Redwood Shores, CA October 18, 2005 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) program.
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, organizations can automatically audit NAC agentless hosts[1] attempting network connection, without any software to install or manage.
Organizations have been leaving the
