Qualys announced the integration of its QualysGuard on demand vulnerability management solution with the Cisco NAC program

October 18, 2005

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SLOUGH, U.K. -- Qualys, Inc., the leading provider of on demand vulnerability management and policy compliance solutions, today announced the integration of its QualysGuard on demand vulnerability management solution with the Cisco Network Admission Control (NAC) programme.

Cisco NAC is a set of technologies and solutions built on an industry initiative led by Cisco Systems. Cisco NAC uses network infrastructure to enforce security policy compliance on all devices seeking to access network computing resources, thus limiting damage from emerging security threats. NAC is part of the Cisco Self-Defending Network security strategy which helps increase network intelligence in order to enable the network to automatically identify, prevent, and adapt to security threats.

Until now, auditing unmanaged devices for security vulnerabilities before accessing the network was a challenge for enterprises seeking to limit damages from viruses and worms. With QualysGuard for NAC, organisations can automatically audit NAC agentless hosts attempting network connection, without any software to install or manage.

“Organisations have been leaving the ‘front door’ open to their networks," said Lawrence Orans, research director at Gartner. “This mindset is the root cause for many problems and it has to stop. Network Access Control (NAC) allows network managers to take back control of their network, so that they have the ability to block or quarantine devices that do not comply with policies.”

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