New wireless security and Macintosh features in Napera 1.2

Last week we announced our new 1.2 release, which is available now to all customers.

An exciting new feature is integration of robust Wi-Fi authentication into the Napera product line. You can now use your new or existing 802.11 wireless access points with WPA/WPA2 Enterprise encryption, and simply point them at your Napera N24 to handle all authentication. This enables you to securely use any access point for both employees and guests, and to move away from the inferior security and shared passwords of WEP or WPA Personal encryption.

With our 1.2 release, the Napera N24 will use WPA Enterprise to authenticate Wi-Fi users against Active Directory and enable you to create local guest user accounts. The Napera N24 handles all of the RADIUS processing required for WPA Enterprise with the minimum of fuss and without the work that usually goes into such a deployment.  On MyNapera.com, go to the Configuration tab, look for Wi-Fi under Authentication and define a shared secret, then configure the access point for WPA Enterprise and you are off and running with the best possible Wi-Fi security!

For our Macintosh customers, we’ve also added a number of new features to the Napera Health Agent for Mac OS X which bring it closer to the functionality of the Microsoft NAP agent on Windows. The Mac agent now alerts the user to health conditions without them having to open a browser, and we provide remediation for specific Mac health conditions.

You can update to release 1.2 from your dashboard on MyNapera.com by selecting ‘Software Update’. We plan to continue an aggressive software development schedule with new features delivered via MyNapera.com every two to three months.