Check Point Software Technologies Ltd has introduced what it claims is the industry’s first User to Address Mapping (UAM) technology. A product of Check Point’s 1998 merger with MetaInfo, UAM matches user identities to dynamically assigned IP addresses, eliminating the main obstacle to enforcing user access policies.
Once you identify users in a dynamic environment, you can then implement user-based security and traffic control policies, explains Asheem Chandra, VP of marketing and business development. With UAM, administrators should be able to assign network privileges to users, rather than machines. That makes it easier to monitor excessive internet usage, identify the instigators of security violations and trace errant or unauthorized IP addresses. UAM is built into Check Point’s Meta IP 4.1, priced from $445 for 100 nodes.
