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Round Rock ISD on Mirage Networks

“With our small network IT staff, it is essential that we have an automated solution to stop worms that get past perimeter defenses. With the Mirage Networks solution, instead of 200 or 300 systems to clean up, we’ll only have the initial infection point, which will remain contained until we have the time to remediate that system.”

-- Dan Scott, Senior Systems Engineer, Round Rock ISD

Customer Profile - Round Rock Independent School District (ISD) is a school district headquartered in the city of Round Rock, Texas, United States. As of 2007, the school district served 39,079 students and includes all of Round Rock, northwestern portions of the City of Austin, and unincorporated portions of Williamson and Travis counties (including Anderson Mill).

Vendor Profile - Mirage Networks, Inc. is the leading provider of Network Access Control (NAC) solutions, including both pre- and post-admission security. The company’s patented technology gives organizations control over unknown, out-of-policy, and infected devices resulting in increased network uptime, policy compliance, and reduced operational costs. Mirage’s NAC appliances work in all network environments, deploy out-of-band, and require neither signatures nor agents to enforce policies and terminate zero-day threats. Based in Austin, Texas, Mirage Networks Endpoint Control is a consistent winner of industry awards and recognition.

Challenge:

Despite firewalls and intrusion detection systems, Round Rock ISD was unable to stop rapidly propagating threats across a state-of-the-art network serving nearly 40,000 users.

Solution:

Mirage NAC immediately stopped the threats without signatures or agents. Additionally, the solution uncovered network abuses arising from incomplete firewall rules and misconfigured PCs.

Benefits:

» Reduced network outages resulting from widespread worm infections
» Saved hundreds of hours of cleanup on infected endpoint devices
» Within 30 minutes of installation, identified unknown holes in firewalls

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Merced Superior Court on Mirage Networks

“I cannot begin to thank … all of the people who assisted me, (including) the great people at Mirage, who installed their Mirage NAC appliance and just ROCKED those hackers & viruses. Their device, to say the least, is just amazing, and scary in how good it worked.”

-- Tony Ortiz, Court IT Manager, Merced Superior Court

Customer Profile - Each of California's 58 counties has its own superior court, which adds up to a total of 58 Superior Courts of California. The Superior Courts have general jurisdiction over all civil and criminal matters, with the exception of certain limited areas like workers' compensation where original jurisdiction is reserved by statute to government agencies. Merced County is a county located in the Central Valley of the U.S. state of California, north of Fresno and southeast of San Jose. As of 2000 the population was 210,554. The county is named after the Merced River.

Vendor Profile - Mirage Networks, Inc. is the leading provider of Network Access Control (NAC) solutions, including both pre- and post-admission security. The company’s patented technology gives organizations control over unknown, out-of-policy, and infected devices resulting in increased network uptime, policy compliance, and reduced operational costs. Mirage’s NAC appliances work in all network environments, deploy out-of-band, and require neither signatures nor agents to enforce policies and terminate zero-day threats. Based in Austin, Texas, Mirage Networks Endpoint Control is a consistent winner of industry awards and recognition.

Challenge:

The Superior Court of Merced County’s network was down for one week due to a worm attack. Solutions from McAfee, Cisco, and Symantec did not solve the problem.

Solution:

Within one hour of installation, Mirage NAC resolved the network outage and stopped the spread of Sasser variants, enabling LAN segments to return to normal.

Benefits:

» Significantly reduced network downtime by preventing worm propagation
» Reduced IT workload due to ease of deployment and maintenance
» Delivered immediate time-to-value with out-of-the-box effectiveness

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Penn State on Mirage Networks

“Managing each endpoint individually simply isn’t a realistic objective. That’s why a network-based solution makes sense — and why we selected Mirage NAC … Mirage NAC gives us the ability to both watch network traffic and take action when an offending device is identified.”

