TheLowDown Monthly Newsletter            September 2007

Cisco's Network Admission Control Power Broadens

"New Network Module for Cisco Integrated Services Router Provides Exceptional Security for Branch Offices"

Cisco is introducing a new Integrated Services Router (ISR), a Network Admission Control (NAC), and it broadens the scope and power for businesses throughout the world. It is a sophisticated solution for modular security.

"It protects businesses by authenticating, authorizing, evaluating and remediating remote user machines connected via wired or wireless links, prior to granting them access to corporate networks. Designed for branch offices, the NAC Network Module for the Integrated Services Routers resolves potential threats and vulnerabilities locally before they are transferred over the wide-area network (WAN), helping to prevent them from affecting the broader corporate network. With this latest addition, Cisco helps the information technology (IT) department meet security compliance requirements and reduces network complexity, IT staff training time and maintenance costs" (Cisco News).

"Its addition of endpoint profiler sweetens the pot. For example, aside from streamlining our management, the NAC-ISR module allows us to concentrate our security efforts within the network itself. It gives us an opportunity to offer our customers more synergy between their network and security as well. . . The module enforces security policies on all networked devices, whether they are owned by the corporation, employees, contractors, or guests, and whether they connect via wired, wireless, or remote connectivity. These devices can include Windows, Mac, and Linux machines, laptops, desktops, personal digital assistants, printers, IP phones, and more. . . Profiler strengthens IT's ability to protect users and devices without adding another server. Cisco is broadening and deepening the capability that IT has to protect its business, employees, and information" (Cisco News).

"We use the Cisco Endpoint Profiler because the pre- and post-admission visibility and understanding it provides is pivotal in enabling us to effectively manage network access for employees, visitors, and the myriad devices we see in our healthcare environment," said Eric Johnson, IT project manager at Baylor College of Medicine.

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