Press Release
TEXAS CREDIT UNION LEAGUE CHOOSES CONSENTRY NETWORKS TO CONTROL ACCESS ACROSS EVERY PORT ON THE LAN
Official State Trade Association Deploys LANShield Platform to Provide Identity-based Access Control
Milpitas, CA – March 13, 2007 – ConSentry Networks, a leading provider of secure LAN solutions, announced today that the Texas Credit Union League (TCUL) has deployed the ConSentry LANShield™ Controller and InSight™ Command Center to enable identity-based access control across the LAN. The need for simple authentication, a flexible security system, and a cost-effective solution drove the league to select ConSentry over several competing architectures and solutions.
The Texas Credit Union League is an official state trade association serving credit unions in Texas. The TCUL’s mission is to protect credit unions while promoting their growth, strength, and unity. TCUL represents more than 600 credit unions throughout Texas. The league’s network is the backbone of communications to its members, suppliers, and partners. Because of the variety of users and organizations accessing resources over a common infrastructure, identity-based control was the leading requirement in securing access on the LAN.
“A lot of NAC vendors focus on posture check and remediation,” said Bill Braun, vice president, information systems for the Texas Credit Union League. “That’s not what we were interested in. We needed port-level access control, based on the user’s role within the organization.”
The TCUL considered other alternatives, including 802.1X for authentication and competing NAC approaches. Getting the 802.1X client software to interoperate with switches proved too complicated, and other NAC approaches lacked the ability to control users after they were allowed onto the LAN.
The ConSentry platform provides four key functions: network admission control, visibility, identity-based control, and threat control.
“ConSentry’s passive authentication is a huge benefit,” said Braun, referring to the LANShield’s ability to leverage the user’s existing network login to authenticate the user to the LAN. He’s also using the visibility – all traffic up through Layer 7, resolved back to the username – to learn what’s happening on the LAN.
“Since we installed the ConSentry controller and the InSight Command Center, we have been able to better understand how people are using the network,” said Braun. “For example, we can now look at application flows by user. It’s the number one feature for me – I can see what everyone’s doing, and I’m using that reporting to figure out how to build the right policies.”
“Texas Credit Union League’s experience is similar to what many of our financial customers find,” observed Tom Barsi, president and CEO for ConSentry. “The ability to monitor and control individual users and applications in a single platform is fundamental to compliance and LAN security best practices.”
About ConSentry Networks
ConSentry Networks delivers Control without Compromise with its family of award-winning LANShield platforms - the LANShield™ Controller and LANShield Switch. ConSentry enables businesses to protect their corporate assets, ensure continuity of operations, and dramatically reduce the risk of security breaches. ConSentry's LANShield platforms and InSight™ Command Center provide network admission control, visibility, identity-based control, and threat control. This combination of pre- and post-admission controls provides enterprises with a simple, proven, and affordable means of integrating security into their LAN infrastructure and controlling access to business resources and applications. Backed by blue-chip venture capital firms that include Accel Partners, DAG Ventures, INVESCO Private Capital, and Sequoia Capital, ConSentry is headquartered in Milpitas, California.
About Texas Credit Union League
The Texas Credit Union League is the official state trade association serving credit unions in Texas. Organized in 1934, the Texas Credit Union League provides credit unions with valuable resources, products, services and programs to meet present and future challenges. The League provides education and training, advocate activities, regulatory/compliance assistance, technical assistance, research and new product development, marketing ideas, and public relations resources.
Credit unions are not-for-profit, member-owned, volunteer-directed cooperatives that promote the economic well being of all people, including those of modest means. The Texas Credit Union League represents more than 600 of the state's credit unions - which in turn are owned by over 7 million members. For more information, visit www.tcul.coop.
ConSentry Networks, the ConSentry Networks logo, LANShield, and Control without Compromise are trademarks of ConSentry Networks Inc., for use in the United States and other countries. All other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective holders. product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective holders.
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