WholeSecurity Joins the Network Admission Control Program

WholeSecurity Joins the Network Admission Control Program

WholeSecurity's Confidence Online to Integrate With Cisco Trust Agent to Help Ensure Endpoint PCs are Free of Malicious Threats

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- WholeSecurity, the leading provider of behavioral, on-demand endpoint security solutions, today announced that it has joined the Network Admission Control (NAC) Program, an industry effort led by Cisco Systems to limit potential damage to enterprise networks from worms and viruses. WholeSecurity is integrating its Confidence Online(TM) Enterprise Edition Always-On solution with the Cisco Trust Agent, a key component to the NAC program.

This integration works to safeguard enterprise environments by helping to ensure that PCs are free of malicious threats, such as worms, Trojan horses, and malicious spyware, before a network connection is established.

The NAC program is a Cisco-led industry initiative that uses network infrastructure to enforce security policy compliance on all devices seeking access to network computing resources. Designed to limit damage from viruses and worms, NAC enables organizations to identify noncompliant or infected devices and then deny network access, place them in quarantine, or only provide restricted access to specific resources.

Confidence Online Enterprise Edition Always-On safeguards managed PCs in a LAN or IPSEC VPN environment against worms, Trojan horses, keystroke loggers, and other malicious spyware. As a NAC-enabled application, Confidence Online integrates with the Cisco Trust Agent to communicate posture information to NAC infrastructure devices, enforcing compliance at the network layer. Using this posture information, the NAC-enabled network determines network access appropriately. For example, when Confidence Online detects a malicious code infection, the device will be immediately disconnected from the network or placed into quarantine until the threat is remediated -- thereby preventing the infection from propagating and thwarting theft of enterprise resources.

"The intent of the NAC program is to provide our customers with the most comprehensive network protection possible," said Russell Rice, director of product marketing in the Security Technology Group at Cisco Systems. "The addition of WholeSecurity's proven behavioral detection technology to the NAC program will help enable our customers to better safeguard against zero-day threats and malicious eavesdropping programs."

To deliver zero-hour protection against known and unknown malicious threats, Confidence Online uses a revolutionary behavioral detection method proven by third-party testing to be more reliable and effective than signature-based solutions. WholeSecurity customers have benefited from Confidence Online's zero-hour protection against the multitude of worm variants released over the last six months, without having to install or update signatures. Confidence Online provides a significant cost savings by enabling a more rational and less expensive patch management process and by eliminating hours of cleanup and recovery following the release of a new worm. With the addition of NAC interoperability, Cisco customers will now be able to ensure that Confidence Online protects all managed PCs entering the network.

"In the last year, companies have faced more malicious code attacks than ever before. By working with Cisco, WholeSecurity can help enable our joint customers to implement the advanced protection required to weather these attacks and ensure a high level of security on vulnerable endpoint PCs," said Peter J. Selda, chief executive officer of WholeSecurity.

More information about NAC can be found at: http://www.cisco.com/go/nac

About WholeSecurity


WholeSecurity is the leading provider of behavioral endpoint security solutions. Our products and services protect users' PCs from worms, Trojan horses, keystroke loggers, and phishing attacks. WholeSecurity's products leverage patent-pending behavioral technology to identify and eliminate these threats, whether they are known or unknown, on both managed and unmanaged PCs. Based in Austin, Texas, WholeSecurity's customers include Deutsche Bank, America Online, Inc., Comerica, eBay, Raymond James and Cambridge Health Alliance. To learn more, please visit http://www.wholesecurity.com/ .

Confidence Online and Web Caller-ID are trademarks of WholeSecurity, Inc. Other product and company names mentioned are the property of their respective owners.

For more information contact:
Kirstan Ryan Julie Acuff
Porter Novelli WholeSecurity
512-241-2235 512-874-7431
kirstan.ryan@porternovelli.comjulie.acuff@wholesecurity.com


Source: WholeSecurity

CONTACT: Kirstan Ryan of Porter Novelli, +1-512-241-2235, or
kirstan.ryan@porternovelli.com , for WholeSecurity; or Julie Acuff of
WholeSecurity, +1-512-874-7431, or julie.acuff@wholesecurity.com

Web site: http://www.wholesecurity.com/
http://www.cisco.com/go/nac


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