Network Admission Control System
Tuesday November 18, 2003
Cisco has decided to go to war to prevent the spread of network-based worms such as Blaster or Sobig which have recently spread around the Internet and clogged network bandwidth. Partnering with companies such as Network Associates, Symantec and Trend Micro, Cisco is rolling out new technology designed to restrict which devices are able to communicate with the network. For more information about Cisco's Network Admission Control and their Self-Defending Network Initiative you can read this Register.com article by John Leyden: Cisco combats network worms.