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[ news_security_news ]Cisco Microsoft Partnership Delivers InteroperabilitySecurityProNews Staff Writer 2006-09-06  Security News RSS Feed
The Security Standard conference began today in Boston, and Microsoft and Cisco demonstrated the interoperability of Cisco Network Admission Control (NAC) and Microsoft Network Access Protection (NAP). This comes as the result of a previously mentioned partnership from two years ago. As a compliment to the demonstration at the conference, Microsoft and Cisco released a white paper explaining the interoperability "for security policy enforcement and health assessment". The two companies also plan to release a limited beta program this year, which will integrate NAC and NAP. The solution will become generally available next year. Larry Greenemeier of InformationWeek writes: As these beta testers will soon find out, combined network access protection and network access control consists of several client-side software applications that check and communicate the health of laptops, desktops, and other devices attempting to connect into a given network. On the network side, Cisco routers and switches, Cisco Secure Access Control Server, Microsoft Network Policy Server, and policy servers from other vendors work together to give the thumbs up or thumbs down to any device seeking to connect. Access control systems must be able to detect connecting devices, authenticate the people using them, determine if a connecting device has the appropriate anti-virus protection and software patches, and quarantine and update systems that don't make the grade. Microsoft and Cisco appear to have these bases covered. "This is exactly what is needed in the market as businesses attempt to understand how to implement a network access control infrastructure in order to increase security amid an increasingly mobile work force and increasingly aggressive threat environment," said Yankee Group vice president of security and networking research Zeus Kerravala. "Microsoft and Cisco must work together on this, and I'm pleased to see these two companies make the investment and the engineering commitment for interoperability," added Kerravala. Though companies will be able to use the interoperable solution, Cisco and Microsoft will continue to offer their own individual solutions. Tag: Microsoft, Cisco Add to  Del.icio.us |  Digg |  Yahoo! My Web |  Furl
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