Duxbury Networking, in association with its principal, Enterasys Networks, has announced the availability of a policy-based system that allows a corporate network to provision required business services to users automatically, while preventing undesirable and malicious traffic from entering the infrastructure. Duxbury sees the Acceptable Use Policy Solution as a key component of a secure network strategy. It maps the roles of key personnel within an organisation, defines the services available from the network infrastructure, and clarifies the rules that enforce the defined services. Once identified, these elements - the "roles, services and rules" - are leveraged to build the appropriate configuration in NetSight Atlas Policy Manager, Enterasys` graphical policy-management tool.
According to Andy Robb, Duxbury`s technology specialist, Acceptable Use Policy guidelines are constructed into a policy profile, which is distributed to the network infrastructure. This allows appropriate business-service access, but filters out undesirable traffic.
"Ensuring the security of technology assets and intellectual property is a primary goal of most acceptable use policies, so the ability to eliminate known threats, such as rogue applications and protocols, worms and viruses, or denial of service attacks is essential," he says.
"With the Enterasys solution, users can benefit from a network architecture that permits required business resources, yet prevents access to resources that are undesirable or prohibited.
"And, as new security threats emerge, it will allow users to respond quickly and effectively - by modifying the network to mitigate the impact of these threats."
Robb says the solution will assist users to work more securely and efficiently.
"As access to undesirable applications and resources is minimised, the bandwidth they have been consuming can be used by business-critical applications and resources. This, in turn, leads to enhancements of in network infrastructure performance, viability and lifecycle," he adds.
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