Novell ZENworks Network Access Control

Safe and secure access for guests

Now you can finally keep track of, and secure, all the guests connecting to your network. Unauthorized guests in sensitive areas, such as your production environment, can mean a security and compliance disaster. With Novell ZENworks Network Access Control, you can ensure guest stay where they should.

As guests connect, ZENworks Network Access Control can immediately limit their access to sensitive areas, for example, an "Internet-only" segment. Once there, ZENworks Network Access Control can test the guest for compliance with basic security requirements. If a certain class of guest, such as a contractor, needs access to additional network resources, you can create compliance policies to allow that.

Guest-specific policies

Guests require special access policies, and Novell ZENworks Network Access Control provides that. Chances are, guests aren't going to let you install a permanent agent on their machines, but you can test their machines non-intrusively using the ZENworks Network Access Control browser-based testing method. For instance, you can't require that they have a specific AV package, but you can verify that they at least have some kind of AV running and that it's up to date. In short, you can create specific access policies for the various categories of guests moving on and off your network. Novell ZENworks Network Access Control automatically recognizes guest devices and places them into a guest VLAN, subnet or quarantine, ensuring they can't harm your network. It will also detect any unauthorized network bridges and deny access to devices attempting to connect through them, stopping problems before they occur.