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Securing Wireless LANs
Wireless LANs provide much-appreciated flexibility for connectivity in conference rooms, lobbies, and throughout the enterprise. But the open nature of RF poses security concerns.
The key problems for securing wireless include:
- enabling authentication without requiring 802.1X throughout the enterprise
- providing authorization and accounting, beyond what authentication provides
- delivering differentiated services over common infrastructure
- deploying a single policy that can span wired and wireless
- ensuring strong security, regardless of AP design (e.g., whether a wireless LAN switch is a part of the architecture)
With ConSentry, you can implement network access control that straddles your wired and wireless networks, so you can rest easy that your wireless deployment is secured. The LANShield platforms let you:
- authenticate users regardless of whether switches support 802.1X
- differentiate between guest and employee users on the wireless LAN
- automatically apply identity-based control for user access, so guests get one set of permissions and employees can have full LAN access
- track what all users are doing on the LAN
- limit the servers or applications available to guests
Regardless of your wireless deployment, the ConSentry platform can drop in and provide crucial security features that don’t affect your LAN, your users’ behavior, or your IT staff’s operations.
ConSentry – Intelligent Switching
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