Great Bay Beacon Endpoint Profiler
Discovers and maintains a comprehensive identity-based inventory of all network-attached endpoints.
Great Bay's Beacon Endpoint Profiler™
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Automated Network Endpoint discovery: delivers a comprehensive inventory of all network-attached devices and provides critical contextual information such as endpoint identity, location, addressing, and chronology.
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Cost and complexity reduction for 802.1X projects: By discovering, provisioning and securing non-EAP endpoints such as WLAN Access Points, UPS’, Apple devices, Linux devices, Printers, VoIP phone, HVAC systems, PXE boot hosts, Badge readers, etc.
MAC Authentication: Many enterprises choose this as the first phase of an authenticated network, where all enterprise owned assets are identified and authenticated using existing network and RADIUS systems.
Business Scenario
Enabling and Extending NAC: The industry’s leading NAC vendors have integrated with Great Bay Software’s Beacon including Cisco, Juniper, and Symantec.
Supporting Incident Response: Providing a chronology of numerous contextual views allows the IT Security Administrator to resolve incidents more rapidly and with more details to support the identity of the offending endpoint.
Network Migration Planning: Many Enterprises have leveraged Beacon to deliver a more efficient network migration through more detailed planning, discovery, and impact analysis.
Great Bay's Technology
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New Endpoint Profiling Techniques:
Flexibility for any enterprise
Active Directory Integration - for retrieval of detailed endpoint information for devices in the Domain
RADIUS Accounting - for learning username information and better understanding of the endpoints current authenticated status
CDP - for gathering identity data from CDP-enabled devices
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New Endpoint Events
For greater awareness of the network edge
The Events system delivers a more robust method for tracking identity changes for endpoints by adding directionality to the Profile Change events, and adds two new event types; Alert Profile and Profile Consistency.
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Profile Groups
For more efficient endpoint inventory and information access
Network devices come in a wide variety of models, versions and manufacturers, Profile groups allow the IT security administrator to better manage these endpoint types by aggregating them into groups without sacrificing the detailed endpoint profiling techniques that facilitate a more granular, and highly desirable, endpoint inventory.
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Event Response
Solving Change of Access (CoA)
Beacon solves the Change of Access (CoA) challenge for provisioning new devices as well as reengaging the authentication system when the behavior of an endpoint intimates that its MAC address may have been spoofed, a hub or WLAN router inserted, or otherwise requires reconsideration for its appropriate level of connectivity.
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Advanced Rule Editor
Complexity ~ Simplified
Complex rules, multiple attributes, Boolean expressions; Beaconprovides the Advanced Rule Editor to dramatically simplify the process of creating complex rules. Utilize pre-configured templates, have access to Beacon’s entire library of profiling options, add and move operators with a simple drag and drop. The Advanced Rule Editor will change the way you create a manage profiles.
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