The new Safe Access®: Because NAC isn't black and white

The latest release of Safe Access includes eight new access options that allow you to meticulously control users and their endpoints. An improved device management interface streamlines administration and compliance activities.

Flexibility to control all devices and end users
Endpoint compliance—It's not yes or no, on or off. There's a gray area when it comes to controlling access for diverse categories of network users. How you control access for your senior executives is going to differ from how you control visitors, or how you control your road warriors, whose laptops are at a much higher risk for picking up something harmful.

The latest release of Safe Access delivers multiple access control options that give you the flexibility to handle all classes of devices and users. It makes the simple pass-fail approach to NAC obsolete. Click on the graphic at left to see this flexibility in action.

Maximum productivity without compromising security
The range of access control options in Safe Access ensures that productivity stays high. Your relatively safe domain users, your IT staff, and your senior executives can be guaranteed network access with our "whitelist with testing" and "innocent until proven guilty" control options. Yet Safe Access will thoroughly test their devices and sound the alarm if they've been compromised or test non-compliant with your security policy.

Fast, efficient administration of connected endpoints
Testing endpoints upon connection is just the beginning. In real time, Safe Access lets you dig deep on who is connected, who isn't, and why. The new device activity interface, shown below, and expansive search and filter capabilities let you quickly isolate individual device or groups of devices for targeted monitoring and direct action—such as changing access status, retesting, assessing trends and patterns. And Safe Access streamlines compliance analysis and forensics, putting all current endpoint activity and data for the last 30 days at your fingertips.

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Alan Shimel, StillSecure Chief Strategy Officer, and John Curry, Director of Customer Security, walk you through what's new in Safe Access and how the latest release will improve your security and productivity, while giving greater flexibility in managing access for your endusers.

Feature upgrades that existing Safe Access users will appreciate...

  • Safe Access now offers rogue endpoint detection capabilities built into policies that offer users more flexible wildcarding enhancements. For example, for company ABC, if all laptop NetBIOS names begin with abc_laptop, then abc_laptop* can be used as a match criterion for identifying employee laptops.

  • Also within access policies, a new notes section allows admins to indicate who an endpoint belongs to, why it was added to a particular NAC policy, when a consultant's endpoint should be removed from the policy, which Windows domains represent those for your organization, and similar useful information.

  • Quarantine/guest resources (formerly referred to as "Accessible services") has the increased functionality of either allowing or disallowing network resources. For quarantined/guest endpoints, you may select whether resources are to be accessible or inaccessible by default, and for each resource entered, you can select the accessibility of the resource. For example, you might specify that all resources are to be accessible except for specific internal servers that contain sensitive information.

  • Agentless testing performance has been enhanced. The required bandwidth for agent-less endpoint testing has decreased by as much as 700%. Performance improvement depends on the NAC policies used to test endpoints; however, in all cases, you will see significantly improved performance after upgrading to this release.