approaches to NAC enforcement and evaluates each in terms of five key criteria: security, flexibility, deployment risk, scalability, and cost.

Part II - Edge Enforcement for NAC Using Out-of-Band Architecture
by Frank Andrus - Chief Technology Officer, Bradford Networks

Bradford Networks CTO discusses Bradford’s unique out-of-band architecture and explains how it delivers the industry’s most effective and flexible edge enforcement solution for NAC.

Educational institutions worldwide face a variety of safety and security issues on campus every day. Recent events have prompted many colleges and universities to institute new and enhanced emergency notification systems to handle events ranging from canceling classes due to severe weather to campus-wide evacuation due to potentially catastrophic events.

Bradford Networks Campus Manager can play an important role as part of a comprehensive emergency notification system. Campus Manager is a network access control (NAC) solution that authenticates users and their devices before providing policy-based access to network resources.

With its broadcast messaging capabilities, Campus Manager can also send messages in real time to all users connected to the network and notify them of an emergency situation. Given the on-line life of today's college student, this can be an extremely effective means of reaching a diverse community of users, regardless of their physical location.

Join Bradford Networks and Bryant University to learn how Campus Manager can enhance emergency notification systems while securing access to network resources. To download the Bryant University case study, click here.

Thursday - December 6, 2007
1 PM Eastern Time
(10 AM Pacific Time)

Duration: 1 hour

Financial institutions must balance the business imperative of protecting confidential data with the need to ensure that employees, vendors and contractor can access the data they need to do their jobs. From a network perspective, this means protecting the network, while at the same time providing access to it. How can banks manage this contradiction?

Effective network access control often requires providing “guest” access to the internet and some internal systems through wireless and wired access points within conference rooms, guest offices and other locations. Additionally, as the current pace of business requires employees to work from home or other remote locations, banks need to allow staff to access systems from any location, using any device. All of this while protecting data integrity and ensuring regulatory compliance.

When asked about these issues as part of Grant Thornton's 17th Annual Survey of Bank Executives, only 59 percent of respondents said they were confident about their ability to verify systems and control technology risks. In order to mitigate risk while getting the most out of the network, financial institutions must create and automate the network access control process, keeping five key principles in mind:

• Identity management
• Endpoint compliance
• Policy enforcement
• Consistent user experience across wireless, wired and VPN access
• GLBA and PCI compliance and reporting

Wednesday - October 10, 2007
10:30 AM Eastern Time
(7:30 AM Pacific Time)

1:30 PM Eastern Time
(10:30 AM Pacific Time)

Duration: 1 hour