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Juniper Networks and Leading Identity and Access Management Partners Deliver Superior Network Access Control
Interoperability With Juniper's Unified Access Control Provides Solid Foundation for Reducing Security Risk, Increasing ROI From Existing Enterprise Security Investments
| Source: Juniper Networks
SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- February 6, 2007 -- RSA CONFERENCE -- Juniper Networks, Inc.
(NASDAQ : JNPR ) today announced the company is teaming with industry
leaders that provide identity and access management (IAM) solutions, as
well as with top firms providing authentication, authorization and auditing
(AAA) solutions, to enable best-in-class network access control deployments. These solutions work in
conjunction with Juniper Networks' Unified Access Control (UAC) solution to help enterprises effectively manage user
access to critical business assets from a wide range of network endpoints.
Some of Juniper's growing list of partners in the IAM and AAA markets includes Arcot Systems, Entrust, Microsoft,
Nominum, Oracle, PassGo Technologies, RSA, The Security Division of EMC,
Secure Computing and Sun Microsystems.
Juniper Networks' UAC 2.0 solution leverages user identity information in
conjunction with device security state and network location information to
create a unique access control policy for each user. IAM and AAA help
automate the provisioning, validation and ongoing management of individual
user identities in the enterprise. By delivering interoperability between
IAM/AAA solutions and UAC 2.0, Juniper is providing a comprehensive and
flexible approach to network access control that enables enterprises to maximize
their investments in best-in-class security infrastructure, lower total
cost of ownership and improve their overall security posture.
"RSA is pleased to partner with Juniper to provide information-centric
security solutions for business acceleration and help the world's leading
organizations succeed by solving their most complex and sensitive security
challenges," said Toffer Winslow, vice president of product management and
product marketing at RSA, The Security Division of EMC. "We're working
with Juniper to enable customers to cost-effectively secure critical
information assets and online identities, because with the proper network
access controls in place, our joint customers can confidently protect their
private consumer, employee and partner data throughout the information
infrastructure."
As enterprise networks grow increasingly complex and mobile, with users
including employees, guests, partners and contractors requiring access to
critical business information, Juniper Networks' UAC 2.0 solution solves
the problem of balancing access controls and threat mitigation. In many
enterprises, network endpoints are often poorly managed, unmanaged, and in
some cases, unmanageable. Business requirements demand that users and
devices get access to resources and applications, but providing such access
without sufficient controls opens the enterprise to a number of business
and security risks and regulatory compliance challenges. By binding user
identity, endpoint integrity and location information with access controls,
UAC 2.0 allows for dynamic policy management that can be enforced in
real-time throughout the network.
"Without the ability to collect and verify user identity information,
access control cannot be effective," said Eric Skinner, vice president of
product marketing at Entrust. "By taking an open standards-based approach
to network access control, and providing out-of-the-box interoperability
with authentication solutions such as Entrust IdentityGuard, Juniper
Networks is making it easier and more cost-effective for Entrust customers
to implement network access control."
"Effective access control is only possible by leveraging a combination of
critical elements, including user identity information and endpoint
security state, to determine and manage a user's access rights," said
Karthik Krishnan, product line manager at Juniper Networks. "Through
interoperability with leading solutions in the IAM/AAA market, Juniper
Networks' UAC solution can help customers achieve greater value from their
existing investments, provides them with a flexible means to implement
granular access control rules and effectively addresses the user identity
piece of the access control equation."
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enable customers to support a wide variety of services and applications at
scale. Service providers, enterprises, governments and research and
education institutions rely on Juniper to deliver a portfolio of proven
networking, security and application acceleration solutions that solve
highly complex, fast-changing problems in the world's most demanding
networks. Additional information can be found at www.juniper.net.
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