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New York City Transit to Deploy Mirage’s Patented NAC Solution
Austin, TX – December 12, 2007 – Mirage Networks, developer of the only patented Network Access Control (NAC) solution, today announced that New York City Transit (NYCT) will deploy Mirage’s NAC solution to secure its automated train network. NYCT is North America’s largest transportation agency serving approximately seven million passengers per day.
NYCT is transitioning from manual train control to a computerized system. This system, also known as communication-based train control, is an automated control system for railways that ensures the safe operation of rail vehicles using data communication between various control entities. The system requires absolute security for the safety of passengers as well as maintenance and construction crews. NYCT selected Mirage Networks to provide authentication of NYCT’s distributed employees and contractors, scanning of network resources for compliance with policy, enhanced network visibility and robust policy enforcement. By ensuring the right people with network-compliant assets can access NYCT’s resources securely and effectively, Mirage’s NAC solution will provide increased network productivity and improved transportation.
Mirage Networks enables more effective business communications, safeguarding networks from threats by providing full-cycle Network Access Control. Mirage’s NAC technology can effectively ensure network compliance by allowing only authorized endpoints to access the network and monitoring all network traffic, all the time. Mirage is a network-based solution that requires no agent software, works in any infrastructure and deploys “virtually inline.”
“With a network infrastructure that supports more than 2.4 billion commuter trips annually, New York City Transit required a comprehensive and scalable NAC solution that deploys quickly and can handle any network device,” said Greg Stock, president and CEO of Mirage Networks. “Only by ensuring every network asset complies with security policy before and after network access is given can organizations realize the true power of full-cycle network access control. We are pleased to add NYCT to our list of premier customers that recognize NAC is the evolution of network security.”
About the Metropolitan Transit Authority
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority takes people in the New York City area wherever they need to go. It opens up countless job opportunities for millions – jobs that are miles from home are easy to get to with our subways, buses, and commuter trains. And after work, the network enables them to get to leisure activities: music, theater, cultural events, sports, and shopping more varied than anywhere in the country. The MTA is the vital network that knits together this rich area and its unparalleled resources. In short, the MTA is committed to guaranteeing that the best city in the world has the world's best transportation system.
MTA subways, buses, and railroads provide 2.4 billion trips each year to New Yorkers — the equivalent of about one in every three users of mass transit in the United States and two-thirds of the nation's rail riders. MTA bridges and tunnels carry more than 300 million vehicles a year — more than any bridge and tunnel authority in the nation. This vast transportation network — North America's largest — serves a population of 14.6 million people in the 5,000-square-mile area fanning out from New York City through Long Island, southeastern New York State, and Connecticut.
About Mirage Networks
Mirage Networks, Inc. is the leading provider of Network Access Control (NAC) solutions. Mirage’s patented technology gives organizations control of all network devices, increased network uptime, ensures policy compliance and reduces operational costs. Mirage’s NAC appliances work in all network environments, deploy virtually inline, and require neither signatures nor agents to enforce policy, and terminate zero-day threats. Mirage Networks is a consistent winner of industry awards and recognition. Learn more at http://www.miragenetworks.com.
Contacts
Mirage Networks
Alison Guzzio, 610-925-2761
alison@inktankstrategic.com
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