Also: Symantec announces IPS upgrade; McAfee adds IPS version for Linux
Microsoft has chosen Aruba Wireless Networks to upgrade the company’s global wireless LAN. The deal means that Microsoft will replace more than 5,000 Cisco Aironet access points worldwide with Aruba’s thin access points and WLAN switches. The Microsoft deal will be seen as a blue-chip stamp of approval on the use of WLAN switches and thin access points for large-scale WLAN deployments. Neither Aruba nor Microsoft released information on the value of the contract. According to Aruba, the WLAN will cover 277 buildings in 60 countries, supporting 25,000 employees and an estimated 100,000 wireless-equipped devices.
Symantec last week announced Critical System Protection 4.5, an upgrade to the host-based intrusion-prevention system formerly known as AppFire from Platform Logic, a company that Symantec acquired last year. Critical System Protection, which now includes a Symantec management interface, protects applications and the operating system on clients and servers based on Windows, Linux and Solaris. It costs $995 for servers and $69 per desktop.
McAfee last week broadened its Entercept host-based intrusion-prevention system by adding a version for Linux servers. McAfee Entercept for Linux uses both behavioral rules and intrusion-prevention signatures to provide security protection from buffer-overflow attacks. The software costs $900 per server.
