Safe Access goes one better

We announced the newest version of Safe Access today.  Version 4.1 sports two significant new features.  One is endpoint-based DHCP enforcement.  This allows users to be placed in quarantine without any network reconfigurations of quarantine VLANS or router switches.  In a pretty nifty piece of programming, our SA development team has enabled the product to use the routing table on the endpoints themselves.  This complements our existing options of: network based DHCP (802.1q trunking), 802.1x enforcement, Cisco NAC and in-line or gateway.  With agentless, persistent and non-persistent testing methods, Safe Access is in my humble, but probably biased opinion, the best solution available in the NAC market today.  We also test for over 100 different configuration settings and policies out of the box. 

The second feature is a built in proxy server.  This works with the new DHCP option as well as the other options. Through this administrators can easily set what access a quarantined user has.  With the proxy server, you have a very clean and easy way of controlling this. You can read more about Safe Access here.

The network access control area where Safe Access competes is very hot. One analyst report I read recently says that the market for NAC will grow from 100 million in 2005 to 1 Billion in 2010.  Safe Access is approaching 2 years old and is one of the more mature products in the market place.  We expect it to be a linchpin of our network suite for years to come.