Secure Authentication Solutions
Foundry's network products have been validated with the best of breed authentication solutions, including those based on Radius, Windows login, and other popular authentication techniques. Foundry is committeed to supporting the most popular industry standard authentication solutions, and validating that our network, security, and traffic management solutions can work seamlessly in our customers environment.
Overview
Foundry's IronShield 360 Security provides support for a variety of authentication mechanisms that serve the needs of a variety of different organizations. This includes Radius based 802.1x, MAC, and web authentication. Foundry's Layer 2 and 3 switches and routers have been tested for interoperability, scalability, and reliability with a number of best-of-breed Radius server implementations, including Microsoft's Internet Authentication Server (IAS) and Windows supplicant, Funk Software's Steel Belted Radius (SBR) and Odyssey Client, the open source FreeRadius product, Cisco's Access Control Server (ACS), Radiator, and Infoblox.
Foundry's edge products can support simultaneous authentication mechanisms on a per port basis. This allows for converged endpoint security and authentication in the case where multiple users are on the same port, or a client PC shares a port with an IP phone or multi-media device.
Foundry web authentication support provides security for sites that may not control the end hosts, or have a multitude of different OS types. This is ideal for university and hotspot environments that need to protect network access but cannot place supplicants on the end clients.
Together with the best-of-breed Radius vendor solutions, Foundry provides support for the industry's most well known authentication techniques. This allows customers to choose the authentication technique and vendor that best suits their needs and does not lock customers into proprietary solutions.
Related Products
Foundry Networks provides a range of security solutions and partners that assist customers in building highly secure networking environments. These security solutions revolve around our award winning L2-3 switches and routers, wireless access points and switches, L4-7 traffic management solutions, and our L2-7 security products.
Literature
White Papers
- Deploying MAC Authentication with Microsoft Internet Authentication Service (RADIUS) (PDF 917K)
- Using IEEE 802.1x to Enhance Network Security (PDF 178K)
- Web Authentication Demonstration Guide (PDF 2.6M)
- 802.1x Authentication & FreeRadius (PDF 72K)
- 802.1x Authentication & EAP (PDF 193K)
- 802.1x Port Authentication and LDAP (PDF 1.1M)
- 802.1x Port Authentication with MS Active Directory (PDF 1.4M)
- Multi-Device Port Authentication with MS IAS and Active Directory (PDF 2.2M)
Security Partners
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