Education

Building the Identity-based Network Campus

Today's tech-savvy students and staff come to campus ready to take full advantage of the technology available to them. Avenda Systems securely connects users to networks to deliver the coursework, lectures and research needed, both on and off the campus.

IT departments at colleges, universities and K-12 school districts, are constantly faced with the task of assigning logins and ensuring proper authorization rights for a constantly changing population of students, faculty and staff. Ensuring that each group is given the appropriate level of network access had been a challenge. A centralized identity-based network security platform is the first step to ensuring consistent policies for:

• Role based access — easily apply policies to differentiate access to network resources for students, instructors and staff
• Visitor access — streamline authorization for visitors and guests
• Device or endpoint access — seamlessly match a user's access privileges to the type of endpoint they are using; i.e. laptop, desktop or smartphone (iPhone, BlackBerry)

As wireless access has moved from luxury to necessity, many organizations are rolling out initiatives to consolidate inconsistent policies, service and support. It has become increasingly important to cohesively manage user's access privileges, regardless of where they are, on or off the campus. Additional benefits of deploying an Avenda eTIPS solution include the ability to extend policies across departments and schools when ready. These same policies can also be leveraged to enforce wired and VPN access as needed.

Compliance and Monitoring

A growing number of governance initiatives require universities to produce meaningful and accurate reports that tie user identity to network access. Avenda's eTIPS provides the ability to easily consolidate reports across the entire campus ensures that regulators and auditors will receive the periodic reports required to meet adherence standards.

Consider Avenda eTIPS for painless campus-wide access and improved communication

• Consistent, sustainable, high-quality, campus-wide wireless access
• Support for emerging wireless, and endpoint standards
• Reduced operational costs — centralized management, updates and help desk tools