Sygate Technologies and Aruba Networks have joined
forces to offer enterprises a secure, on-demand mobile network
access solution for remote users.
With users increasingly wanting access from unmanaged network
points and devices, on-demand security is becoming a key issue for
enterprises to address.
The two companies said enterprises can now ensure that unmanaged
devices accessing the enterprise network meet pre-defined security
policies to ensure safe operation across the network, without
having to install and configure software on every end station.
Through the collaboration Aruba is licensing and integrating the
Sygate On-Demand Agent (SODA) directly into ArubaOS, the operating
system and suite of application software that controls Aruba's
centralised mobility systems.
The joint product is available as part of a new ArubaOS Client
Integrity Module.
“Mobile access is literally redefining how corporate networks
are managed and secured,” said Aaron Vance, an analyst at Synergy
Research. “Companies want to provide mobility as much as people
want to be mobile but by doing this they are faced with the new
problem of how best to protect their network against devices over
which they have no control.”
“By integrating on-demand security directly into the mobility
LAN system, Aruba and Sygate have intelligently turned end-point
integrity into a seamless and automated service that can be easily
enabled, instead of yet another system that must be deployed,
integrated and managed,” said Vance.