Endpoint Security Management

Overview

Trusted mobility represents a fundamental shift in how IT managers will deploy and manage access for endpoint networks. As a whole, the industry recognizes that traditional fortress-based approaches to protecting devices on the corporate network are not appropriate for today’s evolving threats. In addition, current endpoint security software designed to protect your network may not even be under the control of IT organizations; users are often free to change settings or disable it entirely, further exacerbating the risk. IT managers require a policy-based network access strategy that can enforce entitlement rights, protect endpoint devices and the corporate network from threats, and reduce the risk costly network downtime and lost productivity of the mobile workforce.

Problem

Enterprise IT organizations are facing increasingly sophisticated security challenges for securing mobile devices and typical users of a corporate network. Advances in WiFi, wired broadband, and mobile data further complicate of access control management for any IT organization. In addition, the growing demands of a mobile workforce network threats caused by viruses, spyware, worms, and others are an evolving reality and target all network connections.

IT challenges include:

• Keeping employees and visitors productive while securing their devices against new and evolving viruses, spyware and other threats
• Protecting corporate data from mobile devices not protected by the corporate network
• Providing a seamless cross platform single sign-on (SSO) user connectivity experience
• Ensuring endpoints compliance with both regulatory and corporate security policy requirements
• Protecting business critical applications from security vulnerabilities while maintaining business continuity
• Preventing theft of IT resources and vital corporate information on lost or stolen mobile endpoints devices

Solution

Meetinghouse’s Endpoint Security Management solution enables IT to design and implement an 802.1X-based security strategy that positions the endpoint device as a defensible and secure new perimeter network. As a result, IT managers can deploy an identity-based network access approach that can simultaneously enforce machine and user authorization rights, protect the integrity of devices, and reduce security breaches to the corporate network. Furthermore, our AEGIS products are designed to simplify and enforce wired Ethernet and WiFi access control policies regardless of device, network, and authentication technology.

Benefits to the IT manager include:

• Industry standards – IEEE, IETF, Wi-Fi, TCG, Cisco Compatible Extensions
• Integrate Wired Ethernet & WiFI security
• Provision & enforce endpoint security policies
• Novell & Microsoft single sign-on (SSO)
• Enables group policies & VLAN attributes
• Enforces quarantine and remediation of noncompliant devices
• Delivery IT organizations exceptional planning & deployments