College and university IT departments today contend with thousands of devices, most of them student-owned, which create a huge demand for ­network services.

“You can’t treat unknown users who walk onto campus with foreign devices the same way that you treat a faculty member or student using a college-approved device,” says Scott McCollum, CIO at Dayton, Ohio’s Sinclair Community College.

McCollum must balance the assumption that he will provide reliable network access to the college’s 23,000-plus students with guaranteeing the network is secure.

His team works with a suite of Enterasys products — including Enterasys ­Network Access Control and Enterasys Policy Manager — to ensure that faculty, students and guests don’t just gain access, but that they gain the proper access.

Mobile access management (MAM) — or, often, mobile identity and access management (IAM), so as not to be confused with mobile application management — helps to ensure network security in part by identifying devices, users and operating systems.

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