-- Kathy Kimball, Director of Computer & Network Security, Penn State University

Customer Profile - The Pennsylvania State University (commonly known as Penn State) is a state-related, land-grant university. The University has 24 campuses throughout the U.S. State of Pennsylvania, including a virtual World Campus. The enrollment at Penn State is over 84,000 students, placing it among the ten largest public universities in the United States. Penn State offers more than 160 majors and administers a $1.4 billion (USD) endowment.

Vendor Profile - Mirage Networks, Inc. is the leading provider of Network Access Control (NAC) solutions, including both pre- and post-admission security. The company’s patented technology gives organizations control over unknown, out-of-policy, and infected devices resulting in increased network uptime, policy compliance, and reduced operational costs. Mirage’s NAC appliances work in all network environments, deploy out-of-band, and require neither signatures nor agents to enforce policies and terminate zero-day threats. Based in Austin, Texas, Mirage Networks Endpoint Control is a consistent winner of industry awards and recognition.

Challenge:

With tens of thousands of students and staff on their network, Penn State was constantly battling malware infections introduced by unmanaged devices.

Solution:

Mirage NAC provides a highly manageable and efficient way to isolate offending devices and protect the network, without requiring the management of thousands of individual endpoints.

Benefits:

» High level of security without rearchitecting existing infrastructure or deploying agents to thousands of endpoints
» Protection for all devices and operating systems for highly heterogeneous environment
» Low TCO and immediate time-to-value

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Health Access Solutions on Mirage Networks

“We were looking for a managed solution and wanted to leverage our existing network service account with SBC/AT&T. We were introduced to Mirage Networks by SBC/AT&T, a major channel partner of Mirage Networks. After considering other vendors, as well as an in-house solution, we ultimately determined that the Mirage network-based approach to endpoint control would be the most effective and reliable solution to meet our continuing security requirements.”

-- Gary D’amato, Systems Manager, Health Access Solutions

Customer Profile - Health Access Solutions (HAS) is a leading application service provider located in Foster City, California. HAS is the software marketing division of Pacific Partners Management Services, Inc. (PPMSI). Their Access Express™ system distributes patient demographic and clinical information to more than 13,000 physicians affiliated with hospitals, medical groups, and health plans. Access Express software manages and automates managed care referrals, communication, and care for more than 1.8 million HMO and Medicare patients. Health Access Solutions’ healthcare technology team has worked together for years to develop a streamlined information technology and management strategy.

Vendor Profile - Mirage Networks, Inc. is the leading provider of Network Access Control (NAC) solutions, including both pre- and post-admission security. The company’s patented technology gives organizations control over unknown, out-of-policy, and infected devices resulting in increased network uptime, policy compliance, and reduced operational costs. Mirage’s NAC appliances work in all network environments, deploy out-of-band, and require neither signatures nor agents to enforce policies and terminate zero-day threats. Based in Austin, Texas, Mirage Networks Endpoint Control is a consistent winner of industry awards and recognition.

Mirage Networks has the only patented NAC solution that:

• Is agentless—requires no agent software to effectively defend against malware attacks
• Enforces surgical isolation—devices can be completely isolated, or granular access can be granted based on the device or the infraction
• Deploys out-of-band—no network re-architecture, no single point of failure
• Is infrastructure independent—The Mirage solution integrates with all networks, all devices, and all operating systems

National Instruments on Mirage Networks

“We have realized immediate value in combining both solutions. Through tight integration, we now get an enterprise view of security information from all of our IBM ISS and Mirage products with endpoint state, threat posture, and policy compliance for both managed and unmanaged devices from a single source.”

-- Brett Childress, Director of IT Infrastructure, National Instruments

Customer Profile - National Instruments is a technology pioneer and leader in virtual instrumentation, a revolutionary concept that has changed the way engineers and scientists in industry, government and academia approach measurement and automation. Leveraging PCs and commercial technologies, virtual instrumentation increases productivity and lowers costs for test, control and design applications through easy-to integrate software, such as NI LabVIEW, and modular measurement and control hardware for PXI, PCI, USB and Ethernet. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, National Instruments has more than 4,000 employees and direct operations in nearly 40 countries. For the past seven years, FORTUNE magazine has named NI one of the 100 best companies to work for in America.

