Customer, Analyst, and Media Quotes
Customer | Analyst | Media
Customer Quotes
“ConSentry has helped us bring more discipline to the LAN, with controls in place that guarantee that only authorised users are admitted. Acute transparency into user activity provides very clear forensics to ensure traffic is moving legitimately and adds another layer of security to our LAN.”
John White, IT Manager for UK and Asia, Technicolor
“Other vendors cannot come close to the total solution that ConSentry’s Intelligent Switching provides. The value add of having a solution that is fully integrated into one platform with one company is key, unlike the multiple solutions from other vendors that must be integrated through external efforts.”
Lou
Owayni, Global Network and Telecom Manager, Adaptec
“ConSentry addresses the challenges of managing today’s collaborative environments by ensuring only certain users can reach the applications and servers. ConSentry was quick to provide product evaluation and technical support for our environment. Once we evaluated the LANShield Switch platform, it was an easy purchase decision.”
John Demcher, Network and Data Security Manager, Beryl Healthcare
“As soon as we deployed the ConSentry LANShield, it proved its value by giving us the ability to troubleshoot a critical performance issue within the branch office network. By using ConSentry’s reporting functionality, we were immediately able to view and identify user actions that were causing drains on bandwidth and act accordingly.”
Daryl Flack, Head of IT Services, On Demand Group
“When we got the ConSentry demo gear and saw how it performs, we were sold on it. And having all that security available in a switch allowed us to blanket our campus and put controls right next to the users. It was a much stronger security architecture for our needs.”
Payman
Damghani, Network Security Analyst, Fayetteville State University
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Analyst Quotes
“The integration of security into switching takes me back about fifteen years ago when LAN probes first appeared for monitoring traffic on Ethernet networks. Very quickly, the technology in these independent probes became an integrated component of Ethernet switches. I see the same pattern being repeated with today’s security appliances. We need more intelligence and control in our networks today, and it makes sense to be able to integrate that additional functionality into the Ethernet switch."
Lawrence Orans, Research Director, Gartner
“One viable option for implementing a Network Access Control [NAC] process is to have an in-line device that piggybacks on a switch on your network. The first rule for any in-line device is to “do no harm”, and therefore they must be wirespeed with very low latency. One advantage of this option is that detection and enforcement are in a single in-line platform, as opposed to an out-of-band detection mechanism that must send ACLs to a switch or router device [ACL pushing]. Gartner research has shown that ACL pushing or automatic firewall reconfiguration is not widely embraced, as the rule management quickly gets out of control.”
John Pescatore, Vice President and Distinguished Analyst, Gartner
“Switching has become commoditized, but integrated security and switching changes the playing field significantly.”
Dave Passmore, Vice President, Burton Group
“The traditional notion of putting network security at just the perimeter, the border between the Internet and the private network doesn’t really hold up anymore. You can provide a certain level of security by putting firewalls and IDPs at the border point but it doesn’t really help you understand what’s going on behind the border and secure all those connections that could be coming in from inside the network. There needs to be something new added into the network to secure the interior of the network just as well as you secure the border between inside and outside.”
Jeff Wilson, Executive Director, Infonetics Research
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Media Quotes
“Recent announcements by all the once-and-future leaders of the network switch market have made it clear: In order to support the business, networks need to be more intelligent. That intelligence starts in the switch. Some vendors, such as ConSentry, are offering intelligent switches with network access control and application management technology built right into the architecture of their switches. [Yankee analyst Zeus] Kerravala said the embedded approach taken by ConSentry has its advantages.”
SearchNetworking
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February 2008
“Due to the broad range of offerings, a ConSentry solution can be effective for midsize companies to large enterprises. ConSentry's special strength is in reporting and information presentation, offering a best-of-breed dashboard for policy-based networking that other vendors would do well to emulate."
Infoworld – February 2008
“ConSentry's switches have the company's NAC (network access control) technology built-in, along with enough intelligence to pull a user's role out of the corporate directory and then apply the appropriate application-level permissions to that port.”
Techworld – February 2008
“At the edge, ConSentry is moving beyond its NAC appliance roots by unveiling secure switches based on a new architecture. ConSentry’s new Intelligent Switching architecture allows its edge switches to implement user and application control to align network and service access to business operations and policies.”
Network World
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January 2008
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