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A project unveiled this week at DEMO 07 by Alcatel-Lucent will let enterprise network administrators reach out and touch corporate laptops anytime, anywhere.
The Evros Project has two parts: a PC Card for the laptop and a rack-mounted enterprise gateway. They work together over a wireless 3G link as a network access control (NAC), management, and security system for mobile laptops. The software controls also work over wired or wireless LANs.
“Managing laptops is a problem for the enterprise: when they’re unplugged; you lose the connection with the enterprise [management] infrastructure,” says Dor Skuler, director and general manager for Evros, which draws on technology from Bell Labs under the auspices of Alcatel-Lucent Ventures. “Our product controls laptops wherever they are, even if they’re turned off.”
The PC Card makes that possible. Skuller calls it a microappliance. In effect, it is a wireless computer that gives administrators access to the laptop. The card incorporates a cellular 3G modem, CPU, memory, battery, hardened Linux-based operating system, GPS chip to fix the laptop’s location, and removable memory.
Kernel-level drivers loaded onto the laptop intercept all TCP/IP traffic and funnel it through the card, where an onboard VPN client creates an encrypted tunnel to the Evros gateway over any network connection.
“The card acts just like a mobile phone,” Skuler says. “It lies dormant in deep sleep, ‘listening’ to the 3G net. When it’s pinged, it turns itself on; creates the IPSec tunnel to the enterprise; gets new administration settings, management commands, location query; backs up data; installs a new patch or software update; and so on.”
There is no user input required.
Through the card, administrators can enforce data encryption policies for files, folders, and disk via encryption keys on the card itself. If the laptop is lost or stolen, the keys can be deleted remotely, keeping the scrambled data still scrambled.
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