Bradford Networks Announces Webinar on Network Access Control

 

The live event will take place on Tuesday, June 15 from 11am to noon Eastern. Shawn Nutting, director of technology at Trussville City Schools, will conduct the Webinar. All attendees will be eligible for a special promotional offer from Bradford Networks, company officials said.

 

Bradford's adaptive network security platform fortifies networks and leverages features from the existing infrastructure to dynamically enforce policies across both wired and wireless networks.

 

Trussville City Schools set out to keep non-Trussville assets off its production network using its traditional Network Access Control or "NAC" vendor.

 

But Trussville City Schools required more than NAC. "It wasn't just a matter of blocking non-Trussville assets, as they found out when their NAC tool blocked devices such as printers and cafeteria cash registers," officials at Trussville City Schools said.

 

The District wanted more finesse, and the ability to offer students open yet controlled network access, rather than a typical 'lock and block,' they added.

 

The IT team at Trussville City Schools then turned to Bradford Networks, which offers an adaptive network security platform that goes beyond traditional NAC. Bradford solutions uniquely identify and profile every device and every user to provide complete visibility and control.

 

Bradford Networks has enabled Trussville City Schools to: limit access to its wired network to Trussville devices only; create a self-service imaging process for Trussville assets that go out of compliance; create device profiles and intelligently apply access rules based on those profiles; and provide open yet controlled and secure wireless Internet access for students.

 

Headquartered in Concord, Bradford secures critical IT assets and automates security operations of customers and users worldwide. The ANS (News - Alert) Webinar Series is another key element in the company's commitment to providing a network security platform that dynamically adapts to the rapidly changing security landscape, company officials said.

 

Earlier in June Bradford Networks announced it has added three new senior executives to its management team: Joe Celia has joined as vice president of sales, Americas; Gary Mead has joined as vice president, EMEA and David Yachnin has joined as vice president of business development.