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Rubrik: World-wide News/Products & News IBM:
Cisco and IBM Unveil New Model for Business Security Industry
Leaders Collaborate to Deliver Security Products, Technologies and Services (26.02.04)
- IBM and Cisco are collaborating to address a widespread issue within
businesses - ineffective and inefficient security resulting from piecing
together multiple, disparate security products and services. Enterprises and
governments realize they need a more effective way to protect their
businesses from increased external hacker threats, to combat costly viruses
and worms, and to control employee, customer and business partner access to
internal data and applications.
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As part
of their long-standing strategic alliance, IBM and Cisco intend to integrate
various products to help customers build self-defending environments that
will span critical points of business computing - from laptops to corporate
data. This automated approach to
information security can help simplify security, reduce implementation and
administration costs, and bolster business productivity. This can also help customers more
rapidly reap the benefits of on demand business. As a
result of this collaboration, systems, applications and networks can be
protected by integrated security technologies from IBM and Cisco. Key security enforcement points
within businesses can now "talk" to each other and help identify
systems that are not compliant with established security policies, helping to
detect when threats are imminent. When non-compliant systems or threats are
detected, the IBM and Cisco security technologies can automatically adapt to
security breaches and help keep associated remediation costs down. "As
a leading manufacturer of a wide range of semiconductor components and
integrated circuits, National Semiconductor understands the challenges
associated with applying effective end-to-end security when selecting
products from disparate vendors," said Ulrich Seif, senior vice
president and chief information officer for National Semiconductor. "This alliance of two
industry-leading security companies helps address these security challenges,
and it has the potential to not only dramatically improve security but also
reduce risk and lower costs." Initially Cisco and IBM will deliver the following:
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Integrated user provisioning -
New integration between the Cisco Secure Access Control Server (ACS) and IBM
Tivoli® Identity Manager software can help customers reduce the costs of managing
a large number of employee, business partner and customer identities, across
a broad array of networked business applications. This can reduce common security risks, such as invalid
user accounts that plague an estimated 60 percent of large organizations and
can lead to identity theft or intellectual capital theft. The new integration can also decrease
the time it takes to enable new employees to be productive with full access
to all the appropriate applications and network infrastructure.
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Integrated endpoint security -
Businesses can now use the embedded security chip, an IBM ThinkVantage
Technology used in IBM ThinkPad notebooks and ThinkCentre desktops, to
connect seamlessly and with enhanced security to both wired and wireless
networks by using new Cisco virtual private network (VPN) solutions. By using
encrypted authentication information stored inside computer hardware, coupled
with the secure connectivity provided by VPNs, companies can help prevent
unauthorized remote network access. The Cisco Security Agent will also be
integrated with IBM clients and servers to help provide dynamic "day
zero" network attack protection from worms and viruses that have no
defined signature or defense along with the reduced need to constantly update
endpoint security software. IBM
also plans to offer the Cisco Security Agent through www.ibm.com when
customers purchase IBM eServer xSeries products from IBM. Together these new
capabilities and availability options can cost-effectively deliver enhanced
protection across networked business-critical services and resources
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Automated compliance - IBM
will also join the Cisco Network Admission Control (NAC) program and plans to
integrate certain IBM Tivoli security management software with Cisco
infrastructure products that are involved in the program. The Cisco NAC
program fosters enhanced security within the network by allowing customers to
examine the security status of endpoints such as PCs and servers, and
automatically permit or deny endpoint access to critical network and system
resources based on customers' pre-defined corporate IT security policies.
IBM's participation in the Cisco NAC program will extend its capability to
automatically examine system and application credentials and provide more
effective remediation strategies for non-compliant endpoints that could
otherwise pose a security threat to businesses.
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Security services - IBM
Global Services will provide services to help assess a customers' combined
IBM and Cisco IT infrastructure; design and implement integrated security
solutions to protect critical infrastructure; and services that will provide
the skills to manage a customers' security operations, and administer or
outsource security controls, if requested. The IBM
and Cisco global strategic alliance offers customers industry-leading,
integrated e-business solutions. The two companies draw on their strengths in
Internet infrastructure, e-business systems, networks, security and services
to deliver end-to-end Internet business solutions to enterprises and service
providers. Availability The IBM
Tivoli Identity Manager agent for Cisco Secure Access Control Server is
planned for availability in March.
Integration between the IBM Embedded Security Subsystem and the Cisco
VPN Client is currently available. The Cisco Security Agent is currently
available on IBM clients and will be available to IBM eServer xSeries
customers on www.ibm.com Security services from IBM Global Services are also currently available. (ma) IBM
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