Welcome to the January 2007 Edition of Foundry Flash!

Guard Your Network with Network Access Control

Enterprises are adding network access control (NAC) to police user access to the network and eliminate threats brought onto the network by infected hosts. Many organizations are turning to NAC to conform to HIPAA regulations, which require the coupling of identity to information access. NAC certainly plays a role in HIPAA, as well as other compliance regulations, but most CTOs and CIOs realize that understanding who is accessing corporate data is a business necessity. And as more guests and mobile users enter the network perimeter, enterprises must identify these known and unknown clients as serious threats to the network or garden-variety users.

NAC solutions and IETF standards are continuing to evolve, and Foundry is working with a number of security leaders to support multiple environments.

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Foundry Network Admission Control Architecture
Using the Foundry architecture, clients can be proactively checked to see if they are compliant with the IT security policy. Clients that do not comply with IT security policy can either be denied access to the network or given quarantined network access. This white paper offers an in-depth look at the Foundry architecture, plus:

• How to provide guest user access to restricted portions of the network
• Best practices for designing and implementing a switched network with scalable, high-performance, standards-based authentication and admission control
• Review of the short-term and long-term trends and prospects for the technologies behind endpoint admission control

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PARTNER BRIEFS

Sygate and Foundry Add Network Trust with NAC
Sygate and Foundry join forces to eliminate viruses and worms from propagating throughout the enterprise network. When internal sources pose a threat to the network, Sygate and Foundry enforce corporate security policies and deny access to or quarantine the suspect client.

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Lockdown and Foundry Enforce NAC
Combining endpoint enforcement technology with Layer 2 and Layer 3 switches keeps devices off the network that do not meet IT security requirements. Foundry and Lockdown lock out viruses and worms from the corporate LAN.

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