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Rethinking 802.1x
This article continues our series on “Multi-Layered Access Control,” which seeks to explore various approaches to network visibility and access control. While our last piece dealt with ARP-based strategies for securing endpoints, we now [...]
Genians’ virtuous NAC triangle to secure the IoT era
In the current world of ever-increasing cyber threats, network managers face a common set of fundamental challenges on a daily basis. Keeping one’s network safe and secure from the very real and myriad cyber [...]
Secure your network by leveraging ARP
Even the most fledgling of network administrators are familiar with the ARP protocol and the role it plays in helping operators manage their networks. Indeed, ARP, or “Address Resolution Protocol,” is a stateless communication [...]
Multi-Layered Access Control
Today, the Internet is a vast network of connections: people to people, people to Things, and Things to Things. This results in a complex melting pot of security and network management challenges because of [...]
Achieving Government Cybersecurity Compliance – NIST
Over the past few years, there has been much attention paid in the technology security trade press to the need for companies to become “NIST SP 800-171 Compliant.” Much of this has focused on [...]
Genians wins Cisco Hackcamp 2018!
Genians’ Next-Gen Network Access Control solutions enhance Cisco’s DNA framework We’re very pleased to announce that Team Genians has just won first place at the Cisco Hackcamp 2018 competition on May 25th, 2018, in Seoul, [...]
Part II – Empower Your IT/OT Convergence with Genians Next-Gen NAC Capabilities
Converging and integrating OT and IT therefore often requires a “modernization” effort to bring legacy OT systems up-to-date so they can safely be connected to an enterprise’s network without compromising overall systems availability and [...]
Part 1 – The age-old separation of IT and OT (Operational Technology) has begun to erode with the emergence of IoT
Over the past few years, we have heard a great deal about the rapidly emerging revolution in the Internet of Things (IoT). Indeed, major analysts like Gartner and Forrester have predicted that we are [...]
Genians helps global bank secure all enterprise endpoint devices
With Genians, this global bank achieves optimal visibility for all IP-enabled devices across its branches in 24 countries, where it consistently ensures the highest levels of systems security, availability, and regulatory compliance. [...]
Genians helps nationwide postal system fully automate IT security
With Genians, Korea’s major postal services now manage network access far more securely and productively Background & Requirements South Korea’s postal system is comprised of two major divisions, many affiliated agencies, and [...]
Genians helps world’s largest shipbuilder become more secure
With Genians, the largest shipbuilding enterprise in the world now maintains consistent cybersecurity policy management, enforcement, remediation, and auditing to secure their internal network resources Background & Requirements The world’s largest shipbuilding [...]
Next Generation of NAC Capabilities
As the challenges identified above manifest themselves increasingly, NAC platforms will need to be highly responsive to marketplace dynamics and the overall threat landscape – and accordingly innovative as well. The essential characteristics required [...]
Why Still Network Access Control (NAC)?
Network-connected end devices remain a major cybersecurity point of vulnerability. Network Access Control (NAC) technology provides the ability to lock down network access in a way and to an extent that no other cyber [...]
What is Network Access Control?
One of the first business barometers you can use to see how important a technology solution is to your organization is demand. While there are exceptions, chances are that if the best practices of companies [...]
The Biggest Cybersecurity Threats are Coming from Inside
Whether your organization is a business or involved in government, one of the highest cost scenarios is when there is a security event that originates with an inside source like an employee or contractor. [...]
Staying Ahead of the IoT Security Curve With Reimaged NAC
The dramatic influx of IoT and other network-connected devices requires a radical new approach to management and security Download Now International Data Corp. forecasts that approximately 80 billion devices will be connected [...]
Resolving IP Conflicts and Manage IP Addresses Securely
If you manage a network, you know that sometimes things don’t always go smoothly when it comes to identifying devices. One such difficult, and somewhat common, scenario is needing to manage duplicate IP addresses. [...]
Prepare for GDPR By Fundamentally Enhancing Security Compliance with Network Access Control
Whether you’re managing IT for a small business just getting started or a major multinational corporation, there are two critical concerns that you have to meet: security and regulations. The two often go hand [...]
Protect Your Network by Identifying Rogue Access Point
Ask any kind of IT professional what their greatest challenge is and they will probably answer with “uncertainty.” Uncertainty can be caused by many things. Predicting employee behavior is nearly impossible. Often times, the [...]
Identifying Device Platforms Can Lower the Risk of Ransomware Attacks
It’s rare that situations that involve the IT community at large break through into mainstream consciousness. If you are a CIO, business owner, or network manager, every day brings challenges related to the integrity [...]
Cloud NAC is at the Forefront of Security Consumerization
The goal of every IT administrator is to not only recognize technological trends but to get out ahead of them in order to protect their company’s assets. Anyone who has worked in the IT [...]
Genian NAC Provides Incomparable Visibility into Your Network
Today, the Internet is a vast network of connections: people to people, people to devices, and devices to devices. This is a complex melting pot of security and network management challenges because of the [...]
Cloud-based Network Access Control (NAC) Unveiling at RSA 2017
RSA Conference 2017 is taking place next week at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. From February 13th-17th, a variety of companies and foundations will give presentations on the current state of security across the tech [...]
The Benefits of Having a NAC Solution Through the Cloud
Being an IT manager is all about navigating uncertainty. Needing to stay on top of the latest tools, threats, and technologies is a full-time job in and of itself, to say nothing of needing [...]
Why Cloud NAC Makes Sense for Managed Service Providers
It’s no secret that network security is a high priority subject for firms of all sizes. Whether it’s a small business with a single IT manager who wears many hats or a multinational corporation [...]