Avenda Systems Announces New Security Enhancements for Endpoint Control in 802.1X and Non-802.1X Environments

10/12/2010

New features offer greater visibility and control of Windows and Mac OS X devices accessing the network, and deliver enhanced support for Meru and Cisco networking devices

Avenda Systems, the innovation leader in network access security, today announced Avenda OnGuard, a new family of network access agents, as well as enhanced support of External Captive Portals for Meru wireless controllers and Cisco switches.

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These new enhancements position Avenda’s flagship eTIPS network access control and AAA platform as the industry’s most feature-rich solution for managing access privileges across early and current Windows versions, Mac OS X, and Linux operating systems using standards-based, 802.1X or non-802.1X security methods.

Deployed in conjunction with eTIPS 3.5, Avenda’s OnGuard agents enable organizations to proactively manage the use of peer-to-peer applications and services on their networks and send system wide, network notifications to its users. For example, users can be notified of digital rights management (DRM) violations and associated corrective action. Additionally, users can be removed or bounced from the network, or blacklisted if they are not in compliance with an organization’s standard policy requirements. The health status of devices – such as anti-malware, firewall, peer-to-peer and the latest patches – can also be used to create a deeper level of compliance policies.

“Avenda’s new OnGuard agents provide a seamless way to monitor user and device information while taking advantage of legacy security mechanisms,” said John Call, Systems and Network analyst at BYU– Hawaii. “I can see how the additional visibility and safeguards would benefit education and enterprise organizations alike – for not only security, but also for network troubleshooting and compliance mandates as well.”

New support of external captive portals for Meru wireless controllers and Cisco Ethernet switches enables organizations to offload web-based authentication to Avenda’s eTIPS and add endpoint health checking that the Meru and Cisco devices cannot perform on their own. This enables the use of external laptops by guests, partners, contractors and employees by authenticating devices against specific access policies created for users’ roles.

“Avenda’s latest release allows us to continue our technical leadership by enhancing our overall solution based on customer feedback and evolving industry requirements,” said Santhosh Cheeniyil, VP of Engineering at Avenda Systems. “With the introduction of eTIPS 3.5, these new applications and additional platform enhancements provide the industry’s only full-featured network access security platform for any use-case, any environment.”

Highlights of Avenda’s new release include the following industry firsts:

• Ability to apply consistent network access security and endpoint health checks in a mix of 802.1X and non-802.1X (SNMP and SSH) environments
• Greater visibility and control across all operating system versions – agent and agentless alternatives
• Enhanced compliance management of Peer-to-Peer applications, services and anti-malware

Availability

The new OnGuard agents, external captive portal support, and Avenda’s eTIPS 3.5 release will be available directly from Avenda and authorized partners in early November.

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