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Designing and enforcing security policy is the first step in successfully protecting networks, data, and end users. No amount of even the very best equipment is going to provide adequate security if it is implemented without the guidance of a carefully constructed and enforced policy.
As an example, for many organizations, the first wireless security policy is a 'no wireless' dictate, and it means exactly what the name implies. No employees, consultants or visitors are permitted to install or use unauthorized wireless devices on company premises. It sounds simple, but without proactive enforcement the 'no wireless' policy is often widely ignored and ineffective. Doing weekly walk-around searches for rogue devices is like only running your Internet firewall on Thursdays or guarding access to your facilities only five minutes out of every hour.
Unauthorized devices pose the same level of risk as a poorly secured Web application. They can expose the company infrastructure and secrets to the outside world (particularly if they are wireless APs or PCs acting as APs). Left connected these devices create a dangerous vulnerability at best, and if exploited, a company disaster at worst.
Despite the widespread understanding that rogue devices are a leading threat vector facing enterprises today, there has not been a viable solution for scouring the entire network to ensure that only approved devices are connected. And the risk of a network breach has mostly gone unaddressed.
Network Chemistry provides the industry's most complete suite of tools for enforcing network security policies including 'no wireless'. Network Chemistry Scanner provides complete network device classification, rogue discovery and remediation coverage capabilities through its flexible deployment architecture and is ideal for use to enforce a 'no wireless' policy where wireless infrastructure is not in place. Organizations with wireless LANs and mobile users who are concerned with protecting confidential data and the wireless network can deploy Network Chemistry Scanner in conjunction with Network Chemistry's other award-winning, and integrated solutions (RFprotect Distributed and RFprotect Endpoint) to provide complete enterprise-wide wireless threat protection.
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