ConSentry lands more funding

ConSentry Networks lands $9.4 million in funding Security: Network Access Control Alert NetworkWorld.com | Security Research Center | Update Your Profile Sponsored by Trend Micro An Effective Security Strategy. Reduce the complexity of your security approach while improving your defenses and lowering costs. Find out how in this whitepaper, "Lower Security Risks and Costs by Minimizing the Time to Protection." Reduce the complexity in acquiring, deploying, and managing security with a combination of hosted services and products. Spotlight Story ConSentry lands more funding By Tim Greene Even in these hard economic times ConSentry Networks has managed to land another round of funding - this one for $9.4 million. Read full story Tim Greene is senior editor at Network World. Related News: ConSentry switches NAC around a bit ConSentry integrates standard functionality for network-access control directly into a switch device it calls LANShield - which then replaces your existing access switches. ConSentry's LANShield gear has NAC ConSentry makes switches that support NAC, and that is how the company hyped itself when it started out, but the gear does a lot more. Taco Bueno taps ConSentry for more than switching When restaurant chain Taco Bueno ran out of access ports it decided to buy ConSentry switches in part because they helped fill security and access control needs that other switches couldn't. ConSentry expects to be a serious NAC competitor The new CEO at ConSentry Networks will aim at growing the company via alliances in sales, software and OEM agreements. ConSentry CEO talks up security issues Network-access-control start-up ConSentry Networks has filled its long-vacant CEO position with Joe Golden, a partner in Accel Partners, a ConSentry investor. 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