[65254] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cisco, Anti-virus Vendors Team on Network Security
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandon Butterworth)
Tue Nov 18 17:30:05 2003
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 22:29:20 GMT
From: Brandon Butterworth <brandon@rd.bbc.co.uk>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> Cisco has licensed its Cisco
> Trust Agent technology to Network Associates, Symantec and Trend Micro so
>
> 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.
Sounds of limited use anyway, the OS that can use it seem to be more
usually wormed/virused that the OS than can't (regardless of the add on
security products).
brandon
