Juniper and Microsoft become NAC compatible

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The company has upgraded the installation tools for its UAC agentto make it as easy as possible. It also makes it possible forauto-remediation to work with more third-party products and makingUAC scale to hundreds of thousands of endpoints at a time.
Juniper has also broadened the devices that can send security inputto its Infranet Controller (IC), the UAC policy controller, inorder to isolate misbehaving endpoints.
The company’s Coordinated Threat Control (CTC) architectureenables various devices on the network to report to the IC aboutsignificant security incidents. Based on the severity of theseevents, IC policies can call for quarantining the offending machineor restricting the access it has to the network. In extreme casesits session can be cut and further access attempts denied until theattack can be analyzed.
Juniper has expanded this reporting capability to include thefirewall within its ISG appliance.
Juniper is also announcing two new IC appliances, the IC 4500 andthe IC 6500, new hardware that boosts performance of earliermodels. IC 4500 costs $10,000 for the appliance plus licenses forconcurrent users. The smallest license is for 25 users and costs$1,500. The IC 6500 appliance costs $15,000 plus licenses. Thesmallest license package is for 100 users and costs $4,300.
The company has added a disaster recovery license for its UACplatform. So when a business has to switch to a backup or mirroreddata center, it costs less to license the backup site that it wouldotherwise cost.