By Cisco Systems

As the separation between public and private networks becomes increasingly blurred, enterprise administrators have begun to recognize that they must find better ways to control access to corporate resources and information. Isolated best-in-class solutions no longer meet their operational requirements. Identity authentication needs to be applied across all access methods in a consistent manner. Access to critical applications and network resources must be provided to any user on any device or any platform across a variety of access points. With so many types of users and access methods, a converged policy engine is required to manage user roles and access control requirements. And the integrity and confidentiality of transactions frequently must be ensured, even within the campus.

Cisco has developed a new architecture along with a set of products and technologies called Cisco TrustSec, which allows enterprise networks to transition from:

• Isolated identity mechanisms to secure campus access control
• Disjointed policies to converged policies
• Unplanned to pervasive integrity and confidentiality

Ultimately, this transforms a topology-aware network into one that is role- aware

Posted 17 December 2007 at 7:38 pm under Network Access Control and Protection, Cisco. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.