WPA2E On-Ramping

Making Wireless Security Simple

The dramatic increase in mobile device usage has IT professionals struggling to strike a balance between accessibility and security. WPA2-Enterprise is an established standard that ensure a secure wireless access. However, the job of a configuring a user’s device to accept the required supplicant is time consuming. SafeConnect offers an automated solution that configures, authorizes, and verifies compliance of these devices without direct- IT involvement.

The XpressConnect module offers a simply, innovative and user-friendly approach to automate a device’s 802.1x supplicant for secure (encrypted) WPA2 enterprise wireless network access. A configuration wizard ensures that devices can be securely registered security without support staff involvement. The ability to provide a simple, one-step on-ramping process for securing a wide array of mobile computing devices, including Apple iOS (iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch), Android, Windows, Mac and Ubuntu devices.

The Need for NAC in a WPA2 Enterprise/802.1x World

The benefit of WPA2 Enterprise and 802.1x is that it provides assurances that the devices connecting to the network are known and permitted on the network. SafeConnect builds on this registration validation, by matching the user’s identity to the device, checking the security posture of the device and managing the desired security boundaries through policy enforcement.

SafeConnect with the Xpress Connect Module is powerful one-two punch that securely on-boards devices and then continuously maintains their security position. And yet delivers all of this in a completely automated way.

Let us prove to you just how easily SafeConnect can work for you.