Customer, Analyst, and Media Quotes
Customer | Analyst | Media
Customer Quotes
"ConSentry has helped us bring more discipline to the LAN, with controls in place that guarantee that only authorised users are admitted. Acute transparency into user activity provides very clear forensics to ensure traffic is moving legitimately and adds another layer of security to our LAN.”
John White, IT Manager for UK and Asia, Technicolor
"Other vendors cannot come close to the total solution that ConSentry’s Intelligent Switching provides. The value add of having a solution that is fully integrated into one platform with one company is key, unlike the multiple solutions from other vendors that must be integrated through external efforts.”
Lou
Owayni, Global Network and Telecom Manager, Adaptec
"ConSentry addresses the challenges of managing today’s collaborative environments by ensuring only certain users can reach the applications and servers. ConSentry was quick to provide product evaluation and technical support for our environment. Once we evaluated the LANShield Switch platform, it was an easy purchase decision.”
John Demcher , Network and Data Security Manager, Beryl Healthcare
“As soon as we deployed the ConSentry LANShield, it proved its value by giving us the ability to troubleshoot a critical performance issue within the branch office network. By using ConSentry’s reporting functionality, we were immediately able to view and identify user actions that were causing drains on bandwidth and act accordingly.”
Daryl Flack , Head of IT Services, On Demand Group
"When we got the ConSentry demo gear and saw how it performs, we were sold on it. And having all that security available in a switch allowed us to blanket our campus and put controls right next to the users. It was a much stronger security architecture for our needs.”
Payman
Damghani, Network Security Analyst, Fayetteville State University
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Analyst Quotes
"The integration of security into switching takes me back about fifteen years ago when LAN probes first appeared for monitoring traffic on Ethernet networks. Very quickly, the technology in these independent probes became an integrated component of Ethernet switches. I see the same pattern being repeated with today’s security appliances. We need more intelligence and control in our networks today, and it makes sense to be able to integrate that additional functionality into the Ethernet switch."
Lawrence Orans, Research Director, Gartner
"One viable option for implementing a Network Access Control [NAC] process is to have an in-line device that piggybacks on a switch on your network. The first rule for any in-line device is to “do no harm”, and therefore they must be wirespeed with very low latency. One advantage of this option is that detection and enforcement are in a single in-line platform, as opposed to an out-of-band detection mechanism that must send ACLs to a switch or router device [ACL pushing]. Gartner research has shown that ACL pushing or automatic firewall reconfiguration is not widely embraced, as the rule management quickly gets out of control.”
John Pescatore, Vice President and Distinguished Analyst,
Gartner Group
“Switching has become commoditized, but integrated security and switching changes the playing field significantly.”
Dave Passmore, Vice President, Burton Group
“Secure networking solutions for enterprise LANs must meet three absolute requirements. First, there must be sufficient processing power to perform continuous, real-time traffic monitoring on a per-user basis across Layers 2-7 coupled with the ability to forward packets at multi-gigabit throughput rates. Second, the solution must be simple to deploy and provide Concise, useful reporting in order to justify pervasive deployment. And third, there has to be an affordable price-per-user and price-per-port cost basis. ConSentry offers An innovative solution that addresses these requirements with finesse.”
Joel Conover, Principal Analyst, Current Analysis
“The traditional notion of putting network security at just the perimeter, the border between the Internet and the private network doesn’t really hold up anymore. You can provide a certain level of security by putting firewalls and IDPs at the border point but it doesn’t really help you understand what’s going on behind the border and secure all those connections that could be coming in from inside the network. There needs to be something new added into the network to secure the interior of the network just as well as you secure the border between inside and outside.”
Jeff Wilson, Principal Analyst, VPNs and Security, Infonetics Research
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Media Quotes
"The ConSentry LANShield Controller is a terrific piece of hardware backed by a good management platform. As long as all of your user traffic passes through the controller, policy enforcement is rock solid. It won’t, however, help out in local workgroup situations, so plan your deployment accordingly and ConSentry will handle the rest. But for true real-time visibility into network traffic, the LANShield Controller can’t be beat."
InfoWorld Magazine - November 2005
"While still in its infancy, the ConSentry LANShield is a purpose-built appliance that leverages FPGAs (Field-Programmable Gate Arrays), as many as two dozen fiber or copper ports that can support inline bridge or mirror modes, and a "128 core" processor MIPS architecture. Put another way, the unit has serious CPU horsepower. "
Network Computing Magazine - November 2005
"The CS2400 and InSight do a great job tracking users and their network activity, enabling role-based networking and preventing the spread of malware. I look forward to the next release, which promises hooks into third-party host compliance agents, antivirus scanning, more granular policies for users and possible spyware support."
Network Computing Magazine - October 2005
"It’s very rare to see a security device as easy to use as the LANShield Controller. Setup is plug-and-play simple, while the unit’s browser-based interface, aptly called Insight, provides an intuitive launching point into the controller’s capabilities.
Administrators can monitor all activity in realtime and then drill down further to the most minute details about an individual user session. Policy control allows automated actions to take place and proves quite powerful when one considers the requirements of HIPAA and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act."
CRN Magazine - September 2005
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