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Meraki Network Access Control
Wireless Client Compliance Enforcement
Integrated Access Control
Meraki Network Access Control provides powerful endpoint compliance
assessment and enforcement capabilities to administrators without
requiring any additional hardware, software or licenses. Wireless
clients are evaluated to determine whether they are protected by anti-
virus software. Compliant clients are then allowed onto the network
while others sent to a quarantine and remediation area. Unlike many
NAC solutions, no LAN reconfiguration or integration is required.
Key Benefits:
• One-click installation
• Easy, scalable management across 1000s of sites
• No VLAN reconfiguration or client agent installation
When clients connect to a Meraki network with NAC enabled, their browser
• Touchless client remediation runs a Java applet to determine if they are compliant with security policies.
• No new hardware or software required
• Included with the Meraki Enterprise license
Today’s Open Network Bring New Challenges Automated Compliance Assessment and Remediation
Consumer devices are appearing in business environments as a result of Devices that connect to your network are quarantined behind a captive
workers bringing in devices from their home. In addition, IT administrators portal using the stateful firewall in each AP. They are then be scanned
are now expected to offer secure wireless access untrusted visitor devices. by a dissolving agent to check that anti-virus software is installed and
Even trusted users can unintentionally introduce viruses into a corporate running. If found to be compliant, the user is then allowed onto the
environment, wreaking havoc on network infrastructure and requiring days network and their device is whitelisted for a specified time period before
or even weeks to recover. As a result of these threats, effective network a rescan is required. If found to be non-compliant, they are redirected
access control has become essential to protect today’s modern, open to a remediation site, which is either a Meraki default splash page that
enterprise network. Meraki Network Access Control offers administrators allows them to download free anti-virus software, an internal corporate
a simple, no-hassle means to ensure their network is protected. site where anti-virus software is hosted, or a public URL in a walled
garden such as mcafee.com where clients can download the desired
Deploy Across Multiple Sites in Minutes
anti-virus software. Once remediated, clients are rescanned and given
access to the network.
Complete User and Device Visibiility and Control
Combined with the endpoint posture assessment and enforcement
Most traditional NAC products require installation of expensive of Meraki Network Access Control, the Meraki Dashboard offers full
hardware appliances, servers, and software and are complex to deploy device and user visibility and control across your entire network. Device
and manage. Often, products that perform well at the pilot stage turn and OS fingerprinting, traffic analysis, detailed event logging, and
out to be unscalable in a production deployment, requiring weeks to summary reports offer drill-down visiblity into who is using your network
deploy and the assistance of expensive third party installers. Meraki’s and how. Enterprise-grade authentication, application-aware traffic
Network Access Control does not require any new hardware or software shaping, content filtering, and guest account management provide
to be installed in your network and can be enabled through one-click per administrators granular access control and powerful tools to manage
SSID. No per user or per device licensing is required. exactly how the network is used.
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Meraki, Inc.Inc. 660 Alabama St.,Floor,
Island St. 2 nd SanSan
Francisco, CA94103
Francisco, CA | 415.632.5800
94110| 415.632. | www.meraki.com
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Specifications
> Anti-Virus Software Compatibility
Leading anti-virus software including:
• Avast! Anti-Virus
• AVG Anti-Virus
• Avira AntiVir
• ESET NOD32 Anti-Virus
• Kaspersky Anti-Virus
• Lightspeed Anti-Virus
• McAfee Total Protection
• Microsoft Security Essentials
• Norton Anti-Virus
• Panda Security
• Sophos Anti-Virus
• Sunbelt VIPRE Anti-Virus
• Symantec Endpoint Protection
• Trend Micro OfficeScan
• New anti-virus software fingerprints
added from the Meraki Cloud Controller
> Client Compatibility
• Scanned operating systems: Windows XP, 7 and Vista
• All other operating systems are whitelisted
> Other Features
• Works with any LAN infrastructure
• Dissolving agent requires no client software installation
• Self-remediation with no administrator intervention required
> Ordering Information
• Available on all Meraki Enterprise networks at no additional cost
• No per user or per device licensing required
Meraki, | 99| Rhode
Meraki, Inc.Inc. 660 Alabama St.,Floor,
Island St. 2 nd SanSan
Francisco, CA94103
Francisco, CA | 415.632.5800
94110| 415.632. | www.meraki.com
5800 | www.meraki.com
