Cisco Secure Access Control Server Minor Release ( v. 4.2 ) - upgrade license

With the ever-increasing number of methods and opportunities for accessing networks today, security breaches and uncontrolled user access are of primary concern among enterprises. While the wide deployment of wireless LANs and remote access have increased security challenges at the perimeter, security risks inside the enterprise exist as well. Identity networking technologies such as 802.1x that can mitigate both internal and external security vulnerabilities have become of prime interest to customers worldwide. Network security officers and administrators need solutions that support flexible authentication and authorization policies that are tied to the user identity as well as context such as the network access type and the security of the machine used to access the network. Further, there is a need to audit network use and monitor corporate compliance.

Cisco Secure ACS is a highly scalable, high-performance access policy system that centralizes authentication, user access, and administrator access policy and reduces the administrative and management burden. Cisco Secure ACS is a central point for administering security policy for users and devices accessing the network. Cisco Secure ACS supports multiple and concurrent access scenarios.

Cisco Secure ACS is a powerful access policy system with management and scalability features for the growing organization.