The Challenge

Business in the 21st century requires accessing, organizing, and disseminating information across the enterprise quicker and more cost effectively than the competition. The economic factors forcing this change – global competition, customer expectations, and regulatory mandates – are also forcing the enterprise to evolve into a virtual, interconnected value chain of partners, suppliers, distributors, and customers. This ability to efficiently share and integrate data across the value chain raises the importance of the underlying enterprise network. As CIOs work to deliver access anytime, anywhere to members of the extended value chain, their networks become increasingly vulnerable to attack by serious hackers and recreational rogues as well as employees and unmanaged users.

The Solution

Quantiq International provides a solution that delivers the three key elements of effective network access control – identity management, endpoint compliance, and usage policy enforcement – as an integrated, appliance-based solution. Its out-of-band architecture leverages the existing network infrastructure to deliver automated security services without costly equipment upgrades or performance bottlenecks.

Our solution also automatically identifies authorized users and registered devices and verifies device compliance before granting network access. If the user’s system is noncompliant, it provides self-remediation options so the user can update their system themselves. Its continuously enforces security policies, records detailed historical network activity, and generates reports for security threat analysis and regulatory compliance.