IDN Functional Diagram

Why Identity Driven Networking (IDN)?

The growing pressures of compliance and accountability are driving IT managers to align people’s role(s) and responsibilities with more personalized network control.

The challenge, however, is how to translate and enforce users’ responsibilities, which can change several times throughout the day, into policies operating in complex network environments. In other words, who gets access to what, from where and when, and importantly, once access is permitted, how should the resources be utilized?

Blue Reef’s platform is built around role-based Access Control & Network Enforcement, a new paradigm that builds access and security protocols around users, rather than the organization.

Blue Reef’s IDN gateway appliance products utilize customers’ existing Identity Management infrastructures (such as LDAP directory services), building onto them the capacity for administrators to easily and quickly create network access policies reflecting user requirements at different times of the day and from different locations.

This helps enterprises allocate appropriate network resources – as needed for e-collaboration, information sharing, open learning, mobile workers or e-commerce applications – according to identity-based rules, which importantly, are dynamically enforced at the network level.

As a result, Blue Reef customers need less network infrastructure and fewer administrators to manage their networks, while gaining greater network control, compliance and visibility. This translates to a better bottom line – through reduced capital expenditure and less ongoing management, provisioning, training and support