Network Access Control

Malware have evolved to the stage where it has become smarter and more effective at compromising networks, consequently posing a larger threat towards corporate infrastructure.

No matter how secure your network is, whether by following security best practices, organizations must realise the fact that there is always a chance of a vulnerable or misconfigured host which can simply be connected to the network causing a threat to disruption of critical business activities.

Gateway and desktop security solutions only protect the managed zones, but what about the possible malicious ‘hosts' such as laptops from remote employees, guests or contractors which remain unmanaged?

By having a NAC solution in place, it ensures hosts connected to your corporate network are secured and appropriately configured to comply with corporate policies. These policies are strictly enforced to safeguard the network by specifying user access right, their patch level and whether they have suitable security solutions installed, such as anti-virus or desktop firewall and are running the latest updates. Hosts that do not conform to the policies may be allocated to an isolated guest segment or receive restricted access to network resources.