Avenda Systems delivers next generation, comprehensive, end-to-end trust and identity policy solutions for enterprises. Avenda solutions enable enterprises to securely manage who has access to network resources, how and under what conditions that access can occur, and the level of that access. The focus is on helping enterprises to proactively and reactively secure their networks and resources from threats. The solution leverages standard and vendor-defined NAC architectures designed to take advantage of embedded security features in network and server infrastructure, thus providing comprehensive and flexible policy control by assessing all endpoints across all access methods. Avenda solutions are designed to interoperate with Cisco’s NAC, Microsoft’s NAP and TCG’s TNC frameworks.

Avenda Systems is a Silicon Valley start-up with operations in Santa Clara, California and Bangalore, India.

Background

Avenda Systems was founded in 2005 by a strong engineering team with an excellent track record in network and security management.  Through their customer interactions, research and own experience they understood the need for a consistent, coherent and scalable security policy management solution for network and resource access control. They also understood the power of leveraging embedded security capabilities within system and network infrastructure elements to protect the network. They saw an opportunity to deliver a comprehensive, end-to-end trust and identity policy platform for enterprises.

Mission

The mission of Avenda Systems is to provide enterprises with comprehensive, highly scalable and high-performance trust and identity policy solutions that use embedded capabilities in existing enterprise network and server infrastructure, identity stores and threat mitigation technologies.  

Our value proposition is that we build a comprehensive and unified policy management solution for network and resource access control. The solution is comprehensive in features, easy to deploy and use, scalable, and supports multi-vendor network and server infrastructure. Furthermore, the solution seamlessly works with multiple NAC frameworks and uses embedded capabilities in existing network and system infrastructure, identity stores and threat mitigation technologies, with no network infrastructure upgrades required.

Simply put, our value proposition is that we provide the policy management solution that lets enterprises implement a policy-driven trusted and secure network using existing single or multi-vendor infrastructure.