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ConSentry Customers

ConSentry customers include medium and large enterprises, education institutions, carriers, and regulated utilities. The list below is a sample of some of the customers using ConSentry to deploy intelligent control of users and applications.

 

Profile

An arm of the University of North Carolina, Fayetteville State University (FSU) is the second-oldest public institution of higher education in the state. Founded in 1867, FSU today serves some 6,300 students with 2,000 faculty and staff. www.uncfsu.edu

Industry

Higher Education

Challenge

Segmenting students, staff, and faculty and assessing endpoint health

Solution

ConSentry LANShield Controllers in the administrative building and LANShield Switches with the dissolvable agent in the dorms for full network access control and user visibility.

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Mineola Union Free School District is a K-12 school system located in Nassau County, New York on Long Island. The district consists of five elementary schools, a middle school, and a high school. www.mineola.k12.ny.us

Industry

K-12 Education

Challenge

Mineola School District needed to protect confidentiality of internal resources from unauthorized access and block specific websites campus-wide. In addition, compliance with new regulations such as FERPA (Family and Educational Rights and Privacy Act) and CALEA (Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act) called for more internal controls.

Solution

The Alcatel-Lucent OmniAccess Safeguard (powered by ConSentry Networks technology) enabled network admission control (NAC), guest access, and identity-based network access control. Since it is an overlay solution, OmniAccess SafeGuard causes minimal disruption and modification of existing infrastructure.

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The Mount Pleasant Independent School District is a K-12 school system located in Titus County, Texas that encompasses about 5,000 students and 900 employees spread across eight sites. www.mpisd.net

Industry

K-12 Education

Challenge

MPISD needed network access control to separate student and teacher access on the LAN and to monitor and control how network resources were used.

Solution

The ConSentry LANShield platform enables identity-based control of users and applications in a single platform. 

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The Council of the public schools of the East of Ontario (CEPEO) serves more than 11 000 pupils in 36 elementary schools, secondary and centers of education for adults. www.cepeo.on.ca

Industry

K-12 Education

Challenge

CEPEO needed differentiated network access control for students versus faculty.

Solution

The ConSentry LANShield platform enables role-based provisioning so CEPEO can provide differentiated network access for faculty versus students.

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Profile

As the second largest electric cooperative in Texas, CoServ Electric provides services to more than 100,000 residential, commercial and industrial members in parts of Denton, Collin, Tarrant, Wise, Cooke, and Grayson counties. www.coserv.com

Industry

Energy/Utilities

Challenge

CoServ needed to ensure that unauthorized personnel would not be able to access the LAN.

Solution

The ConSentry LANShield platform enables network access control and secure guest access without any changes to CoServ's existing LAN infrastructure.

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The United Illuminating Company was formed in 1899 when the Bridgeport Electric Company merged with the New Haven Electric Company. UI is a regional distribution utility providing electricity and energy-related services to more than 320,000 customers in the Greater New Haven and Greater Bridgeport areas. www.uinet.com

Industry

Energy/Utilities

Challenge

United Illuminating needed to provide guests with access to the Internet without jeapordizing the company's information systems.

Solution

ConSentry intelligent control enables role-based provisioning so UI can provide differentiated access controls for employees versus guests. Guests get access to the Internet only.

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Alliance Imaging is the nation’s leading provider of diagnostic medical imaging services. Alliance partners with hospitals and healthcare providers for Fixed Site Imaging Centers, Shared Mobile Services, and cancer services with a focus on Radiation Therapy.  www.allianceimaging.com

Industry

Healthcare

Challenge

A need to maintain security across disparate hospital networks, with full tracking and logging for auditing purposes.

Solution

ConSentry LANShield Controller in main facilities and LANShield Switch in remote locations for full network access control.

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Profile

Bosley Medical Group is a world leader in hair loss and medical hair restoration, having performed almost 200,000 hair transplant procedures on men and women from 60 different nations who suffered from hair loss and progressive baldness. Bosley

Industry

Healthcare.

Challenge

Bosley needed to limit access to sensitive resources on the LAN. The company also had contractors routinely coming onto the LAN having used their systems outside the corporate network, leaving the company vulnerable to malware.

Solution

The LANShield platforms provide role-based network access control and works transparently in this heterogeneous switch environment.

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Profile

Mercy Medical Center is a thriving hospital in Baltimore MD, recognized nationally for its quality patient care, state-of-the-art facilities, and outstanding medical staff.  www.mdmercy.com

Industry

Healthcare

Challenge

Mercy needed to keep traffic from doctors, nurses, administrative staff, and visitors separate and provide network access control for each user group.

Solution

ConSentry LANShield controls who is able to access the LAN, and identity-based controls limit access to resources throughout the medical resources.

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Omneon Video Networks is the le ading provider of cost-effective and flexible networked media servers for broadcast and video. www.omneon.com

Industry

High Technology

Challenge

Omneon needed to host guests and partners on their network without jeapordizing their corporate intellectual property.

Solution

The ConSentry LANShield Controller enables the company to control access to the network without making any changes to its LAN, switches, or endpoints.

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Profile

Telefónica is a world leader in the telecommunication sector, with presence in Europe, Africa, and Latin America. www.telefonica.com

Industry

Service Provider

Challenge

Telefonica wanted to offer secure LAN services to its customers with a platform that could be integrated into any network infrastructure.

Solution

The ConSentry LANShield Controller enables Telefonica to quickly roll out differentiated network access controls on clients' networks without disruption.

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Santander is the largest bank in the Euro Zone by market capitalization and one of the largest worldwide. Founded in 1857, Santander has 809,000 million euros in assets and 961,000 million euros in managed funds, over 66 million customers, 129,000 employees, 10,200 offices and a presence in 40 countries.  www.gruposantander.com

Industry

Financial Services/Banking

Challenges

The company needed to establish granular controls over which users could reach which resources and applications.

Solution

ConSentry’s LANShield platform, delivered through a managed LAN service by Telefonica, provides role-based control, providing employees, contractors, and guests with access to only those servers and applications they need to do their job.

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Profile

Texas Credit Union League is the official state trade association serving credit unions in Texas. www.tcul.coop

Industry

Financial Services/Banking

Challenges

The TCUL had no way to control access on the LAN, and they wanted to match the level of “external” security they had deployed within the LAN itself.

Solution

ConSentry provides a simple, cost-effective way for the TCUL to implement network access control and limit who can come onto the LAN and what users can do on the LAN.

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Profile

Established in 1972, Town North Bank is one of the largest independent banks in North Dallas, Texas. www.tnboline.com

Industry

Financial Services/Banking

Challenges

The Town North Bank needed a cost-effective way to limit user access to customer records in support of PCI compliance.

Solution

ConSentry's LANShield platforms enable the bank to implement role-based controls that follow the user, instead of being tied to a LAN port. The bank was able to meet PCI's demands without the complexity of implementing VLANs and ACLs.

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Profile

The Las Vegas Review-Journal is the largest daily newspaper in the state of Nevada with a daily circulation of more than 160,000 and a Sunday circulation of more than 224,000. www.lvrj.com

Industry

Media/Publishing

Challenges

The media company needed to support a roaming user community and provide differentiated access rights for various employee groups.

Solution

ConSentry’s LANShield Controllers and LANShield Switches enable LVRJ to employ role-based policies that follow the reporters and sales reps, so users can reach only the applications and resources needed for their job responsibilities, regardless of their location.

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Analyst Quotes
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"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
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"The ConSentry Secure LAN 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."
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