Sophos NAC Advanced

Overview:

Sophos NAC Advanced safeguards data. NAC Advanced protects information by permitting access to the users who need it and enables companies to create comprehensive security policies to check that any computer accessing the network – even those not owned by the company – are in full compliance. NAC Advanced ensures that computers, including roaming laptops, have up-to-date patches, are running a specific anti-virus solution and have their firewalls enabled.

Key Benefits

• Enables compliance with industry and government regulations
• Provides real-time and historical data for compliance audit trail
• Ensures that only authorized personnel have access to protected and personal data
• Identifies and isolates non-compliant computers attempting network access
• Allows you to block the computers of consultants, contractors and other third parties
• Ensures computer security is up to date with over 700 pre-defined patches and 600 security applications
• Covers multiple sites, such as remote offices, branches and partner locations
• Manages on-site and roaming computers
• Allows administrators to write centralized policies that cover individual users and groups
• Assesses computers prior to network access and during the session
• Integrates with existing security applications and network infrastructure, enhancing ROI
• Responds rapidly to new, unforeseen threats, using automatic security data updates, custom application creation, and enforcement
• Includes 24x7x365 support for the duration of the license and Sophos can be contacted for one-to-one assistance at any time

Features & Benefits:

 

Ensure regulatory and internal security policy compliance

Your security policy regulates how any computer should be configured to reduce vulnerabilities and maximize productivity. Your organization is governed by a range of complex and powerful legislation, with non-compliance potentially proving costly in terms of fines and lost reputation.

Sophos NAC Advanced helps ensure compliance with regulatory and internal security standards:

• Allows you to build customized policies against an extensive range of criteria.
• Checks all requests against the policy prior to connnection, and before any problems occur, and then periodically during a network session.
• Isolates any computer that does not match your policy until it is remediated.
• Provides powerful reporting functions that allow you to monitor and manage your organization’s compliance. Real-time and historical data can act as an audit trail in case of any enquiry.

Safeguards your data

Your organization processes and stores sensitive internal data, and private customer data, which requires careful management and robust security measures.

Sophos NAC Advanced helps you to safeguard your data:

• Enforces policies for specific users or groups to ensure access to information, servers and applications is only available to those that need it.
• Blocks any unwanted applications, such as P2P file-sharing, further enhancing an organization’s data loss prevention (DLP) capabilities.
• Ensures that a computer’s DLP functionality, such as device control, is active.

Achieve comprehensive compliance, alerting, reporting and auditing

You need a snapshot understanding of your network’s security and compliance status, and reports to map trends and to meet regulatory needs.

Sophos NAC Advanced helps you to assess your network status, and provides real-time historical data for a compliance audit trail:

• Powerful reporting capabilities enable administrators to monitor and manage industry regulation and internal security policy compliance.
• Access to real-time and historical data enables sophisticated analysis, reporting and trending information.
• On-demand compliance reports can be easily produced for industry auditors.

Reduces your costs and maximizes productivity

The growing number of threats, increasing regulatory complexity, and use of multiple security solutions all cost you time and money.

Sophos NAC Advanced reduces your total cost of ownership, providing:

• An intuitive web interface for easy policy-building capabilities, extensive compliance, reporting and alerting features, and flexible enforcement options.
• A comprehensive range of over 1300 pre-defined security application and patch compliance assessments.
• An easy-to-deploy software solution that easily fits with your existing network infrastructure.

Industry-leading expertise 24/7

• Every Sophos customer receives superior 24/7 technical support from our in-house global support experts, as standard with every license.
• Our global network of skilled researchers and analysts at SophosLabs™ use pioneering detection technology to provide rapid response to new and emerging threats, including malware, phishing and spam.

Languages available

• Compliance Agent: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian
• Compliance Manager: English

Provides at-a-glance status of current and historical compliance against your security policy

Platforms supported:

Server

• Operating system:
  Windows Server 2008 (32-bit)
  Windows Server 2003 and R2 (32-bit)
• Database:
  Microsoft® SQL 2008 (32- and 64-bit)
  Microsoft® SQL 2008 Express (32- and 64-bit)
  Microsoft® SQL 2005 (32- and 64-bit)
  Microsoft® SQL 2005 Express (32- and 64-bit)
  Microsoft® SQL 2000 (32-bit)

Agent (all platforms support 32-bit)

• Windows 7*
• Windows Vista*
• Windows XP*
• Windows 2000 SP4
• Windows Server 2003 and R2**

* Excluding Home Editions
**Dissolvable Agent Only

Compatible network equipment

• Alcatel™
• Aruba Networks™
• Aventail®
• Cisco®
• Checkpoint®
• Enterasys Networks
• Extreme Networks™
• Foundry® Networks
• Hewlett-Packard
• Infoblox®
• Juniper Networks™
• Lucent Technologies®
• MetaInfo®
• Nortel®
• Novell
• RSA Security®
• Sun Microsystems
• 3Com Corporation™

Documentation:

Sophos NAC Advance Data Sheet (.PDF)