Educational organizations must evaluate solutions that will provide them with complete control. The chosen product should be simple to use, manage, and deploy. In addition to a product that is scalable and cost-effective, universities, colleges and school districts should focus on a holistic solution.

Key features of Intelligent Control of users and applications

• complete Network Admission Control (NAC) - user authentication, role derivation, and host posture assessment to ensure only valid users and devices enter the LAN
• improved application performance - Layer 7 identification, prioritization, and treatment of applications to protect assets and put business needs first
• complete user control - identity- and role-based policies to control access to applications and other resources
• faster troubleshooting - username, device, application, and resource tied together to accelerate incident response
• simplified compliance and audit trail - full documentation of all policies, as well as all LAN activities, tied to username and resource to speed audits

Key projects ConSentry can help address

• Prevent students and other users from accessing unauthorized resources, such as student records or grading systems
• Block or rate limit inappropriate applications, such as peer-to-peer traffic
• Provide the control and visibility required to stay in compliance with RIAA and HIPAA
• Ensure only compliant devices get on the LAN, without IT installing desktop agents