Vendor Profile - Mirage Networks, Inc. is the leading provider of Network Access Control (NAC) solutions, including both pre- and post-admission security. The company’s patented technology gives organizations control over unknown, out-of-policy, and infected devices resulting in increased network uptime, policy compliance, and reduced operational costs. Mirage’s NAC appliances work in all network environments, deploy out-of-band, and require neither signatures nor agents to enforce policies and terminate zero-day threats. Based in Austin, Texas, Mirage Networks Endpoint Control is a consistent winner of industry awards and recognition.

National Instruments, a global technology pioneer and leader in virtual instrumentation, implemented Network Access Control (NAC) from Mirage Networks® to protect its networks from day-zero worms and viruses and other rapidly propagating threats.

Business Challenges:

» Maintain network integrity and availability, and protect employee productivity
» Secure network from day-zero worms and other threats, from 6,000+ endpoints across multiple operating systems
» Accomplish the above while lessening impact on IT resources

Security Solution:

» Deploy Mirage Network Access Control on corporate campus network
» Roll out deployment in European and Asia-Pacific offices

Business Value:

» Reduction in operational costs and lost productivity due to virus outbreaks
» Reduction in IT workload due to easy deployment and maintenance
» ROI of up to 122% over 3 years, not including intangibles such as opportunity cost

Mount Sinai Hospital on Mirage Networks

“We simply have too much to lose – Mount Sinai’s stellar reputation, HIPAA regulations, and the availability of point-of-care equipment that improves our patients’ outcomes, it can all come down to IT security. No other solution we looked at provided both the effectiveness and the flexibility we required to find and stop threats on all devices, even the hard-to-manage mobile machines. It’s working so well, at this point, I honestly don’t know what we’d do without it.”

-- Peter Ingram, Chief Information Officer, Mount Sinai Hospital

Customer Profile - Mount Sinai Hospital is a 432-bed teaching, research and tertiary-care facility, and is a member of Sinai Health System, along with Schwab Rehabilitation Hospital, Sinai Community Institute, Sinai Medical Group and Sinai HealthFirst. Founded in 1919 as a 60-bed hospital to serve needy Eastern European immigrants and to train Jewish physicians denied educational opportunities elsewhere, Mount Sinai today serves a predominantly African-American and Latino community with vigor and dedication that have grown stronger through the years. Mount Sinai's quality medical offerings include a Level I trauma center; community-based primary care; a child-abuse diagnosis, treatment and prevention unit; and a high-risk maternity and infant intensive-care program (Level III perinatal center). Mount Sinai employs 2,000+ employees and is a major teaching hospital for the Chicago area, currently training more than 300 health professionals each year through programs in undergraduate and graduate medical education, allied health and continuing education for physicians and nurses.

Vendor Profile - Mirage Networks, Inc. is the leading provider of Network Access Control (NAC) solutions, including both pre- and post-admission security. The company’s patented technology gives organizations control over unknown, out-of-policy, and infected devices resulting in increased network uptime, policy compliance, and reduced operational costs. Mirage’s NAC appliances work in all network environments, deploy out-of-band, and require neither signatures nor agents to enforce policies and terminate zero-day threats. Based in Austin, Texas, Mirage Networks Endpoint Control is a consistent winner of industry awards and recognition.

Customer Challenges:

• Prevent threats from devices with embedded OSs with slow patch availability
• Secure from reconnaissance while allowing server-level access to third parties
• Address HIPAA regulations requiring the security of personal patient information

Mirage Solution:

• Controls network access to keep third parties within authorized areas
• Catches threats behaviorally to ensure security before patches are available
• Helps prevents authorized users from gaining unauthorized access to HIPAA specified protected health information

Business Values:

• Ensures maximum network uptime and availability for excellent patient care
• Keeps patient data confidential to meet HIPAA regulations
• Lessens drain on IT resources to increase productivity