They connect with and entertain over 1.3 billion people every day. They are a Global Media and Entertainment conglomerate with a presence across television broadcasting, movies, music, live entertainment and digital businesses.

The customer was consolidating all his multi-locations in Mumbai to one building to build his corporate and head office. They have a diversified business and each business required different network needs. They wanted to have a common IT infra service for all divisions, at the same time they wanted to have options from roaming to sharing data in a secured manner.

Insight has supplied and deployed Extreme Networks NAC solution for 1900+ network endpoints. We have deployed one of the leading tools to achieve his business objective with our professional services that has global deployment capabilities. We have deployed a solution which can work as an independent solution, which means the customer had been switching from wireless to different vendors. Our solution was mature enough to understand the user’s profile when he moves from the switched port to the network port.

The customer got the best advantage of NAC’s business-oriented visibility and control over individual users and applications in multi-vendor infrastructures. NAC protects existing infrastructure investments since it does not require the deployment of new switching hardware or that agents be installed on all end systems. It performs as a multi-user, multi-method authentication, vulnerability assessment and assisted remediation. It offers the flexibility to choose whether to or not to restrict access for guests/contractors to public Internet services only—and how to handle authenticated internal users/devices that do not pass the security posture assessment. Another direct benefit is the detection of an infected endpoint before it can join the network and affect other machines. The project scope included pre and post implementation of threat & vulnerability assessment.

The customer has achieved his business objective and scaled up to 2400+ endpoint in very short span. The company got a centralized policy enforcement tool which has increased their IT productivity. They are able to create reports as per the respective business compliance in real time.

Additionally, the customer has benefited from the NAC solution that the endpoints policy has kept up-to-date continuously. Insight’s TCT security team has made the automation process so less of human intervention and easily adaptable to non-technical users at each business house.

It's hard to deny that a NAC implementation can be challenging, but when used correctly, it's a very effective tool in any security-in-depth strategy.