Let’s be clear: Access without proper authentication doesn’t make sense
Soliton Systems
Japanese Technology Company Specializing in IT Security, Secure Live Streaming and Remote Control over cellular 4/5G
The primary responsibility of a secure system is to ensure that only authorised users have access to the network. Legitimate users should be allowed in, and cybercriminals kept out. This is done by authenticating the user’s identity seeking access, and then checking that the user is authorised to enter.
The ultimate goal is an environment where users can access resources with a frictionless experience that does not compromise IT efficiency, security or compliance.
Taking the end user out of the equation
It’s a given fact that the user is the weakest link in the security chain; the cost of human errors adds up. Using digital certificates, you remove the user as part of the authentication process. Digital certificate authentication gives you full control, knowing that different elements are checked before granting access by providing authentication through a certificate instead of a username and a password or biometric identification.
How Network Access Control Helps Make it Happen
Network Access Control, or NAC, ensures that only authenticated users can access the private company network. NAC allows for a complete centralised security approach to your network and follows the principle of the 3 A’s:
NAC ensures that users who access networks, data, devices, and software resources are properly authorised. In many cases, this is a security concern, ensuring that sensitive data and functions do not fall in the hands of people who might purposefully or inadvertently use them.
Meanwhile, your employees will appreciate they do not need to think about security matters.
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