The last thing you want to do when securing your customers with network
access control (NAC) is to lock out any of their employees who don't
follow strict security procedures.
Doing so has given NAC something of a bad rap in the past, but advances
in ease of use across a range of NAC products now make it easier to
deliver secure NAC deployments that keep out the bad guys without
igniting a wave of help-desk calls from the good guys.
In an increasingly hostile cyberlandscape, advances in NAC products
bode well for the channel. In just the past three years, web threats
have increased by a whopping 1,564 percent, and unlike yesterday's
hackers who wrote malicious code for bragging rights, today's cybercriminals
are slick, well-trained professionals out to get their hands on anything
of value -- your customers' business data, private employee information
and credit card numbers.
The Right NAC, The Right Partners
Successful NAC deployments can be designed in different ways, depending
on your customers' business needs and network architectures. That's
why access to the right security hardware and software from a range
of leading-edge vendors, such as Juniper Networks, RSA Security and
Trend Micro, is important to your success.
Ingram Micro partners with the leading NAC vendors, and when you
partner with Ingram Micro, you get the products, training and support
you need to succeed in an expanding security market. With customer
bases for security products and services growing at nearly a 10-percent
clip over last year, according to the 2008 VARBusiness profitability
study, now is the time to add a NAC practice or expand your current
solution offering with the latest from Ingram Micro partners.
Count on Ingram Micro
Your customers count on you, and you can count on Ingram Micro for
a selection of proven NAC solutions. Ingram Micro offers a rich course
of programs and training that cover education, business development,
marketing and pre- and post-sales technical assistance -- all designed
with your success in mind.
Ingram Micro doesn't simply have the best solutions from the best
vendors; Ingram Micro also makes it easy to get what your customers
need when they need it. Now more than ever, your customers need security
that they can count on, and NAC is an important element of a multilayered
security defense. When you connect with the best vendor for each challenge,
your solutions are more profitable, more reliable and more attractive
to customers.
"In just the past three years, web threats have increased
by a whopping 1,564 percent."
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A Win-Win Solution
As a solution provider with clients who are currently grappling with
unwieldy communication networks, you can tap into the rapidly growing
UC market through an ecosystem of Ingram Micro. With Ingram Micro's
UC partners, such as 3Com, Castelle, Cisco, Dialogic, Jabra/GN Netcom,
IBM, MultiTech Systems, Nokia and Nortel, you can meet your customers'
demands for UC systems that streamline and simplify communications.
You can also take advantage of the Ingram Micro convergence help desk
to create a custom-fit UC solution for your clients.
