Businesses often encounter confusion before choosing wireless certification systems: many of the functions are written in the product manual, but what exactly these things correspond to, whether they can solve their own problems or not.
Several core competencies are broken down below, organized in accordance with the actual concerns of the enterprise without a list of functions.
Certification method: Not as many as possible, but right?
The way an enterprise can be certified with wireless certification systems is typically: text message authentication, Portal page certification, 802.1X, cable WEB certification, AD/LDAP interface, business micro-letters/creaking. There are many, but the combinations are different for enterprises of different sizes and security levels.
Most common use of Portal certification by SMEs——The user enters the account password in the browser, experiences visualization and deploys it easily.
For companies with waiting requirements, 802.1X is standard practice for matching AD domain certification. Each access terminal has a digital certificate, network and identity double-checking, high security level, but requires user-to-client collaboration, some of which are not low deployment costs.
When selecting a model, it is recommended that you define your security level and see which combination of authentication methods will satisfy."Support 12 forms of certification"That figure is confusing and useful, not equal to nothing.
Account management: can we get through to the existing system?
The number of the account in the authentication system would be more expensive to carry on-line if IT were maintained manually, with HR systems, door block systems and OA systems.
A good certification system should be able to interface with existing systems: staff members automatically create network accounts on entry and exit, and visitors send temporary accounts that are out of time and are recovered automatically without manual clean-up.
This capability is particularly critical in a fast-moving chain of businesses. I've seen a catering chain with 30 or 40 people per door, and monthly staff changes by 20 or 30 times. If the account numbers are maintained manually, this item alone will take up one full-time IT working time.
Strategy hierarchy: different people take different channels
Business wireless certification systems generally support role-based strategies for access: the upper and lower bandwidth limits, online time frames, accessible resource ranges and whether to allow shared hot spots.
The easiest problem to come from the actual project is that employees and visitors use the same strategy, or it's divided but not made effective."Visitors limit"It's become empty.
The logic of the strategy configuration is to correspond to the organizational structure: headquarters staff have wide access and branches are restricted; regular staff use high-speed channels and visitors follow low speed routes; a single set of strategies for conference room areas, which automatically takes effect when they meet.
Once this logic is put together, daily operations are less costly and no temporary reconfiguration is required.
Log and retrospective: Can we find someone?
This is the most direct compliance requirement. The logs of the certification system are required to record at least who (account number), when, from which end-point access and what resources are accessed.
Enterprises with waiting requirements also have to see if the system can be connected to third-party auditing systems and whether the data format is in line with public security regulations.
The actual item is easily overlooked by the log storage cycle. Some systems certification logs are kept for only one month, but compliance requirements are more than six months.
Transporting convenience: IT is not working
The authentication system is not online, and the next day's transport is dominated by a few of the following:
- The employee password forgot. Can you help us find it or do we always have to get IT in?
- New staff member on duty, can we get a batch of numbers or do you want to add one manually?
- There's a problem. Is there a clear log to check, or is it just an empirical guess?
- Is the backstage interface enough to be intuitive?
These details are easily ignored during the selection phase, and costs are discovered only after being online. It is suggested that those actually responsible for carrying the carrier should be tested at the POC stage and feel much more real than reading the product manual.
Impact of deployment mode on later shipments
The selection phase also requires early confirmation: whether the system is locally or cloud-based, with significant implications for later wiring.
Locally deployed systems require their own maintenance of servers, system upgrades, database backups, log clean-up, and so on. The advantage is that the data are on its own side and the security-intensive political units usually prefer this model.
The advantage of cloud-side deployment is that it is not maintained, and the vendor is responsible for upgrading and backup. The bad news is that all traffic and account data are on cloud-end, confirming whether the vendor’s data security measures meet business requirements.
The most important value of a Wireless certification system is not what function is strong, but whether it can be linked to your existing network architecture, personnel management systems, and wiring processes.