Bradford Networks, an award-winning provider of comprehensive
network access control (NAC) solutions, announced today that the
Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology (SIT) has
selected NAC Director to protect its enterprise network because of its
role-based access control for wired, wireless, and virtual private
network (VPN) connections.
NAC Director was the product of choice for SIT, the security arm
of Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Europe´s largest applied research
institute, because of its ability to effectively control the wide
range of different types of users across the 56 Fraunhofer Institutes
in Germany. SIT, headquartered in Darmstadt, reviews, integrates, and
manages security with broad expertise in radio-frequency
identification (RFID), public key infrastructure (PKI), smartcards,
biometrics, and other technologies.
In addition, NAC Director was selected for the flexibility from
use of both persistent and non-persistent agents, its wide hardware
and software support, and powerful endpoint compliance tools.
"We have to differentiate between employees at our own institute,
employees from different institutes, project partners, or guests. Each
has its own authorization, regardless of whether access within the
institute, via wireless access, a network outlet, or from a VPN
connection," said Michael Epah, Fraunhofer, SIT Project Manager. "It
was of particular importance that the solution supports the deployment
of digital user certificates of our PKI across wireless, wired, and
VPN LANs. Bradford was the only product that met all of our selection
criteria."
Additionally Fraunhofer SIT and Bradford plan to cooperate on
product development, with Fraunhofer employees serving as advisors to
Bradford on future NAC capabilities.
"The Fraunhofer Institute is one of the world´s leading security
experts. Their selection of Bradford is a tremendous acknowledgement
of the comprehensive and flexible design of our out-of-band
architecture," said Mike Gadoury, Bradford Networks founder and CEO.
Bradford Networks has pioneered advanced NAC solutions since 2002
and helps solve network access control challenges facing education,
healthcare, financial services, government and other organizations by
securing wired, wireless, and VPN networks.
About Bradford Networks
Bradford Networks develops advanced network access control
solutions for wireless, wired and VPN networks. In use around the
globe, Bradford´s award-winning, out-of-band appliances leverage
existing network infrastructure to automatically enforce NAC policy at
the network edge making networks more secure and efficient. Privately
held, Bradford Networks is located in Concord, NH. For more
information, call (603) 228-5300 or visit www.bradfordnetworks.com.
About Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology
The Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology (SIT)
in Darmstadt is one of the pioneers of computer-based cooperation and
IT security in Europe. It researches and develops together with
partners from science, industry and users ahead of international
competition to ensure the trustworthiness of information and the
reliability of IT infrastructures. Only then, it is possible that
communication, electronic business transactions and global
co-operation are successfully spread across the Internet. The
Institute is a member of the Fraunhofer group for Information and
Communication Technology (ICT). It offers a comprehensive program of
conferences, seminars and specialist presentations to impart its
research and development results to experts and users.
