Alcatel Carrier Internetworking Solutions OmniSwitch 9000 - Manual (Page 8)

8 Alcatel-Lucent | OmniSwitch 9000
SECURITY
Alcatel-Lucent secures the network with proactive and reactive
capabilities that are provided through Alcatel-Lucent Access Guardian
and the Alcatel-Lucent OmniVista 2770 Quarantine Manager.
The Alcatel-Lucent OmniVista Quarantine Manager is
an open, attack containment solution that defends
against attacks at the network and application levels
by isolating misbehaving users and providing a
means for user remediation. It integrates quarantine
information from any IDS or source of information
about an attack and can locate and isolate an
attacking device on any switch or wireless LAN switch
in the network.
Although third-party switches can quarantine a port,
when the OmniVista Quarantine Manager is used with
an Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch it is able to offer options
to either isolate or quarantine only the offending user
while keeping network access to any other users on
the same port open.
Alcatel-Lucent Access Guardian provides identity based
network access to enable enforcement of device and
network security policies, resulting in increased privacy
and availability of communications. Access Guardian
authenticates network users, confirms their PC’s
conformance to security policies, and then provides
access rights based on the user’s role. Using Access
Guardian, the network is able to provide secure access
to all authorized users including IP phones and other
network devices, regardless of the vendor. All while
protecting the privacy and availability of your
business’ communications.
Alcatel-Lucent’s Access Guardian enables proactive, network-wide
security through auto-sense authentication that runs on the OmniSwitch,
preventing unauthorized network access. The Alcatel-Lucent OmniVista
2770 Quarantine Manager provides reactive security by automatically
handling malicious attacks by taking intrusion information and
dynamically reconfiguring the network to contain the attack.