Cisco, Microsoft bridge security gap
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Cisco Systems and Microsoft have announced a collaborative effort designed to bridge a divide between their emerging network access-control architectures.
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A new standard aims to help users pass information between Web services without sharing full access to their identities.
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Cisco Systems and Microsoft&#39;s partnership in the small and midsize business market is bearing fruit. On Monday, Cisco announced a new software product that will link its voice over Internet protocol products
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August 23, 2004 -  - Cisco Systems, Inc. (www.cisco.com) today announced, with the support of Microsoft, the Cisco Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Communications Connector developed for Microsoft Business Solutions CRM.
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Fujitsu Limited and Cisco Systems, Inc. today announced that they have reached a fundamental agreement to enter into a strategic alliance focusing on routers and switches that will enable service providers
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LONDON - Cisco Systems and Fujitsu Limited are to collaborate on the development of high end routers and switches and support each other&#39;s products, initially in the Japanese market.
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In an effort to integrate its IP-based communications products with Microsoft customer relationship management software, Cisco Systems today announced the Cisco CRM Communications Connector.
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InfoWorld - Cisco Systems&#160;has&#160;expanded&#160;a&#160;range of security mechanisms for wired LANs&#160;to the&#160;wireless side of enterprise networks.
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(InfoWorld) - Cisco SystemsÂ hasÂ expandedÂ aÂ range of security mechanisms for wired LANsÂ to theÂ wireless side of enterprise networks. The dominant LAN vendorÂ announceedÂ on Wednesday itÂ had upgraded its software and launched a set of guidelines for integrating wired and wireless security, called the Cisco Secure Wireless Solution. The new capabilities are available to any customer with current Cisco software, said Chris Kozup, manager of mobility solutions at Cisco. Customers can use the guidelines themselves to build a security architecture or enlist the help of Cisco's services organization or third parties. Enterprises are already able to bring wireless devices into Cisco's security system, which is built around ensuring any client is authorized and free of threats before it can hook up to the network. But bringing the same set of tools into the wireless domain can make that process easier, Kozup said. For example, if an enterprise wanted to secure wireless clients using Cisco's Network Access Control (NAC) appliance, the end user connecting via wireless would have to manually log into the NAC. Now that process can be transparent to the user, just as it is on the wired network, he said. In addition to the NAC, the architecture includes Cisco's ASA firewall, Cisco Security Agent (CSA), Cisco IPS (Intrusion Prevention System) software, Cisco Secure ACS (Access Control Server) and Cisco Secure Services Client. These long-time features of Cisco's wired security are being extended to wireless LANs as the company's latest step toward unifying wired and wireless into one network, Kozup said. The system makes the wired and wireless networks work together to bolster security. For example, if a notebook PC is connected to the LAN via a wired port, its wireless radio will be turned off automatically to prevent an attacker from using the wireless connection as a path on to the wired LAN. In addition, a Cisco wireless LAN controller, the mechanism in an appliance, router or switch that controls wireless infrastructure, can disconnect a wireless LAN client that poses a threat. The security built into all Wi-Fi products has improved in recent years and many vendors sell tools to secure wireless LANs, such as Aruba Wireless Networks Inc.'s technology that uses encrypted tunnels. Cisco's new approach may not be significantly more secure than those options, but it can simplify life for IT administrators, said Farpoint Group analyst Craig Mathias. For one thing, it's easier if security for both parts of the network uses a single directory of users, he said. Other approaches that are less expensive and more scalable can work just as well, according to Burton Group analyst Dave Passmore. "This is Cisco assuming the network perimeter needs to be protected right at the every edge, rather than a more centralized approach," Passmore said. There are no significant threats to an enterprise LAN that can't be handled from within the wired part of the network, he said.
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TechWeb - New Secure Connector feature gives remote users secure network-level access, including access to business applications, data, and network services.
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Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO) and Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq:MSFT) are delivering on their previously stated commitment to provide customers and partners with clear guidance on how Cisco Network Admission Control (NAC) and Microsoft(R) Network Access Protection (NAP) will interoperate.
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A new appliance and new software announced today by Cisco are designed to help business users improve application performance over networks.
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Cisco Systems&#39; collaboration with Microsoft to target the SMB market is starting to bear fruit as the networking vendor Monday launched a new application that integrates Microsoft CRM with its VoIP platform.
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TOKYO: Fujitsu Ltd and Cisco Systems Inc have agreed to form a strategic alliance, focusing on routers and switches that will enable businesses to build advanced Internet Protocol (IP) networks.
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Can't parse that Sysadmins can look forward to clocking some overtime this week after Cisco warned of flaws in how its core operating system handles malformed Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) traffic.â¦
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While America Online, Microsoft, and the open-source community agree to disagree about E-mail-authentication standards, some companies are stepping up to bridge the divide.
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Cisco Systems this week said it had co-developed with Microsoft an application that helps small and medium-sized businesses connect Microsoft&#39;s customer relation management