White Paper Directory - Network Access Control

Selecting An Approach For NAC Enforcement: Five Key Issues (by Joel Snyder – Senior Partner, Opus One)

Out-of-Band Architecture Enforces NAC at the Network Edge (by Frank Andrus – CTO, Bradford Networks)

Network Admission Control Executive Positioning Document. This paper explains the vital role that NAC can play as part of a policy-based security strategy, and describes and defines the available NAC approaches.

Choosing a Network Access Control (NAC) Solution that is Right for Your Network

Are you confused about Network Access Control? You are not alone. Today's enterprises are facing a growing challenge in securing access to their networks as the number of corporate mobile users and contractors is increasing exponentially. Adding to this challenge is the difficulty of integrating network security solutions into existing complex and diverse enterprise network infrastructures.

Securing Visitor Access through Network Access Control Technology

Are you looking for a way to manage access control of guest users and unmanaged devices to your network? Securing visitor access to the network is vital to ensuring maximum security over proprietary data, while maintaining maximum productivity amongst these guests. The most effective path to securing your enterprise network from unauthorized contractor and guest users is to deploy a Network Access Control (NAC) solution. This whitepaper provides an overview of the challenges faced by organizations in controlling network access by unmanaged/guest devices.

Network Access Control (NAC): Planning a Successful Rollout and Implementation

Are you looking to deploy a Network Access Control (NAC) solution? Concerned with the deployment challenges? To ensure a successful deployment, a NAC rollout strategy must be developed to minimize network disruption and maintain user productivity while deploying network access control policies. This whitepaper discusses best practices for achieving successful implementation of NAC into any mission-critical enterprise network.

Regulatory Compliance and Network Access Control How do you prove your network is secure? This white paper explores the connection between network access control and regulatory compliance. NAC is about so much more than IT security – it is also critical for complying for prevailing regulatory requirements. How can NAC help with HIPAA and SOX requirements? What’s needed to comply with GLBA? Learn more by reading the white paper or visiting www.impulse.com

Protecting Your Corporate Network: What Do You Know about the Endpoint Device? This white paper discusses how the network access control capabilities of LANDesk® Trusted Access™ available within LANDesk Security Suite 8.6 help organizations protect and secure their enterprise networks at their endpoints to reduce malicious attacks and the resulting downtime, lost productivity, and lost revenues.

Introduction to Network Access Protection. Read this white paper for an overview of NAP scenarios and NAP components, and a brief description of how NAP works for Internet Protocol security (IPsec)-based communication, 802.1X authenticated connections, virtual private network (VPN) connections, and Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) configuration

NAC Architecture Trade-offs: Inline, Out-of-band, Endpoint?This analysis titled Network Access Control: A Multi-Symptom Remedy authored by Stratacast Partners examines the pluses and minuses of the three primary architectural approaches to Network Admission Control.

Examining the Trends Driving Network Security Innovation. An industry report on Network Access Control.

UNUSED IP ADDRESS SPACE: A Nascent Weapon in the War on Security. An analyst paper by Spire Research.

Increasing amounts of corporate data now resides on mobile devices, particularly laptops, which spend more time out of the “safe” office environment, than in it. This exposes this data to attacks from external sources, through unauthorized wireless access (Bluetooth, WiFi), or through copying onto an external storage device (USB, FireWire, Bluetooth, Infrared). Many companies are protecting the perimeters of their networks through Access Control software, but fewer are safeguarding their corporate assets on the endpoints themselves. These white papers help organizations understand what they can do to prevent unauthorized personnel from gaining access to valuable corporate data.

WI-FI Security: The Opportunities & Challenges

Best Practices For Mangaing & Enforcing USB Security

How SENFORCE Endpoint Security Enhances Cisco NAC

Demystifying Network Access Control.This white paper examines the core security problems that gave rise to NAC technology. It addresses organization-specific factors that must be considered when evaluating solutions, and it covers the range of enforcement methods available to keep non-compliant devices from accessing the network.

When is agent-less not agent-less? Interpreting endpoint testing options for network access control. Network access control vendors are eager to claim that testing endpoints using an ActiveX control is an 'agent-less' or 'clientless' solution. In reality, ActiveX controls have many of the same administrative drawbacks of a persistent agent. This paper examines ActiveX testing and compares it to true agent-less testing, where no software need be installed on or downloaded to the endpoints being tested.

White Paper: 360° Network Access Control with TippingPoint. As security threats rapidly become more frequent, targeted and sophisticated, enterprises are tasked with raising the security profile of their networks. Tougher requirements for internal policy compliance and regulatory compliance add even more urgency for organizations to be able to monitor and control their networks. For most, this means implementing network access control, including visibility to endpoints, users, and network traffic, and enforcement of acceptable use of network assets. This paper discusses how TippingPoint’s NAC solution combines visibility and control to enable organizations to monitor and enforce network activity for users, devices and flows.

Datasheet: TippingPoint NAC Policy Server. TippingPoint NAC access policies subject each device and user pair to rigorous authentication, authorization, posture compliance checks and enforcement. Non-compliant devices are directed to remediate based on discovered vulnerabilities. User access rights are controlled through integration with existing user directories, including Active Directory, LDAP and RADIUS. The TippingPoint NAC Policy Server provides centralized policy management as part of the TippingPoint NAC solution and offers advanced reporting and event correlation. The centralized Web-based console allows network administrators to quickly scan the activity and status of all devices currently or historically connected to the network.

Datasheet: TippingPoint NAC Policy Enforcer. The TippingPoint NAC Policy Enforcer provides access control enforcement based on user and device criteria. It allows network administrators to designate access rules based on user identity and device type, rather than traditional port-based segmentation that may only restrict by location. Working in concert with the TippingPoint NAC Policy Server, the NAC Policy Enforcer sits in-line on the network as a Layer 2 bridge, and is typically deployed at the network core. It receives up-to-date policies for any new connection on the network, and any changes in a user’s authentication state, as well as time and location-based rules.

Best Practices for Enterprise Network Security. This white paper covers (1) Aligning security policies to correspond with the priorities of business assets, (2)Establishing security profiles for all the types of devices accessing your network, (3)Establishing security profiles for types of users, and (4)Creating online self-service centers for users.