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McAfee & Cisco Joint Network Access Control Solution

Powerful Policy Management, Unmatched Network Enforcement

Extended networks bring risk. Guests and traveling employees may connect systems that do not comply with your security policies. Network access control solutions challenge and evaluate systems when they try to access the network. Compliant systems are allowed access. Non-compliant systems are denied access and/or sent to remediation portals. Cisco provides an enforcement framework for network access control. McAfee® provides powerful policy management. The joint solution allows organizations to extend their networks without risking infection from non-compliant systems.

McAfee and Cisco have collaborated to deliver a comprehensive NAC solution which provides the ability to Define policies, Detect endpoints, Assess endpoint compliance, Enforce network access, and Remediate the endpoint to be in compliance with policies. McAfee Policy Enforcer integrates with Cisco NAC APIs for a complete policy enforcement solution in conjunction with your Cisco NAC-enabled network.

Harnessing the Power of McAfee and Cisco for Enterprise-ready Network Admissions and Network Access Control Whitepaper

Benefits and Features

McAfee and Cisco bring together complementary endpoint security and network infrastructure expertise to deliver a network access control that leverages your existing IT environment and processes

Benefits of the joint solutions are: Features
  • Investment Protection
    Leverage your financial investments and expertise with these market leaders for security and networking infrastructure
  • Comprehensive Protection
    Total ProtectionTM for the Enterprise – Advanced from McAfee and ubiquitous enforcement via NAC framework and Network Access Devices from Cisco
  • Single Management Console
    Define NAC policies and deliver NAC agents with the industry-leading solution to enforce and monitor your system security with scalability and performance in mind, ePolicy Orchestrator
  • Single Agent for the Future
    Investment protection built-in with continued relevance of McAfee endpoint agent with Policy Enforcer (NAC), Anti-virus, Anti-spyware, Host Intrusion Prevention, and Desktop Firewall, evolving to meet requirements of the future
  • Single management console
    You get single-point security management, reporting, and deployment with comprehensive protection–anti-virus, anti-spyware, anti-spam, desktop firewall, intrusion prevention and network access control
  • Network access control
    It limits network access to systems that comply with your security policies
  • Desktop and file server anti-virus
    It delivers advanced malware protection for desktops and file servers, which are difficult to manage
  • Desktop anti-spyware
    True on-access scanning identifies, proactively blocks and safely eliminates potentially unwanted programs (PUPs)
  • Desktop intrusion prevention
    It monitors and proactively blocks intrusions by combining signature and behavioral protection with a desktop firewall
  • E-mail spam and virus protection
    E-mail server anti-virus delivers comprehensive virus protection and content filtering, with a 95 percent spam detection rate; e-mail anti-spam and anti-virus service ensures always up-to-date e-mail protection
  • Network device recognition
    Recognizes users, their devices, and their roles in the network. This first step occurs at the point of authentication, before malicious code can cause damage.
  • Compliance evaluation
    Evaluates whether machines are compliant with security policies. Security policies can include specific anti-virus or anti-spyware software, OS updates, or patches. Cisco Clean Access supports policies that vary by user type, device type, or operating system.
  • Security policy enforcement
    Enforces security policies by blocking, isolating, and repairing noncompliant machines.

Description:

Cisco

Network Admission Control has been designed specifically to help ensure that all wired and wireless endpoint devices (such as PCs, laptops, servers, and PDAs) accessing network resources are adequately protected from security threats. NAC allows organizations to analyze and control all devices coming into the network. By ensuring that every endpoint device complies with corporate security policy and is running the latest and most relevant security protections, organizations can significantly reduce or eliminate endpoint devices as a common source of infection or network compromise.

McAfee Inc.

A single solution with a single console, McAfee Total Protection for Enterprise —Advanced reduces the complexity of managing your enterprise security. It delivers comprehensive threat prevention, centralized management, and scalable network access control. This integrated approach enables you to protect data and ensure business continuity by proactively blocking known and unknown attacks, and controlling noncompliant endpoints.

Together McAfee and Cisco offer a set of solutions that are built on Cisco Systems® and McAfee proven-security initiatives. 

The unified management platform makes your operations more efficient and effective through centralized deployment, configuration and policy setting, and strict monitoring of your enterprise-wide security posture from within the easy-to-use console. As the industry’s first truly integrated security solution, it provides significant licensing savings and one point of support for your entire enterprise.  You can feel safe that you are protected by McAfee and Cisco ensuring security compliance on all your network devices and limiting access by security threats such as viruses, worms, spyware, and other harmful intrusions. 

 

McAfee and Cisco:

Together, McAfee and Cisco provide a complete end-to-end solution for network access control. Use McAfee Policy Enforcer to define security policies, assess systems to determine their security posture, and remediate systems as appropriate. McAfee also adds critical management capabilities, such as the ability to set company-wide policies and effective management reporting and auditing. Cisco NAC provides active enforcement by discovering systems as they request network connections and enforcing the policies (either by blocking or limiting access to certain subnets), by quarantining non-compliant systems, or permitting access for compliant systems.