Identity-Aware Networking Done Right

It is very rare for the person who intends to disrupt the productivity of your organization to announce it beforehand. It would be nice but highly unlikely as a majority of disruptions are unintentional and caused by well meaning people within the organization itself. They may have brought in their personal device and connected to the network using their corporate identity; they may have provided a visitor access to your entire network and intellectual property; they may have accessed and viewed documents in a portion of the network that was not meant to be shared; they may have visited a social networking site the previous evening and spread a malicious virus throughout the network.

In the past, the scenarios described above would have required an IT department to implement separate solutions from multiple vendors for each issue. One might look at a guest access solution for the one problem, and then a second method to differentiate employee access, and possibly a network access control (NAC) solution to assess the posture of each of the user's endpoints, computers, and smart devices.

The top 3 customer concerns:

Secure mobility within and outside the enterprise, with access to the right resources
Total network visibility - who, what, when, where
Compliance reports that track every user and every device

The Smarter Way to Solve the Problem

A comprehensive solution that allows you to build policies based on a user's and/or device's identity and the context of authentication, and to dynamically differentiate the access privileges based on identity and contextual attributes, is the basis of Avenda's Identity-Aware network access platform. Policies based on user and device identity, location, time and other contextual attributes, including device health, takes network access security to the next level. Adaptive Policy Management is Avenda's phased deployment model for controlling any method of network access - wireless, wired, VPN - on any network without the need for costly network redesign and upgrades or additional appliances.

Implementing an Adaptive Policy Model

A phased deployment model allows you to enforce the proper level of network control that is least disruptive to the user community. Avenda's Adaptive Policy Model allows you to phase the deployment by access type, by use case (employee, guest and partner, device access), by enforcement type, or by location. The solution allows you to secure your network, starting with organization's most vulnerable areas. It gives you the ability to tackle network access and add further control when you and your network are ready.

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