In recent years, the popularization of wireless LANs and mobile PCs has made computing more convenient than ever. The portability and ease of use of today's devices means that not only employees of a company, but also people from outside a company can bring their own PCs into an office and easily access that company's intranet. The ease of bringing an unauthorized PC into a company and connecting to the intranet raises many problems. For example, employees might deliberately take corporate information out of the office, or an information leak might go unnoticed by the company. Measures to prevent such incidents are now being sought.
If a company can constantly monitor its intranet, even one comprising a vast number of PCs spread throughout an office, and promptly detect when an unauthorized PC has been connected, the intranet can be protected and information leaks prevented.
JP1/Network Monitor allows you to do just that. It provides 24-hour monitoring of your company's intranet, automatically cutting off access to any unauthorized connections it detects, thereby protecting your company's network and the important data contained within.
Installation and maintenance are easy because there is no need to install dedicated software to client PCs.
By constantly monitoring the intranet, JP1/Network Monitor immediately detects the connection of any unauthorized PC and automatically excludes it from the intranet, preventing unauthorized access. Since JP1/Network Monitor pinpoints and excludes only unauthorized PCs, it does not affect legitimate communication on the network.
Furthermore, JP1/Network Monitor allows you to manually grant or deny connection permissions, even for authorized PCs on the network. With this function, you can perform security measures such as temporarily isolating a PC with insufficient virus protection from the rest of the network and re-granting permission after the protection is made sufficient.
JP1/Network Monitor supports both fixed IP addresses and DHCP automatic IP addresses, allowing you to use its monitoring and exclusion functions regardless of the address system your network uses.
JP1/Network Monitor even supports wireless LAN, HUB, and switch environments. Furthermore, in a system environment that has been set up using VLAN tagging (IEEE 802.1Q), a single JP1/Network Monitor can be used to monitor multiple sub-networks. Since JP1/Network Monitor does not need any special equipment for monitoring and can be used on your pre-existing network, we recommend JP1/Network Monitor to customers who want an easy-to-install and easy-to-use security system for their company's intranet.
Using JP1/Network Monitor in conjunction with JP1/Client Security Control and JP1/Software Distribution enables you to automatic isolate from the intranet client PCs that do not have updated virus protection, lack an important security patch, or in any way violate your company's security policy. Although a PC that has been isolated from a network cannot communicate with other servers on that network, it is still granted the ability to communicate with the remedy server for inspection and treatment purposes. It is therefore possible, by using JP1/Network Monitor in conjunction with other JP1 products, to expand your security system into a complete quarantine system that covers all tasks from isolation to treatment.
