How Governments can Successfully Employ a Mobile Workforce

When trying to go mobile, governments can struggle with the security challenges that come with it. While they continue to wrestle with the risks introduced by mobility, employees don’t stop demanding access for more devices. To make everyone happy, network and security teams must align to ensure essential services are available and security policies are abided by.

To overcome some of these challenges, enterprise mobility solutions may be used to mitigate risks. However, they can lead to limited controls and added complexity. Loose integration between solutions also makes it difficult for an IT team to identify and react to the evolving and changing needs of a mobile workforce.

An Enterprise Mobility Solution that Works for Government

Your mobility issues can be solved with Aruba Adaptive Trust. The Aruba Adaptive Trust shares data across secure network solutions to completely eliminate possible security gaps. What results is a coordinated defense where all security components work together as one integrated system.

A government body can use it to address today’s access security challenges such as device compliance. You need all employee devices to meet security and posture guidelines before they connect to your wireless network. This solution can help enforce security policies. Devices that aren’t in compliance can be denied access or be required to remediate.

Data can also be relayed with mobility work management, intrusion prevention systems, network firewalls, and other security solutions. The glue that makes it all work consists of common representation state transfer APIs and Syslog-type data feeds.

The best thing about the Aruba Adaptive Trust is that it lets government IT make smarter decisions about how employees and devices connect and how their access privileges are enforced. A centralized policy enforcement engine acts as a central nervous system for all things connecting to the network.

How Does the Aruba Adaptive Trust Work?

The ClearPass Access Management System provides the foundation for the Aruba Adaptive Trust defense model. It gives IT central control and mobile security enforcement based on employee roles and real-time information on any multivendor network.

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ClearPass delivers secure mobility by integrating policy management with AAA, secure onboarding, device health checks, guest network access, and other self-service capabilities—all from one platform.

The enterprise mobility solution offers a wide range of features that enable secure mobility including enhanced visibility and enforcement. It profiles each device as it connects to the wireless network, providing information that can be used in policies and for troubleshooting. It manages separate VLANs to enforce network privileges based on traffic types and automatically directs employees to appropriate network segments by leveraging roles, contextual data, and traffic types.

The ClearPass solution addresses the needs of the forever-changing policy landscape and replaces point solutions with a thorough and secure policy management system. This system lowers capex and opex while allowing IT to create detailed security policies.

What results is a dynamic and robust solution that easily adapts network and security functions to the mobile needs of employees, allowing enterprise organizations to quickly tackle a wide range of common mobility challenges. This enterprise mobility solution is a must-have for a mobile government workforce.

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