DS - Portnox_Unique Advantages
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Portnox provides network access control and visibility across physical, virtual, and cloud networks. It uses an agentless approach to monitor all connected users and devices without requiring any changes to network infrastructure or appliances. Portnox is able to gain a comprehensive and real-time view of the entire network regardless of layer or location to enable more secure and productive network decisions.
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Portnox’s Network Access Control (NAC) Platform traverses all network layers - physical, virtual or in the
cloud - to illuminate, visualize, analyze and control all connected users and devices. With an agentless
and appliance-less architecture it easily scales across major sites, remote offices, BYOD environments
and the Cloud requiring no changes to network infrastructure. It’s unmatched ability to reach every
fragment of the network regardless of layer or location results in the most accurate and real-time view of
an organization’s network enabling smarter, more productive and secure decisions.
The Unique Advantages of Portnox
Boundless
No Appliances
Portnox does not require any appliances (virtual or physical) and
is very easily implemented without the need for network topology
changes, port mirroring or mapping.
Coverage For All Network Layers
Beyond the traditional Ethernet and wireless, Portnox extends
to provide policy on VPN connections, Virtual infrastructure
(datacenter or Virtual Desktop Infrastructure [VDI]) as well as
BYOD and Cloud environments.
Coverage Across All Network Locations
Portnox works with existing networking equipment allowing it to
extend effortlessly across an organization’s entire geography -
major sites and remote locations alike.
No Agent Software and Coverage for All IP Devices
Portnox provides full functionality without the need for any agent
software to be installed on connecting devices allowing for a
far simpler deployment and tighter security policies with less
exceptions in place for unique/esoteric devices. To achieve
this, Portnox leverages 20+ profiling and authentication profiles
including a proprietary signature mechanism. No open source
tools such as NMAP or MAC address based profiles are used.
WITH PORTNOX YOU CAN:
• Get to know who, when, how and
where devices and users are taking
part of your network
• Monitor all access and identify
each connecting device, user and
location
• Enforce location based access
policy
• Enforce corporate security &
ensure regulatory compliance
• Regain the control of your virtual
domain
• Maintain granular access control at
the level of the access layer
• Contain infected and rogue devices
• Achieve comprehensive network
hygiene
DATA SHEET
Think again.
THINK YOU KNOW
YOUR NETWORK?](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/29682de2-9a3c-4cff-97d0-fdeba751c9fe-150729152259-lva1-app6891/85/DS-Portnox_Unique-Advantages-1-320.jpg)
DS - Portnox_Unique Advantages
- 1. portnox.com Portnox’s Network Access Control (NAC) Platform traverses all network layers - physical, virtual or in the cloud - to illuminate, visualize, analyze and control all connected users and devices. With an agentless and appliance-less architecture it easily scales across major sites, remote offices, BYOD environments and the Cloud requiring no changes to network infrastructure. It’s unmatched ability to reach every fragment of the network regardless of layer or location results in the most accurate and real-time view of an organization’s network enabling smarter, more productive and secure decisions. The Unique Advantages of Portnox Boundless No Appliances Portnox does not require any appliances (virtual or physical) and is very easily implemented without the need for network topology changes, port mirroring or mapping. Coverage For All Network Layers Beyond the traditional Ethernet and wireless, Portnox extends to provide policy on VPN connections, Virtual infrastructure (datacenter or Virtual Desktop Infrastructure [VDI]) as well as BYOD and Cloud environments. Coverage Across All Network Locations Portnox works with existing networking equipment allowing it to extend effortlessly across an organization’s entire geography - major sites and remote locations alike. No Agent Software and Coverage for All IP Devices Portnox provides full functionality without the need for any agent software to be installed on connecting devices allowing for a far simpler deployment and tighter security policies with less exceptions in place for unique/esoteric devices. To achieve this, Portnox leverages 20+ profiling and authentication profiles including a proprietary signature mechanism. No open source tools such as NMAP or MAC address based profiles are used. WITH PORTNOX YOU CAN: • Get to know who, when, how and where devices and users are taking part of your network • Monitor all access and identify each connecting device, user and location • Enforce location based access policy • Enforce corporate security & ensure regulatory compliance • Regain the control of your virtual domain • Maintain granular access control at the level of the access layer • Contain infected and rogue devices • Achieve comprehensive network hygiene DATA SHEET Think again. THINK YOU KNOW YOUR NETWORK?
