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Microsoft, Cisco Not in Sync on Security

Ellen Messmer writes on NetworkWorld:

While Microsoft and Cisco continue the hard sell on their respective visions for quarantine-based endpoint security, customers and industry experts are asking hard questions about cost, complexity and the willingness of these industry giants to work together.

The dual dynamics were on display at last week's RSA Conference 2006, where Microsoft Chief Software Architect Bill Gates and Cisco CEO John Chambers each used the term "ecosphere" in describing the need to have a broad swath of security vendors in the anti-virus, patch management and endpoint security arenas cooperating to support a common framework that recognizes violations of security policy and restricts access until remediation takes place.

That Gates and Chambers were talking about separate frameworks was not lost on the audience.

posted by Fergie @ 2/21/2006 12:13:00 PM