[65253] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cisco, Anti-virus Vendors Team on Network Security
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Tue Nov 18 16:34:14 2003
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 23:32:51 +0200
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0311181501230.13453-100000@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
This looks suspiciously similar to the solution Nokia announced a few
weeks ago, though
it was based on a java application, not sure how platform dependent it was.
Pete
Sean Donelan wrote:
>As part of Cisco's Self-Defending Network Initiave Cisco has announced a
>new product which relies on "the Cisco Network Admission Control program
>is innovative software developed by Cisco called the Cisco Trust Agent
>which resides on an endpoint system and communicates with the Cisco
>network. The Cisco Trust Agent collects security state information from
>multiple security software clients, such as anti-virus clients, and
>communicates this information to the connected Cisco network where access
>control decisions are made and enforced. Cisco has licensed its Cisco
>Trust Agent technology to Network Associates, Symantec and Trend Micro so
>it can be integrated with their security software client products."
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>Currently the Cisco NAC software only works with Cisco network equipment
>and Microsoft Windows NT, XP and 2000 operating systems.
>
>Without the secret handshake Mac OS, Linux, Solaris and other operating
>systems will not be able to connect to a Cisco Self-Defending Network
>which limits its usefullness for ISPs.
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