Security & User Access Control                                                  

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Do you want to benefit from wireless networking while maintaining a safe, secure and manageable network in your organization? M-Gravity partners with Bluesocket to provide you with the following unique solution features enabling you to meet these challenges:

Wireless Link Encryption
Protecting the privacy and integrity of your users’ data as it passes through the air is of critical concern to organizations implementing WLANs. Bluesocket provides the strongest level of encryption possible by supporting IPSec and PPTP encrypted tunnels terminated directly on the Wireless Gateway. Bluesocket supports many popular IPSec clients such as Safenet, SSH, PGPNet and those "built-in" to Windows 2000 and Windows XP operating systems.

Authentication
Enforcing who can access your network via the wireless LAN is a vital component to any security policy. With the Bluesocket Wireless Gateway, users can be authenticated via a built-in database or via existing central authentication servers such as LDAP, RADIUS, Windows NT Domain and Active Directory before they can access your network.

Additionally, Bluesocket has developed a unique feature allowing Windows Domain users logging to be transparently logged into the Bluesocket Wireless Gateway. This speeds deployment and end-user acceptance, alleviating the need for extra passwords or end-user training.

Role Based Access Control
Authenticating users is only the first step in managing your wireless LAN. Bluesocket provides fine grained access controls to enforce what services and destinations are available to each user. Via Bluesocket’s role based access controls, IT Administrators can define resources (such as access to the finance server, sales office, or shipping information), services (such as HTTP, FTP, POP3) and controls to specific groups of users.

Class of Service (CoS)
Because WLANs share bandwidth, it is possible for users to "hog" bandwidth and negatively impact overall network performance. Bluesocket’s Wireless Gateway allows bandwidth to be allotted by role to ensure that each group gets their fair share of the available bandwidth. For example, visitors can be limited to 128 Kbps, while the engineering department can be allowed 5 Mbps.

Secure Mobility™
As WLAN networks grow, users will need to roam between network subnets without stopping to re-authenticate, but still need to maintain security. Bluesocket’s patent pending technology enables both with Secure Mobility™. With Bluesocket’s Secure Mobility™, users are free to roam across subnets without interruption, even while maintaining a secure IPSec tunnel.

RADIUS Accounting and Hotspot Support
Bluesocket allows accounting of WLAN usage and the option for enterprises to manage fee-based services to generate new sources of income "from the air". Along with support of RADIUS accounting to track access and usage statistics, the Wireless Gateway can also direct appropriate users to secured "walled garden" access areas, via web pages customizable to each location or customer. Thus, unregistered users can be directed to a secured site to be granted free access or sign-up for "pay for use" services online. Access controls are extensive and granular – a major advantage over other products on the market that only provide three choices: "on", "off", or "secure."

Management
Ease of use is a key feature of the Bluesocket Wireless Gateway. Configuration is achieved through an intuitive secure Web Interface, allowing the flexibility to configure the device through any standard web browser. Additionally, the Bluesocket Wireless Gateway supports SNMP, allowing management via popular platforms such as HP Openview, CA Unicenter, and Tivoli NetView.

Scalability
As your wireless LAN grows, Bluesocket’s Wireless Gateways can grow with you. Through Bluesocket’s single component solution, increasing your WLAN is as easy as adding gateways. Because all Bluesocket Wireless Gateways are interoperable, they can be linked together, providing access for hundreds or even thousands of users. Further, network availability is ensured as all devices support the use of a 2nd gateway configured in for hot fail-over mode.

Contact us today to learn how M-Gravity can help your organization: sales.support@mgravity.com