Get NAC built into your switch
Free resources to help you get NAC built into your switch
Intelligent switching provides the platform to get significant user and application control built directly into the access layer. Network access control, with its focus on controlling who can come onto the LAN and what users can do after they’re on the LAN, is a natural extension of those control features.
Switch Upgrade Checklist
This checklist can help you evaluate switches to ensure you’re getting a broad set of control capabilities. You can download a PDF of the list, or you can download it as an Excel worksheet to help you compare different products. Download Switch Upgrade Checklist
How Business Demands are Changing LAN Switches
In this paper, noted industry analyst Jim Metzler relays the findings from a series of interviews he conducted with IT directors around the globe. The paper discusses the business challenges these enterprises face, how those challenges have in turn created new demands on the LAN, and what capabilities these IT staff are looking for their LAN equipment to provide. Metzler concludes the paper with the set of features these enterprises have defined as key for them to meet their technical and business requirements.
Before your next switch upgrade, be sure to read this insightful analysis from Jim Metzler. Download whitepaper
ConSentry LANShield Switches with Integrated NAC and more
ConSentry LANShield Intelligent switches deliver NAC plus complete user and application control, right in the wiring closet.
LANShield switches authenticate users and devices against standard identity stores and automatically learns their roles. Then for each traffic flow, it identifies the application in use, applies policies based on role, and fully tracks all activities. This intelligence and business context dramatically simplifies IT’s tasks.
So now supporting that dynamic and diverse workforce is easy because you no longer need to create and maintain complex ACLs and VLANs. Rolling out new services is simpler because you don’t need to separate traffic onto different VLANs and configure QoS policies.
And incident response and troubleshooting is faster and easier – instead of combing through logs of IP addresses and Layer 4 ports, you get a complete and consolidated view of who’s doing what on the LAN, with username, role, application, and server all tied together.
So at your next switch upgrade cycle, you can spend less than you probably would for those standard switches and step up to ConSentry's intelligent switching. You'll get the user and application control you need to make your life easier, your network smarter, and your business more competitive. Learn more about LANShield Intelligent Switches
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