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A group of unknown hackers posted on message boards and security user groups claiming to sell Ciscoâs PIX Firewall software source code for sale.
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Four small security software vendors have teamed up to develop a set of technical criteria for tools designed to secure Web applications. They also invited Cisco and other large IT vendors to take part in the certification program.
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(InfoWorld) - As it develops the next generation of network security infrastructure, Cisco Systems Inc. is planning to cease development on its network admission control (NAC) client, the Cisco Trust Agent (CTA), and submit the source code for the software client to the open source community, Bob Gleichauf, CTO of Cisco's Security Technology Group, told InfoWorld. Cisco has a goal of making the CTA open source within "a couple months," allowing the company to free up development resources for other areas of NAC, Gleichauf said. Cisco's decisionis Â more evidence that Cisco will cede control of the desktop to Microsoft Vista, following a deal in September to use the Microsoft's NAP (Network Access Protection Agent) as the client for both Cisco NAC and NAP. "CTA will be something that's open source. That's just logically where it should end up," Gleichauf told InfoWorld. "We don't want to be in the CTA business, so we're going to just open it up." In September, Cisco and Microsoft unveiled the fruits of a long, cross company effort to integrate their network access control architectures. The plan devised by the two companies called for computers running Windows Vista or Windows Server to include the NAP Agent component as part of the core operating system, and to use that agent for both NAP and NAC. The NAP added support Extensible Authentication Protocol over UDP and EAP-FAST support, developed by Cisco and distributed over Windows Update in addition to native EAP methods and an 802.1X supplicant to enable it to work for both NAC and NAP. Computers running Windows XP with Service Pack 2, as well as non Windows systems, would need to run the Cisco Trust Agent for NAC and run the NAP Agent for NAP. Cisco also promised to continue developing CTA for non-Windows Vista and non-Windows Server âLonghornâ platforms. Since then, however, Microsoft and Cisco have extended both 802.1x and EAP support to Windows XP, reducing the need for the CTA, said Mark Ashida, General Manager of Enterprise Networking Servers at Microsoft. Open sourcing the CTA agent is just part of a much larger effort at Cisco to push beyond mere network access control to a much broader security architecture that addresses problems such as data leaks and policy enforcement -- architecture in which Cisco's Security Agent (CSA) will play a much bigger role, Gleichauf said. "Data leakage is about things crossing boundaries from areas you control to areas where you have less control: e-mail attachments going over IM, or data going from someone in [human resources] to someone in manufacturing who shouldn't see it," he said. "For us, it's all about modeling based on how data moves around. We recognize that data has its own identity, and we want to use the controls we've built up around where users can go -- role based access -- to figure out where data can and can't go," he said. Components like the technology Cisco recently acquired with IronPort will provide some of the intelligence to stop messaging and Web based leaks, and Cisco will use intelligence in its routers and switches to control data flows and in the CSA agent to enforce data-level policies on the desktop, Gleichauf said.Â  "CSA is the next area where you're going to see us make go to market announcements that offer real value in the data leak space," he said. "Cisco's getting out of the desktop plumbing business and focusing on areas on the desktop where they can add value to what they're doing on the network," said Jon Oltsik, an analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. But Gleichauf's comment may also be an indication that Cisco trying to change the conversation around its NAC architecture, which has been a tough sell with enterprises largely because of the cost of upgrading Cisco and non-Cisco networking infrastructure in order to take advantage of the access control features. While the company has found plenty of buyers for its NAC appliance, formerly known as "Clean Access," it has had far few takers for the full fledged NAC solution. In the meantime, the company has found competition from a wide range of niche NAC vendors, security mainstays like Symantec as well as Microsoft, Juniper and the Trusted Computing Group's standards based Trusted Network Connect architecture. Gleichauf acknowledged that his company hadn't executed well in selling NAC to partners, but said the solution was for Cisco to close the loop even tighter on which firms it will tap to be a part of its solution. "With NAC we got caught in the vendor program race with TNC and Microsoft, where you want to get as many vendors as possible. But there are only a minority of vendors who are value added. The majority of them are just looking for stickers to put on their booth," he said.  