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Cornered! Is this the answer to Internet security?
Cornered! Is this the answer to Internet security? | Is this the answer to Internet security? |
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| Written by Stuart Corner | |
| Friday, 07 December 2007 | |
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Page 1 of 2 According to Janey, UAC is all about enabling any user to have access to a network so as to give that user as much functionality as company policy and security concerns allow. So, for example a universal access control implementation would enable a visitor/outside contractor to walk into an enterprise facility, log in to the corporate WiFi network and access the public Internet, but no part of the corporate intranet. A key enabler of this in Juniper's universal access control system is technology which checks the visitor's laptop and confirms that it is free of malware and that all key software: operating system, antivirus etc is up to date. If it is not, the system will instruct the user, an enable them to, install the required upgrades. Juniper, according to Janey, is able to deliver "automatic remediation for pretty much any brand of security software: we can download the latest patch or antivirus definition file." Janey said that implementation of Juniper's UAC technology would have prevented the recent massive data security breach in the where a junior Government official shipped by courier two DVDs containing confidential details of 25 million UK residents, which were then lost in transit. "With universal access control that junior official would have been authorised to view that data but not to burn it to disc. That is what universal access control is all about." |
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