Aruba and Bradford Networks team to offer NAC policy server

Security: Network Access Control This newsletter is sponsored by SonicWALL Webcast: Assessing Risk and Net Security Join this live Webcast on September 12, 2007 at 1:00 p.m. ET/10:00 a.m. PT to learn how assessing your company's risk can lead to a more proactive sustainable security strategy. Hear respected security experts discuss this new risk management approach and its benefits. Click here to get all of the details. Network World's Security: Network Access Control Newsletter, 08/28/07 Aruba and Bradford Networks team to offer NAC policy server By Tim Greene Aruba Networks is teaming up with Bradford Networks to supply all the equipment needed to apply NAC to any device logging into a network, regardless of connection method. The relationship adds to Aruba’s offerings a NAC policy server, which houses the policies needed to enforce access controls on wired, wireless and remote access endpoints. Aruba gear could support NAC but it relied on servers made by other vendors to dictate policy. The addition of the Bradford network server offers an advantage to customers when they add NAC to their networks, they deal with one less vendor if they already have Aruba products deployed. Discover the Business of Gaining Organizational Support for your Security Initiatives. September 10-11, 2007 | The Fairmont Chicago How do you get everyone from the boardroom to the mailroom to comply with your security initiatives? Come collaborate with peers on critical business topics like this at The Security Standard-the only business summit for senior security executives. For the latest in planning and management strategies. Click here for more details. Click here for more details Aruba calls the Bradford equipment Aruba Endpoint Compliance System (ECS), which manage identities of individuals by associating them with MAC addresses, the users' roles in the company, IP addresses, how the device is attached to the network, and time of day. Policies issued by the ECS can be enforced by separate Aruba gear called Aruba Mobility Controller, which includes a stateful Layer 3 firewall. Imposing a set of firewall rules on endpoints based on ECS policies can restrict network access. Mobility Controllers can tap data from endpoints and network devices such as intrusion prevention systems and use the data to help determine what access policies should be applied. The Mobility Controller can also push enforcement to Aruba wireless access points, and using a feature called Remote AP, an access point can extend NAC to remote access users. If the remote user accesses the Internet via an Aruba access point, the access point will grant access as dictated by the NAC policy server. ECS comes in three models to support varying numbers of end users. The E-50 supports up to 1,000 users, the E-100 supports up to 6,000 users and the Network Security Manager can manage groups of E-100 devices to support tens of thousands of end users, Aruba says.   What do you think? Post a comment on this newsletter

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Contact the author: Tim Greene is a senior editor at Network World, covering network access control, virtual private networking gear, remote access, WAN acceleration and aspects of VoIP technology. You can reach him at tgreene@nww.com. This newsletter is sponsored by SonicWALL Webcast: Assessing Risk and Net Security Join this live Webcast on September 12, 2007 at 1:00 p.m. ET/10:00 a.m. PT to learn how assessing your company's risk can lead to a more proactive sustainable security strategy. Hear respected security experts discuss this new risk management approach and its benefits. Click here to get all of the details. ARCHIVE Archive of the Security: Network Access Control Newsletter. BONUS FEATURE IT PRODUCT RESEARCH AT YOUR FINGERTIPS Get detailed information on thousands of products, conduct side-by-side comparisons and read product test and review results with Network World’s IT Buyer’s Guides. Find the best solution faster than ever with over 100 distinct categories across the security, storage, management, wireless, infrastructure and convergence markets. Click here for details. PRINT SUBSCRIPTIONS AVAILABLE You've got the technology snapshot of your choice delivered to your inbox each day. Extend your knowledge with a print subscription to the Network World newsweekly, Apply here today. International subscribers, click here. SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES To subscribe or unsubscribe to any Network World newsletter, change your e-mail address or contact us, click here. This message was sent to: networking.world@gmail.com. Please use this address when modifying your subscription. Advertising information: Write to Associate Publisher Online Susan Cardoza Network World, Inc., 118 Turnpike Road, Southborough, MA 01772 Copyright Network World, Inc., 2007