Network Access Control
Why 3Com,
Innovative 3Com® security solutions deliver the comprehensive coverage, high performance and flexible deployment that government agencies require to protect network services and the people who use them.
Between July and September 2006, U.S. government agencies reported 338 separate security incidents involving personal information. These incidents were not the result of cyber attacks. Rather, they were cases of data being lost or otherwise compromised due to ineffective security measures.
Guarding the Gate
Since the enterprise network touches virtually all the organization’s data, controlling access to the network and its resources has to be a critical part of any agency’s security plan. To pass a rigorous security audit such as those conducted by the Inspector General’s office, an agency should have network access technology and policies in place that determine:
- Who can gain access
- When and where they may establish a connection
- Which data they can see and download
- What applications they are permitted to use
VPN Tunnels and Embedded Firewalls
3Com offers powerful virtual private network
(VPN) protection that ensures the confidentiality of the communications that pass between agencies, vendors and remote users. VPN technology creates encrypted “tunnels” that let the organization leverage the public communications infrastructure while insulating the data from unauthorized access. To deter improper access within the organization, innovative 3Com Embedded Firewall PCI and PC Cards
secure data at the desktop and server levels. 3Com VPN and embedded firewall solutions have earned the industry’s highest international security standard, the Common Criteria Certification.
Protection for IP Telephony
Data protection isn’t the government’s—or 3Com’s—only security concern. For agencies who have implemented or plan to implement Voice over IP (VoIP) technology, 3Com Intrusion Prevention Systems
(IPSs), based on the industry-leading TippingPoint™ IPS engine, provide effective IP telephony protection with filters designed to guard the network against weaknesses in VoIP protocols. 3Com created the VoIP Security Alliance to promote development of effective safeguards as business-critical voice traffic continues to increase on IP networks.
All-in-One Security
In addition to VoIP protection and VPN support, 3Com TippingPoint-based solutions combine industry-leading IPS capabilities that include intrusion detection, a stateful packet inspection firewall, application bandwidth management, audio/video IP multicast routing and web content filtering. These comprehensive solutions safeguard the network from a multitude of attacks and other maladies, and deliver policy-based multisite connectivity for real-time business-critical applications. And the comprehensive, all-in-one approach saves equipment costs and eases the management workload.
FIPS-Compliant Wireless Solutions
As agencies adopt wireless technologies to save wiring costs and provide more mobility and convenience to employees, communications via radio waves present especially serious access control problems. Department of Defense Directive 8100.2 requires strong encryption, authentication, key management and other measures based on the Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS). 3Com has joined forces with industry-leader Fortress Technologies to provide government-grade wireless security solutions that include protected wireless LAN (WLAN) client, access point, LAN infrastructure and network management components. These solutions meet FIPS and a host of other government and military security standards.
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