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Cisco to Acquire Perfigo
MisterFuRR writes "Looks like Cisco is going to acquire Perfigo. Perfigo is a developer of packaged network access control solutions that provide endpoint policy analysis, compliance, and access enforcement capabilities. I can just see it now: Linksys routers with stickers that say 'Perfigo Ready.'"
There are. The Sherman Antitrust Act, for one. The problem is enforcement.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
Yeah absolutely!
Cisco hasn't really done anything for networking in their entire history. Oh except for Standby Router Protocol, and IGRP (Interior Gateway Routing Protocol). They also innovated on their own design with EIGRP (Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol) Oh they also did Spanning Tree Protocol, VLAN Trunking Protocol, Skinny (a VoIP standard) and Hot Standby Routing Protocol.
Not to mention Multiple Spanning Tree (MST), a new IEEE standard that grew from Cisco's proprietary
Multiple Instances Spanning Tree Protocol (MISTP) implementation.
They also invented NetFlow and WCCP (Web Cache Control Protocol).
So yeah! No innovation at all from this company that has become the baseline in security and reliability for networking.
Show some respect, because that Internet connection you're on at the moment is probably brought to you courtesy of Cisco innovation.
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I am not familiar with Perfigo, but it seems as though they make equipment which will not allow a device to obtain non-trivial network access unless/until it has been shown to be up to snuff according to various configurable criteria
Got it in one! Right on.
That's exactly what Perfigo does. Its becoming rather popular on college campuses to protect their networks from morons coming back from summer vacation with their laptops and desktops loaded with worms, virii, trojans, major security holes, etc.
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