A panel of network administrators from educational institutions across the country will discuss the unique network challenges colleges and universities face, including the rise of headless IP devices, digital intellectual property rights versus P2P networking, maintaining the security of sensitive student information, and protecting against threats introduced through Instant Messaging applications, to name a few. Join us for a lively discussion as we explore these and other issues facing educational institutions, and the role of Network Access Control on today’s wired campus.

Moderator:

• Trent Fitz, Director, Product Management, Mirage Networks

Panel Members:

• Will Snydor, IT Manager, San Jacinto College
• David Lindstrom, Chief Privacy Officer, Penn State University
• Mike Lamar, Network Administrator, Northwest Mississippi Community College
• John Pearson, Sr. Network Engineer, Wright State University

Many organizations already reap the advantages of managed services for security components such as firewalls and intrusion prevention systems. NAC on Demand allows you to leverage NAC experts and the benefits of a full-cycle NAC solution, a fundamental element of any security architecture, without incurring the cost and risk of deploying a new technology across your organization. Attend this session and learn how you can achieve complete NAC security for your business without having to jump into the deep end.

Whether you’re using NAC for pre-admission authentication and integrity checks or for ongoing threat detection and mitigation, you can make your NAC solution do much more. With proper planning, you can craft policies to leverage your NAC solution for regulatory compliance, application governance, and enforcing granular acceptable use policies. Attend this session to learn about policy overlay, starting with basic NAC and building a completely controlled environment, one layer at a time.

Deployment of any new security technology comes with challenges so step one is to ensure that the business value justifies the change. Executives, end users, and IT staff will all benefit from NAC with reduced threat risk, higher availability, and a network that better serves the business. Attend this session to hear a real world example of introducing NAC, getting executive sponsorship and user buy-in, then making it flourish to realize the tangible business value.

NAC solutions designed to protect the network interior are positioned deep within the network, and because of this have a unique vantage point to address a host of governance and control concerns. In addition to governing who and what can connect to your network, the NAC umbrella can be extended to address issues such as compliance initiatives, data security, and application control, among many others. Attend this session to learn how to leverage NAC to solve real business problems across your organization.

Are you a customer who likes to understand how and why, not just what? Do you prefer the command line to the GUI? Do you like to speak Klingon? If you answered yes to any of those questions, this may be the highlight of the conference for you. In this session, the inventors of NAC open their technical vault to share their expertise in an open Q&A format. Prizes will be given for participation!

This session of Mirage University will offer advanced training in progressive NAC concepts. The course will provide a condensed review of the Mirage architecture and then concentrate on NAC theory, deployment strategies, and policy optimization. Participants completing this course will acquire the expertise to fully leverage Mirage NAC capabilities in real world environments and bring immediate positive impact to security operations.