CAMPUS MANAGER ™ FOR EDUCATION ENVIRONMENTS

In an educational environment, there are many variables that make maintaining network integrity a challenge. Students bring their computers with them when they return to campus, often bringing along potential problems that may affect the network. Challenges include configuration problems, non-compliant software applications, and virus-related issues. Network administrators in the education environment face a number of challenges:

• Cyclical and recurring introduction of the unknown
• Fall and Spring spikes
• An influx of students – and their devices – arriving on campus all at once

• Identification and differentiation of user groups
• Facilitating secure visitor and guest access
• Verifying the state of network devices
• Providing appropriate resource access based on defined rules and groups

• Controlling an uncontrolled environment
• Guests, visitors, and unmanaged laptops
• New security threats

• Technical resource constraints
• Thinly spread IT staff
• The need for automated remediation to reduce helpdesk intervention

• Cost of downtime
• Network availability and user productivity
• Technical staff and operating budget

Campus Manager’s powerful feature set helps to control and monitor network activity and ensure that network policies are enforced. The solution allows network professionals in the educational environment to:

• Enforce security policy and isolate non-compliant devices
• Force network users to obtain up-to-date anti-virus software and definitions
• Quarantine “at-risk” devices
• Enforce role-based access
• Provide Network Access Control (NAC) at the point of access
• Force student and device authentication and registration
• Enforce network acceptable use policies
• Locate rogue DHCP devices and disable them