No one knows the challenges of network security better than IT professionals charged with the daunting task of protecting a campus network. Administrators must balance providing an open collaborative network with protecting this exposed infrastructure from malware, unauthorized or high risk applications (such as P2P) and myriad IP-enabled rogue devices. Deploying Mirage NAC on your network will:

• Help your organization conform to compliance mandates such as PCI, HIPAA, FERPA
• Govern P2P file sharing applications and satisfy RIAA/MPAA requests
• Manage open network risk by ensuring endpoint compliance and associating a user ID with every endpoint
• Detect and isolate unauthorized servers, routers and WAPs
• Detect and contain malware, including zero-day threats - botnets, keyloggers, trojans, worms, and viruses are isolated before they propagate
• Detect and manage new IP-enabled devices such as iPhones, smart phones, TiVos, Slingboxes, and more

Education Success Stories: Mirage Campus Use Cases

Education Benefits: NAC Payback Series; Network Access Control for University Networks

In the world of healthcare IT, network security is more critical than it has ever been, with IP-enabled monitoring equipment, workstations in operating rooms and emergency rooms, and all-digital medical records. Healthcare organizations also deal with confidential patient information policies and procedures mandated by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) regulations. In addition, healthcare providers have the challenge of managing a mixed network infrastructure with increasing numbers of mobile devices like tablets and smart phones, as well as point-of-care devices running on embedded operating systems. Also, many healthcare organizations have traveling medical staff, salespeople and other visitors connecting guest laptops to the network.

Mirage NAC stops infected or out-of-policy devices from devastating mission critical networks. Deploying Mirage NAC on your network will:

• Ensure availability of critical IP-enabled healthcare equipment
• Meet HIPAA compliance requirements
• Provide guest network access without exposing the corporate network
• Manage open network risk by ensuring endpoint compliance and associating a user ID with every endpoint
• Detect and contain malware, including zero-day threats - botnets, keyloggers, trojans, worms, and viruses are isolated before they propagate

Healthcare Success Stories: Mount Sinai Hospital; Health Access Solutions

Government agencies and other public institutions often face the highest security standards with the fewest resources to meet those standards. Whether it’s federal security agencies, emergency services organizations, or mass transit systems, network breaches can result in disastrous situations. Mirage’s government customers are often faced with the most stringent requirements for protecting against data breaches. Our customers are deploying Mirage NAC to meet all of these challenges, allowing their networks to thrive while reducing the exposure to threats and ensuring critical services remain available. Deploying Mirage NAC on your network will:

• Protect the network against data breaches
• Ensure that critical network-reliant services are always available
• Give you the highest level of network security by ensuring endpoint compliance and associating a user ID with every endpoint
• Provide guest and contractor network access without exposing the corporate network
• Detect and contain malware, including zero-day threats - botnets, keyloggers, trojans, worms, and viruses are isolated before they propagate

Government Customers: New York City Transit Authority; Massachusetts State Department

All enterprises strive to defend their networks from threats, policy violations and unauthorized access to sensitive data. But as threats have evolved, traditional security measures are losing ground. As focus moves from the perimeter of the network to the interior, more and more enterprises are deploying NAC as a key component of the network security strategy. These organizations require products that are mature, flexible and easy to deploy.

Mobility, an increasingly fluid workforce, and the proliferation of IP-enabled devices all contribute to the challenge of protecting the network while allowing business to thrive. Mirage’s large enterprise customers are enjoying the highest level of network security and freeing up resources for critical projects. Deploying Mirage NAC on your network will:

• Ensure the mobile endpoints connecting to your network are compliant with company policies
• Provide guest and contractor network access without exposing the corporate network
• Protect vulnerable wireless networks
• Give a complete profile of every endpoint on the network
• Provide full protection for remote offices
• Empower you to meet compliance mandates such as PCI, Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, and GLBA
• Detect and contain malware, including zero-day threats - botnets, keyloggers, trojans, worms, and viruses are isolated before they propagate

Enterprise Customers: National Instruments, Rich Products, Silverstein Properties

With the rapid increase in identity theft incidents worldwide, companies in the financial services industry are under greater pressure to protect the integrity of customers’ financial information. Regulations such as GLBA and the PCI Data Security Standard require organizations to take all necessary precautions to safeguard this information, which often results in a resource drain on the IT staff. Mirage’s financial services customers are also highly sensitive to network downtime because even brief outages that interfere with business can cause millions of dollars in losses. Deploying Mirage NAC on your network will:

• Protect the network from data breaches by controlling access to resources based on identity, endpoint compliance and endpoint behavior
• Control access to sensitive data with a centralized identity and access management solution
• Provide guest and contractor network access without exposing the corporate network
• Empower you to meet compliance mandates such as PCI, Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, and GLBA
• Detect and contain malware, including zero-day threats - botnets, keyloggers, trojans, worms, and viruses are isolated before they propagate

Financial Services Success Stories: First National Bank of America; Alpha Bank and Trust

Mirage customers in these industries face similar challenges in protecting the network – large numbers of unmanaged endpoints, harsh environmental conditions, and a directive to protect productivity with maximum network uptime. If the IP networks of these organizations are compromised it can result in critical infrastructure breakdowns – and have a direct, negative impact on the lives of people who rely on their services. Deploying Mirage NAC on your network will:

• Provide a NAC solution that works in harsh environmental conditions
• Provide complete protection for all endpoints – managed and unmanaged
• Ensure maximum uptime of networks with Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) devices and all other unmanaged endpoints
• Provide guest and contractor network access without exposing the corporate network
• Detect and contain malware, including zero-day threats - botnets, keyloggers, trojans, worms, and viruses are isolated before they propagate

Power, Utility & Energy success stories: Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association; Southern California Water District