Partners

The Network Access Control Solution

Force10 Networks® and StillSecure® have partnered to deliver a best-in-class approach to Network Access Control (NAC). The combined solution offers high performance switching/routing and delivers advanced security services to edge, distribution and campus LAN environments.

Key Features

• Superior NAC 802.1X control and policy engine
  • Fast endpoint testing (less than ten seconds in a LAN architecture)
  • Minimal impact on the network (50-60k of data transferred per test session)
  • Optimized for NAC: not a repurposed Nessus scanner or personal firewall
• Comprehensive endpoint testing
  • Flexible testing options: Agentless, ActiveX, Agent-based
  • Hundreds of off-the-shelf tests ship with product
  • New and updated tests released by StillSecure Security Alert Team (SAT) as new endpoint threats identified
• Policies for all end user types

Force10: Reliable Business Networks

Force10 Networks is a pioneer in building and securing reliable, high performance networks that extend pervasive reliability, network control and scalability from the data center to the enterprise wiring closet to create a unified network fabric that is designed to ensure application readiness and protect longterm investment. With patented advances in high performance system and backplane design as well as switching and routing optimization technologies, Force10 delivers the tools that have allowed many of the world’s largest data centers, service providers and research organizations to transform their networks into a strategic asset.

Force10 has pioneered advances in high density Gigabit Ethernet and 10 Gigabit Ethernet switching, routing and security. With its no compromise approach to networking, Force10 enables customers to build and secure reliable networks at the lowest total cost of ownership.

StillSecure: Safe Access®

Safe Access is the information security industry's most comprehensive, flexible network access control (NAC) solution. Awarded SC Magazine's Best Endpoint Security Solution of 2006, Safe Access fits seamlessly into your network architecture and covers the widest range of devices and users.

Safe Access is a complete NAC solution,delivering:

• Pre-connect testing
• Post-connect monitoring
• Flexible endpoint testing, enforcement, and remediation
• Identity-based access controls
• Windows OS and Mac OS X coverage
• Partnerships with the major NAC frameworks
  • extending your investment in Microsoft® and TCG TNC

Safe Access provides five enforcement options for quarantining endpoints. This enables Safe Access to enforce policy compliance across complex, heterogeneous networks. Enforcement options include:

• 802.1X enforcement
• DHCP enforcement
• Endpoint-based enforcement
• Inline enforcement for VPN and RAS connections

Multiple enforcement options can be blended within a Safe Access implementation and managed from a single Web-based console. Additionally, Safe Access offers three flexible endpoint testing options:

• Agentless testing
• ActiveX-based testing
• Agent-based testing

 

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