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Delivering trust and simplicity in a complex wireless world.
Wireless local area networks are
being deployed at a record pace as the need for mobile connectivity
both within and outside the workplace increases. By equipping
employees with mobile devices, leading-edge enterprises remove the
barriers to networking and communication, increase productivity, and
gain competitive advantage.
Even with the obvious cost savings and productivity gains, wireless
LAN technology presents significant challenges for IT professionals.
How do you support a growing number of wireless devices and
competing standards, protect valuable computer resources from the
growing threat of Internet viruses and worms, overcome bandwidth
limitations, protect the network from unauthorized users, and
integrate your WLAN into an existing wired infrastructure? The
answer— Bluesocket’s BlueSecure Controller family.
The BlueSecure Controller acts as a
firewall between the wireless LAN access points and the wired LAN,
and requires no changes to existing wired LAN hardware or user
client software. Additional BlueSecure Controllers can be connected
to provide hot failover capability, as well as scalability and
subnet mobility across the enterprise.
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How it Works
The BlueSecure Controller acts as a firewall between the wireless LAN access
points and the wired LAN, and requires no changes to existing wired LAN
hardware or user client software. Additional BlueSecure Controllers can be
connected to provide hot failover capability, as well as scalability and
subnet mobility across the enterprise.
Bluesocket offers a wide range of scalable Controllers to support your
enterprise WLAN deployments from the network edge to the core. The
BlueSecure supports branch and regional offices, and workgroups of up to 50
concurrent users; while the BlueSecure 1100 can support entire office floors
of up to 100 users; for medium to large enterprises, the BlueSecure 2100
supports up to 400 users while providing hardware-based encryption
acceleration. For larger enterprises requiring higher throughput and
centralized WLAN management and control, the BlueSecure 5000 provides a core
infrastructure platform supporting up to 1000 users
Open Systems Interoperability
Bluesocket’s "standards agnostic” approach is optimized to support
wireless devices and access points from all major vendors, and
support for current and future 802.11 versions. This open systems
approach means you won’t be locked into a specific technology or
vendor, thereby ensuring interoperability with your current and
future WLAN infrastructure.
Secure Mobility® Adds New Meaning to Wireless LAN Security
Bluesocket’s patent-pending Secure Mobility technology gives users
of laptops, PDAs and other mobile devices wireless access to
corporate networks and the Internet while moving across subnets.
Secure Mobility gives users freedom to work where they
choose—letting them roam seamlessly across networks, even while
using IPSec tunneling, without the need to re-authenticate. Secure
Mobility technology is compatible with, and enhances current WLAN
security standards such as 802.1x, WPA and 802.11i without requiring
additional or proprietary client software.
Flexible Role-Based Access Control and Policy Enforcement
Bluesocket’s unique role-based approach provides convenient
management of privileges for different categories of users.
BlueSecure Controllers match user permissions to your organizational
structure. IT Administrators can define destinations (such as a
finance server, router or IP address subnet), services (such as
HTTP, FTP, POP3), user locations, time/date schedules, and available
bandwidth to control which users have access to each resource.
Multiple service and destination groups simplify policy creation and
reduce the complexity and cost of administration of large-scale
networks.
Universal WLAN Authentication
The BlueSecure Controller provides comprehensive authentication
options utilizing username/password combinations or digital
certificates, with the authentication database held locally or
centrally in RADIUS, LDAP, NT Domain servers, or Windows Active
Directories. Users can log into a Windows Domain and
authenticate to the WLAN seamlessly with Bluesocket’s unique
"Transparent Windows Domain Login.” Where AP-based WPA/802.11i
authentication is required, Bluesocket complements the login process
transparently, allowing appropriate access for the WLAN user. Where
browser-based, secure (SSL) login is required (e.g. Hot Spots,
Universities, Guests/Visitors), Bluesocket supports a customizable
web-login page that allows end-user branding and an ability to
upload third-party SSL certificates. Where "non-intelligent” devices
need WLAN access, MAC-based authentication and role/VLAN assignment
is supported, providing true wireless fire-walling capabilities.
Strong Data Encryption
With the BlueSecure Controller, you can bring the highest level
of security directly to the user’s mobile device. All BlueSecure
Controllers support IPSec, typically used in high-end VPN and
firewall products. Microsoft’s native L2TP/IPSec client
implementation is also supported, which allows for a single,
non-proprietary access to WLAN and existing remote access VPN
resources. Other options include using PPTP which is also built into
both Windows and Macintosh platforms.
Intrusion Detection, Worm Protection and Clientless Scanning for
Trusted Endpoint Security.
Unlike signature-based tools or OS-specific scanners, the BlueSecure
Controller has implemented real-time monitoring of Wi-Fi users’ data
to detect malicious traffic based on the users’ actual behavior
without requiring any client-side software. This enables
administrators to automatically block network access to hackers or
worm infected users even for "zero-day” attacks well before
traditional signature-based tools have updates available.
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Security and QoS for VoIP
802.11 is a shared bandwidth technology, so network contention
becomes an issue as the number of users and network traffic
increase. Bluesocket overcomes this problem by providing
administrators fine grained bandwidth and WLAN prioritization QoS
controls to ensure low latency performance for voice and video.
Bluesocket’s unique stateful packet inspection allows adminstrators
to identify and secure dynamic, real-time voice protocols such as
SIP, H232 and SCCP and provides a complete platform for converged
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The BlueSecure Controller fully integrates Check Point’s Integrity™
Clientless Security to provide a clientless, maintenance-free way to protect
wireless devices of viruses, worms, Trojan Horses, spyware/malware and other
threats and anomalies before they are allowed to log-on and gain access to
the WLAN. Taking advantage of automated Web-based scanning, Bluesocket is
unique in providing trusted end-point security, ensuring the user’s device
is free from viruses and worms, and has the required security and OS
patches.
Click Here to view a DEMO of the
Bluesecure Controller Family.
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