Best NAC for higher ed - Safe-Connect

Impulse Point Safe•Connect

The Safe•Connect™ network access control (NAC) solution provides endpoint security policy enforcement for large, diverse environments with myriad personally‐owned, non‐managed, mobile computing devices. Its ease of installation and scaling, network independence and track record of reducing help desk calls contribute to lower total cost of ownership and reduced risk.

Users that will reap the most benefit:

Higher education, K-12 school districts and multi-location enterprises with a diverse set of users and unmanaged devices (BYOD) logging into multiple layers of access privileges.

In the VistaOne portfolio because:

Impulse Point demonstrated to us that NAC can be simpler and faster with a lower total cost of operation. The company has a solid reputation, profitable history and growing market share. Plus, they have the best managed service/maintenance program in the NAC world.

Safe-Connect handles multiple logins from multiple devices

VistaOne added the Safe•Connect product to our portfolio for two reasons. One, network access control, or NAC, was a source of irritation for some of our customers in higher education. We looked into it and found a better, faster, cheaper to operate NAC that solved their issues.

Two, the vendor we found is actively integrating their product with leading traffic shapers (thus expanding our richest area of expertise). The marriage means you can control not only what individual users can access, but how much in the way of resources they can consume with what applications and devices.

Safe•Connect uses an “open NAC” approach that works independently within your existing architecture, automating and enforcing endpoint security policies without effecting WAN operations.

Installs easily

Hours, not days
Existing multi-vendor network, no changes
No continuous manipulation of network switches
Agentless, lightweight software client
Pre-configured policies on authentication, anti-malware, patches, peer-to-peer plus custom

Operates independently

True out-of-line network integration design

No single-point-of-failure
No performance bottlenecks or added latency
No maintenance-driven network availability outages
No network intensive vulnerability scanning

Switch-independent isolation/Layer2 quarantine technology (I-LAN)
Consistent function across wired, wireless, and VPN networks
Problem determination and resolution
Personalized automated remediation guidance
Provides continuous real-time policy assessment and enforcement

Scales intelligently

Single Policy Enforcer appliance manages network access policies for more than 10,000 endpoint devices
Multiple additional Policy Enforcers added in daisy-chain fashion
Entire system is managed centrally through the Safe•Connect Policy Management Console
Plug-and-play connection of remote branches for centralized management of access policies

Act now to replace your existing NAC solution with Safe•Connect by January 31, 2012 and get the remaining balance of the annual maintenance on your old system PLUS an additional year of Impulse Point's managed service maintenance no extra charge.

Delivers real time information

Policy Management Console displays real-time status reporting
Provides valuable insight into group or individual policy compliance
Help desk can immediately view the security posture and login status of any device on the network by searching IP, MAC address, or user name
Provides granular historical data for trend analysis, compliance auditing and archiving

Offers the best support in the NAC world

Fully managed service (monitoring, support, and maintenance)
Implementation planning and server pre‐load and testing
Standard remote installation assistance and training
First Year Impulse Managed Support Services:

Remote policy enforcer appliance monitoring
Appliance hardware maintenance
Installation of all software maintenance
Remote disaster recovery daily backups

Updates within 48 hours for the most current device types, operating systems, anti‐virus and other endpoint security software

Professional Services	Evaluations	Training
Baseline Analysis	Exinda	Overview
Maintenance Services	Procera	Riverbed
Solution Configuration	Riverbed	Procera
Request Services	Palo Alto Networks	Scheduled Classes

Exinda shaping, acceleration	Riverbed global performance
F5 Networks app delivery control	SuperLumin social media cache
Impulse Point non-obtrusive NAC	Vineyard Networks DPI/reporting
Procera EDU/ISP traffic shaping	Circadence medical image delivery

Your network access control (NAC) solution shouldn’t cause more problems than it solves.