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Mirage Networks will demonstrate at RSA Conference 2007 next week that its new alliance with IBM can reduce the number of consoles businesses have to use in order to keep track of security.
At the show, the companies will demonstrate that Mirage's NAC gear can report to and be managed by IBM Internet Security Systems (ISS) management software. The alliance calls for integrating Mirage's Endpoint Control appliances with IBM ISS's Proventia Management Site Protector platform.
The offering is designed for customers with heterogeneous networks who want to manage network access control (NAC) and other network features from a single platform. Current customers of IBM ISS's management platform could add NAC capabilities to their networks by buying a Site-Protector-enabled Endpoint Control box from Mirage.
Expect more such alliances between NAC vendors and vendors of other network gear, says Mounil Patel, vice president of information management and security for Aberdeen Group. "We'll see more big players [like IBM] come around and adopt partners for NAC," he says.
With these alliances, customers can get more complete and automated network security, he says. For instance, in the future a network management platform with hooks into NAC gear and patch management gear could automatically update desktops that the NAC gear discovered to be patched incorrectly, Patel says. Such an arrangement would be useful in cases where the NAC vendor's gear doesn't interoperate directly with the patch-management gear, he says.
He also says it is a way to leverage existing gear when adding NAC to a network. Many businesses are leery of deploying NAC because they fear it means paying for a network overhaul, Patel says.
When an ISS-enabled Mirage box is added to a network that uses Site Protector, the box automatically registers to be managed by Site Protector.
The Mirage appliance detects devices trying to access the network, challenges them and runs the results of the challenge through its policy engine to decide whether to grant entry. With the ISS integration, data about this interaction is fed to Site Protector.
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