- 2. USA tel. +1.855.4portnox | usinfo@portnox.com | 623 Eagle Rock Avenue, Suite 396, West Orange, NJ 07052 UK tel. +44.1273.256.325 | dotell@portnox.com | 5 Albourne Court, Henfield Road, Albourne, West Sussex BN6 9FF ISRAEL tel. +972.9.957.9889 | fax.+972.9.950.9879 | tellus@portnox.com | Elbe House, 33 Ben Gurion St., Herzlia 46785 Smart Control All Connected Devices In contrast to existing NAC solutions which scan pre-defined IP scopes, thereby ignoring any device utilizing a different IP address, Portnox monitors all connected devices by communicating directly with all switches, wireless controllers, VPN gateways and virtual hosts. No stone is left unturned. Intelligent Security Policies By leveraging this unique ability to scale across all layers, all locations and all devices Portnox provides security policies that are far more agile, advanced and practical than the typical NAC solutions. This greatly minimizes false disconnections providing a more sensible balance between productivity and security. Location!, Location!, Location! Since Portnox interacts directly with the switching equipment, it factors the physical location of the device into the security equation. This results in a far more logical and secure policy that correlates the identity of the connecting device and user to each decision. The benefits of this approach cannot be overstated and they apply to almost every decision Portnox can make: • The physical location of the port or device can translate into the security policy thus enabling far stronger policies in sensitive areas such as datacenters, executive offices or production/factory floors without creating false disconnections in less sensitive areas such as lobbies, conference rooms, etc. • Exceptions for devices with limited ability to authenticate/communicate are always ring-fenced to specific physical locations in the network. Imagine a rule allowing IP cameras or thermostats to connect. By factoring their physical location, Portnox ensures they cannot be removed, duplicated or mimicked without detection. Prior Behavior or ‘Credit Score’ For NAC policies to be effective, they must require connecting devices to meet varying levels of compliance. On average and even in the best managed environments every device will fail compliance every 12-18 months for a myriad of perfectly valid reasons. Rather than immediately disconnect a potential innocuous device for a simple compliance infraction, Portnox can factor its prior Scale Super Lightweight Policy Enforcement Points Portnox Knoxer™ is a propriety and lightweight software designed to carry out Portnox’s policies and controls in remote locations. Knoxer can be easily virtualized or set to run on a standard thin-client PC. It removes the needs for costly, replicated, remediation infrastructure and provides enterprises with an easily and cost-effectively means of scale their NAC deployment. Versatile Licensing Portnox’s licensing is in direct correlation to the infrastructure allowing it to logically scale as the organization grows. There are no fees for additional Portnox servers or Knoxers and both can be natively virtualized on any common virtualization platform such as VMWare or HyperV. This allows organizations with complex and fragmented networks the greatest agility and flexibility in controlling their networks and policies. Easily Integrated and Extensible To ensure easy integration with an organizations existing SIEM/SOC as well as other dashboards, Portnox ships with a mature set of tools including CLI, Web Service APIs and troubleshooting utilities. Role Based Administration Portnox has a flexible policy for allocating customized administrative rights to the various roles at a company responsible for managing Portnox. This means that a helpdesk employee could be granted the rights to shut down or enable a single port, whereas a network or system administrator could be given more policy orientated rights (such as configuration of corporate security policies, VLAN assignments, etc.) “The Portnox system enables us, on one hand to pinpoint the access to the network at the single access point (port) and on the other hand it gives us the reach of a granular oversight which provides a management interface for each department.” Mr. Itzik Cohen - Chief of IT and Infrastructure El Al Israeli Airlines DATA SHEET / UNIOQUE ADVANTAGES