Open NAC Integrates With All BYOD Solutions
Bradford Networks launches Network Sentry SmartEdge Platform
March 12, 2013
PRESS RELEASE
Cambridge, MA, March 12, 2013-- Bradford Networks&trade, the best choice to enable secure network access for corporate issued and personal mobile devices, today launched the Network Sentry SmartEdge Platform&trade. This new open platform enables industry-leading security, mobility management, and wired/wireless vendors to integrate with Bradford Networks' award-winning network access control (NAC) solution, Network Sentry, to deliver complete and secure solutions for bring-your-own-device (BYOD).
The Network Sentry SmartEdge platform provides an open Application Programmer Interface (API) that enables bi-directional communication to and from Network Sentry, to extend and enhance visibility, control and remediation out to the very edge of customers' networks. Network Sentry is used by more than 900 customers, and is a core enabling technology for BYOD through its ability to detect every network connection and then provision network access based on the risk posture and profile of each unique user and device.
The Network Sentry SmartEdge Platform provides the foundation for an integrated BYOD ecosystem that comprises leading security, mobility management and wired/wireless infrastructure vendor solutions together with NAC. By utilizing the platform, leading industry BYOD solutions will:
· Reduce BYOD Risk: Provide complete, integrated solution offerings that can be easily and seamlessly tailored to address customers' specific BYOD strategies, challenges and infrastructures.