Cisco NAC: Strong in-line enforcement

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	Cisco NAC: Strong in-line enforcement While Cisco's overall NAC strategy is in flux, a NAC Appliance investment is likely to come with substantial purchase protection — just be sure to keep your SMARTnet contract up to date. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Vyatta Is your network still stuck in the box? The network is changing and Vyatta's open networking software is the only solution that allows you to connect and secure physical, virtual & cloud architectures with a single network OS. Easily add flexible, high-performance routing, firewall, VPN, IPS and more to x86-based systems and common virtualization platforms. Learn more about Vyatta and Download Free Software In this Issue Juniper NAC: Powerful, complex Network access control vendors pass endpoint security testing Cisco sees billions in smart buildings Cisco consumer launch coming up Can X Prize help deliver Gulf region from BP oil disaster? Visit the Cisco Subnet home page for more Cisco news Data center upgrades demand attention now RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: AT&T AT&T Designing Tomorrow's Ethernet-Based Metropolitan Area Networks Click to continue Juniper NAC: Powerful, complex Trying to describe Juniper's UAC is difficult, because Juniper's NAC strategy has its tendrils in virtually every security product the company makes, from firewalls to switches to SSL VPNs. Read More Network access control vendors pass endpoint security testing One of the main promises of NAC is that you can ensure that endpoint security tools are up to date and that non-compliant machines can be identified or blocked. As regulatory compliance has grown in importance, NAC vendors have reacted by building strong feature sets aimed at endpoint security and compliance. In our NAC testing, we had good, and sometimes great, results across the board when it came to endpoint security. Read More WHITE PAPER: ArcSight Building a Successful Security Operations Center This paper outlines industry best practices for building and maturing a security operations center (SOC). For those organizations planning to build a SOC or those organizations hoping to improve their existing SOC this paper will outline the typical mission parameters, the business case, people considerations, processes and procedures, as well as, the technology involved. Building a Successful Security Operations Center Cisco sees billions in smart buildings Cisco this week discussed Smart+Connected community initiatives in Vietnam and the Philippines with property developers on both countries. Read More Cisco consumer launch coming up Cisco is planning a consumer product launch, according to PR Week, which notes that they've hired a PR firm to handle it. Read More E-GUIDE: Compuware Perfecting Application Performance The enterprise application scene has become increasingly complicated over the years. Things have changed with the rise of Web services, SOA, Virtualization and cloud computing. In this Executive Guide explore how to get the best performance out of today's application environments. Read Now. Can X Prize help deliver Gulf region from BP oil disaster? The X Prize Foundation, known for offering millions of dollars in prize money to drive innovations in aerospace, life science and energy will soon offer its potentially extensive help to the White House in an effort to tackle challenges of the devastating BP Oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Read More Visit the Cisco Subnet home page for more Cisco news The Cisco Subnet community features industry-expert bloggers, giveaways and all the top news of interest to network professionals. This month: 15 copies of CompTIA Security+ study bundle up for grabs. Subscribe to our bloggers via RSS http://www.networkworld.com/community/blogs/cisco/feed Follow us on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/ciscosubnet Read More Data center upgrades demand attention now School is out for summer, but it's time for IT executives to hit the books to prepare for a 2011 data center refresh that delivers cost savings enabled by virtualization and flatter architectures with lower latency. Read More
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