Fremont, California-based Sygate enforces endpoint security on networks and the first product from its collaboration with Aruba will be a switch-based module for checking that guest users’ devices accessing corporate networks comply with their hosts’ security policies.
The module starts at $500 for our smallest switch, the 800, and goes up into the thousands for our high-end box, the 6000, said Jon Green, product manager for the offering at Sunnyvale, California-based Aruba.
This will entail the module sending an applet down to the device when it logs onto the network to check for policy compliance and block until remediation has been carried out. Green said the verticals where Aruba sees most application for this unmanaged device control offering are education and healthcare.
Beyond that, the two companies will unveil what Aruba’s communications director David Callisch called a strategic development alliance with a view to seeing how best to implement Sygate’s core offering for managed devices, i.e. those that a corporation actually owns.
In the wired world, this entails each device carrying a Sygate Secure Enterprise client, and Green said Aruba is looking at over-the-air installation and running of these clients.
