Juniper Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq: JNPR) today announced it has teamed up with a wide range of network security partners to deliver superior network access control with its Unified Access Control (UAC) solution. The extensive list of partners covers vendors for:

·    Identity and access management (IAM) and authentication, authorization and auditing (AAA) solutions (including Arcot Systems, CA, Entrust, Microsoft, Nominum, Oracle, PassGo Technologies, RSA, Secure Computing and Sun Microsystems);

·    Vulnerability management, secure content management, and security information and event management partners (including Altiris, BigFix, IBM Tivoli, PatchLink, Shavlik Technologies and SurfControl);

·    Security information and event management (SIEM) vendors (including ArcSight, eIQ Networks, ExaProtect, Loglogic, netForensics, Novell, NWG and Q1 Labs);

·    Endpoint security partners (including CA, eEye Digital, Elemental Security, Great Bay Software, General Dynamics, IBM Internet Security Systems, Kaspersky Labs, SignaCert, SkyRecon Systems, Symantec, Wave Systems and Webroot).

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 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, Juniper's UAC solution allows for dynamic policy management that can be enforced in real-time throughout the network.

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