Remote Access/Management

Remote access is the ability to get access to a computer or a network from a remote distance. In corporations, people at branch offices, telecommuters, and people who are traveling may need access to the corporation's network. Home users get access to the Internet through remote access to an Internet service provider. Broadband connection through desktop, notebook, or handheld computer over the internet is a common method of remote access.

Network Access Control

Network Access Control (NAC), is a set of protocols used to explain how to secure the network nodes prior to the nodes accessing the network. NAC also integrates the automatic remediation process (fixing non-compliant nodes before allowing access) into the network systems, allowing the network infrastructure (routers, switches and firewalls, etc..) to work together with back office servers and end user nodes (computers/servers, printers, and IP phones, etc..) to insure the total information system is operating securely before interoperability is allowed. NAC aims to do exactly what the name implies: control access to a network with policies, including pre-admission endpoint security policy checks and post-admission controls over where users and devices can go on a network and what they can do.