FortiNAC: Control external access to your network
How to deal with a former employee who has had too much information about access to your company’s networks? How to control the large number of devices that connect to your business network?
These situations do not have to become a vulnerable point for the security of your organization. If you are worried about this problem, today we will tell you the safest way to control it.
Fortinet, the renowned American company specializing in software and hardware products for connection and cybersecurity services, has designed a flagship product not only to stop such incidents but for something more complete such as controlling everything that happens in external access to your business network.
The increasing mobility of employees with teleworking practices and the multiplicity of internet access devices mean that you have to be constantly vigilant about what connects to your networks, but your concerns may end with FortiNAC.
This Fortinet solution allows you to manage access for both users who are occasional guests or who will work on your network for a longer period. FortiNAC allows you to automate the degree of connectivity of these people, and other aspects such as the hours in which they access the network, from what positions they do it or for what time they have connected.
That way you have the power to inspect access before, during and after granting entry permits over the network. For example, it could verify if that user complies with the security standards that you set for your organization and include automated responses to any anomaly.
FortiNAC has three great strengths for access control:
- Visibility: This allows you to see all the devices and users as they join the network and identify the remote devices through 13 profiling methods. FortiNAC offers detailed details because it constantly scans your network to discover each user, application and device.
- Control: FortiNAC is able to limit where devices on the network can go or not. For this, it implements micro segmentation policies and makes changes to the configurations in switches and wireless products of more than 70 providers.
Answer: This is one of the most important points, because with FortiNAC you can automate the process of evaluating any type of access, check if it matches the approved profiles and in case you do not want to act against vulnerabilities, blocking unrelated access. This Fortinet product uses role-based dynamic network access control policies to limit access to a specific group of users or devices. With FortiNAC you will have guaranteed actions to restrict access to events that intend to supplant MAC addresses and other anomalies in traffic patterns thanks to the devices FortiGate they join this product to strengthen the security of their network in real time.
Why choose FortiNAC for access control to your network?
This Fortinet product has Micro segmentation capabilities, that will only allow you to approve the accesses you consider. It also highlights its extensive multi-vendor support which allows the configuration of network devices from various providers (switches, wireless access points, firewalls, clients).
Scalability is also guaranteed as FortiNAC allows you to effectively scale to multiple site locations and is compatible with millions of devices
FortiNAC is an effective and proven solution by multiple companies to improve visibility, control and automated response against threats from IoT, third-party devices and other malicious events on the network.
You can benefit from a portfolio of guaranteed quality solutions in Fortinet, as well as the opportunities they offer to their clients through Globenet International Corp . The company has an alliance established and certified with Fortinet, so that translates into multiple advantages and guarantees for you.
We guarantee not only the product you need, we also provide you with a team of qualified experts to offer you the best option for consulting, training, pre-configuration of systems, free quality control and remote or on-site installation. All with multiple guarantees of after-sales support.
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