NAC Director™ Point Solutions

Many organizations understand the power of NAC and are looking for an effective way to introduce its benefits into their organizations. New NAC Director point solutions, subsets of our comprehensive NAC capabilities, each solve one important identity issue, are easily added to the network and provide immediate ROI.

Guest/Contractor Services

Guest/Contractor Services, or GCS, is all about unmanaged users with unmanaged devices – guests, contractors, and others. The services part is enabling enterprises to allow network access for unmanaged users without sacrificing security of their internal network resources and users. It allows access privileges for guests and contractors to be customized based on who they are and their role or relationship to the business

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It also allows IT to delegate routine tasks to non-technical employees – or sponsors – in other functional groups. Sponsors are able to register guest users and set up their network access without having to get IT directly involved. This not only speeds up the process for sponsors and guests, but also takes a burden off of IT staff.

GCS automates the process of registering guest users on the network and enabling role-based access to appropriate network resources. GCS helps IT staff, internal sponsors, and guest users to be more productive and keeps the enterprise network secure.

User Visibility and Control

Device Profile and Control

Device Profile and Control, or DPC, is all about endpoint devices. The profile part is being able to positively identify devices attaching to your network and to classify them by type – such as a printer, an IP phone, or a medical imaging device. The control part is being able to decide what devices are allowed on the network and what resources they can or cannot access based on the type of device.

DPC automates the process of identifying and profiling all endpoint devices and either allowing access to appropriate network resources (for authorized devices) or blocking access (for unauthorized devices).

Behavior Monitoring and Control

Behavior Monitoring and Control, or BMC, is all about behavior of users and devices on the network. The monitoring part is about watching network activity using third-party technologies like intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDS/IPS), traffic monitors (NetFlow), packet shapers (Packeteer), and others. The control part is being able to identify users and devices responsible for inappropriate or threatening behavior and to be able to stop the behavior at the point where it starts on the network.

BMC automates the process of identifying users and/or devices responsible for inappropriate or threatening behavior and mitigating the issue by modifying the offender’s network access.