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Cloud Security|Cloud computing offers advantages over building and maintaining private data centers including flexibility, reduced maintenance and operations costs and the ability to employ lower powered, lower priced personal computers.
StillSecure has decided to face a networking reality: customers like boxes.
While it may be less expensive to buy software and install it on off-the-shelf servers, for some reason, customers seem to prefer buying a hardware/software combo that they can plug in and have support for.
To that end, the company is introducing three new devices, the SA 100, SA 200, and SA 300 that support the latest version of the company’s Safe Access NAC software.
Each device comes in three models, one that is a stand-alone enforcement management server (MS), one that is an enforcement server (ES) and one that is both (combo). Some of the particulars:
SA 100
* Combo ES and MS – supports a maximum of 500 users
* ES – supports a maximum of 500 users
* MS – supports a maximum of 2,500 users and 5 ESs
SA 200
* Combo ES and MS – supports a maximum of 1,500 users
* ES – supports a maximum of 1,500 users
* MS – supports a maximum of 22,000 users and 15 ESs
SA 300
* Combo ES and MS – supports a maximum of 3,000 users
* ES – supports a maximum of 3,000 users
* MS – supports a maximum of 300,000 users and 100 ESs
Prices range from $1,500 to $3,000 plus software licenses, which vary depending on the number of IP addresses they monitor.
The Secure Access software itself sports some new features. These include a feature the company calls Deep Check, which performs a more in-depth inspection of endpoints than a simple registry check that some vendors perform. It can discover whether individual files are installed. So if security rules call for a certain file to be installed and it is, but that installation is not reflected in the registry, Deep Check can find it. It is a way to reduce the number of machines that actually meet NAC requirement yet are restricted anyway, the company says.
The company is also making its intrusion detection/prevention (IDS/IPS) platform, Strata Guard, interoperable with its Safe Access. That gives the NAC device knowledge that the IDS/IPS platform picks up about protocol anomalies and suspicious behavior. The NAC gear can then respond to perceived threats based on how severe they are ranked by blocking traffic, quarantining machines or sending warnings to administrators (Compare NAC products).
Tim Greene is senior editor at Network World.
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