Description

Cisco Secure Access Control System software for VMWare with Base license (v. 5.5) version upgrade licence

A core component of the Cisco TrustSec solution, Cisco Secure ACS is a highly sophisticated policy platform providing RADIUS and TACACS+ services. It supports the increasingly complex policies needed to meet today’s new demands for access control management and compliance. Cisco Secure ACS provides central management of access policies for device administration and wireless, wired 802.1x, and remote (VPN) network access scenarios.

With the ever-increasing reliance on enterprise networks to perform daily job routines and the increasing number of methods available to access today’s networks, security breaches and uncontrolled user access are of primary concern among enterprises. Network security officers and administrators need solutions that support flexible authentication and authorization policies that are tied not only to a user’s identity, but also to context such as the network access type, time of day the access is requested, and the security of the machine used to access the network. Further, there is a stronger need to effectively audit use of network devices, monitor activities of device admins for corporate compliance, and provide broader visibility and control over device access policies across the network.

Cisco Secure ACS is a highly scalable, high-performance access policy system that centralizes device administration, authentication, and user access policy and reduces the management and support burden for these functions.