Open source NAC PacketFence 4.0 released

PacketFence is a fully supported, trusted, free and open source NAC solution.

Among the features provided by PacketFence, there are:

• BYOD workflows
• Guests management
• Multiple enforcement methods including Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
• Compliance checks for computers present on your network
• Integration with various vulnerability scanners and intrusion detection solutions
• Bandwidth accounting for all devices.

PacketFence 4.0 boosts several new features:

• Brand new Perl-based Web administrative interface using the Catalyst framework
• New violation actions to set the node’s role and deregister it
• Support for scanning dot1x connections for auto-registration by EAP-Type
• Support for auto registering dot1x node based of the EAP-Type
• New searchable MAC Addresses module to query all existing OUI prefixes
• New advanced search capabilities for nodes and users
• New memory object caching subsystem for configuration files
• Ubuntu packages.

Enhancements:

• Authentication sources can now be managed directly from the GUI
• Roles (previously called categories) are now computed dynamically using authentication sources
• Portal profiles and portal pages are now managed from the GUI
• Fingerprints and User Agents modules are now searchable
• Translated all remediation pages to French
• Updated Brazilian Portuguese and Spanish translations.