Going forward with its data leakage solution, Cisco will rely on a small number of main vendors that offer it more value with license arrangements, rather than rely on open standards, Gleichauf said. That vision concerned Steve Hannah of the Trusted Computing Group, which promotes open standards for network access control that allow third party software to speak a common language when making access control decisions. Releasing the NAC client as an open source application was a fine gesture, but it has little value to the community at large until Cisco agreed to submit its NAC protocols as open standards, he said. "Ultimately, Cisco retains control, and you end up with Cisco as the center of the universe. So customers are stuck buying Cisco gear and looking for things that plug into Cisco gear, but they don't really have a choice of different vendors," said Hannah, who is a distinguished engineer at Cisco competitor Juniper Networks. TCG is happy to talk with Cisco about moving NAC protocols to open standards, perhaps blending NAC technologies from Cisco and TCG to give software vendors and enterprises the most choice, he said. In the end, submitting CTA as an open source application may just be a politically correct way of throwing in the towel on an application that had become irrelevant, said Oltsik. "It's a feel-good move," Oltsik said, but one without much force as long as the NAC protocols used by CTA remain firmly in Cisco's grasp.
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Source code is source of strength in forthcoming Tiger operating system, company says. Also: Commissions for iTunes sales, and iPods on the open road.
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Cisco has discovered a security flaw in its Cisco Security Agent software (CSA. This could be exploited by attackers to circumvent the security provided by the host-based intrusion prevention product.
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Can Ned Hooper keep the magic of Cisco's acquisition machine alive? A lot depends on the answer to that question.
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Cisco Systems has agreed to buy software developer P-Cube in a cash-and-options deal Cisco valued at $200m (Â£110m). P-Cube makes software to help service providers analyse and control network traffic.
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Microsoft Watch has revealed that Microsoft is preparing to donate some more of its source code to the SourceForge code repository. Microsoft Watch editor Mary Jo Foley reports that on Tuesday, the software giant will come forward bearing gifts under the umbrella of the open source Common Public License (CPL). Foley has speculated that tomorrow's release may be the Microsoft Enterprise Library from its Patterns & Practices Group. Previous contributions include Microsoft's Windows Installer XML (WiX) and the Windows Template Library.
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Network equipment giant Cisco Systems (Quote, Chart) is buying IP platform specialist P-Cube for $200 million in cash and stock. P-Cube&#39;s technology helps telecom carriers, cable operators and ISPs manage
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RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK - Cisco Systems is acquiring a California-based network management appliance developer for approximately $16 million in cash.
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Replacement kit fraud A public sector computer technician from New Jersey has been arrested over allegations he took Cisco for $10m through a fraud that exploited the networking giant's programme for replacing broken or defective kit.â¦
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Cisco Systems has announced its intention to buy privately-held Perfigo, but while waiting for the acquisition to close, Cisco has licensed Perfigo&#39;s technology in an OEM deal.
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Enterasys Networks Inc.&#39;s secret sauce is reportedly back on the black market, after an anonymous person or group calling itself the Source Code Club offered to sell some of its software code for $16,000.
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Brandeis University has successfully deployed Cisco's Application Control Engine module in its Cisco Catalyst 6500 Switch and is using it for Moodle, an open-source program for creating online learning communities.
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UK Police have arrested a 20-year old man in Preston on suspicion of stealing source code from Cisco Systems. The arrest under violation of the Computer Misuse Act 1990, follows Cisco&#39;s admission in May that
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Cisco Systems has sealed an alliance with Fujitsu in a bid to boosts its Japanese market presence. Under the terms of the deal, Fujitsu will act as a reseller for Cisco&#39;s high-end routing systems.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. _ Just days after Cisco System