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Cisco NAC Appliance: Enforcing Host Security with Clean Access (Networking Technology: Security)


TITLE : Cisco NAC Appliance: Enforcing Host Security with Clean Access (Networking Technology: Security) (Paperback)
AUTHOR : by Chad Sullivan (Author), Jamey Heary (Author),
Alok Agrawal (Author), Jerry Lin (Author)
PUBLISHER : Cisco Press publisher
ISBN : 1587053063
EDITION : 1st
PUB DATE : August 08, 2007
LANGUAGE : English

Cisco(r) Network Admission Control (NAC) Appliance, formerly known as
Cisco Clean Access, provides a powerful host security policy inspection,
enforcement, and remediation solution that is designed to meet these new
challenges. Cisco NAC Appliance allows you to enforce host security
policies on all hosts (managed and unmanaged) as they enter the interior
of the network, regardless of their access method, ownership, device
type, application set, or operating system. Cisco NAC Appliance provides
proactive protection at the network entry point.
Cisco NAC Appliance provides you with all the information needed to
understand, design, configure, deploy, and troubleshoot the Cisco NAC
Appliance solution. You will learn about all aspects of the NAC
Appliance solution including configuration and best practices for
design, implementation, troubleshooting, and creating a host security
policy.

- Understand why network attacks and intellectual property losses can
originate from internal network hosts
- Examine different NAC Appliance design options
- Build host security policies and assign the appropriate network
access privileges for various user roles
- Streamline the enforcement of existing security policies with the
concrete measures NAC Appliance can provide
- Set up and configure the NAC Appliance solution
- Learn best practices for the deployment of NAC Appliance
- Monitor, maintain, and troubleshoot the Cisco NAC Appliance solution

URL: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1587053063/

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