Microsoft, Cisco, team up
p2pnet.net News:- Microsoft and Cisco Systems say they’ll work together to make Cisco’s Network Admissions Control and Microsoft’s Network Access Protection products compatible, reports Information Week.
"Both are intended to tighten security at network end points by checking the status of PCs and laptops to ensure they’re virus free, up to date on patches, and compliant with company software policies," says Information Week
The deal will, however, add another ’stop’ to Microsoft’s list of product delays.
Delivery of Network Access Protection will be pushed back for more than a year and is now scheduled for the Longhorn version of Windows server in 2007.
One reason for this is Microsoft decided to add support for the Internet Security Protocol, or IPSec, says Information Week, adding:
"Microsoft had planned to use only the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol to ‘interrogate’ computers seeking network privileges, but came to the realization that the IPSec, which uses encryption, was required, too. ‘DHCP is a lowest common denominator,’ says Steve Anderson, director of Windows Server marketing. ‘In many security circles, while it’s good, it’s not good enough’."
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compliant – Microsoft And Cisco Partner On Network-Access Security, Information Week, Information Week, October 18, 2004
October 18th, 2004 at 8:09 pm
So now the routers will have full access to all the systems?
How else would it check for viruses and vulnerabilities?
So all you need to do is hijack the router to compromise the whole network?
I bet this is giving them headaches to implement.
Not to mention that this means if microsoft wants to force users
to change their agreements with M$ all they have to do is
bundle a new license agreement with a “critical fix” that requires them to agree to the new agreement
and the router is going to force all users to update before using the network.
Raise your hand if you want to have your network be at the mercy of microsoft?
It already is if your using windows? Oops.