IBM Teams with Cisco for Enterprise Security

IBM (www.ibm.com) and Cisco Systems (www.cisco.com) today announced integrated solutions designed to reduce the damage and disruption that viruses, worms and other security vulnerabilities can cause to networks and minimize the impact they have on day-to-day business operations.

"Since implementing IBM and Cisco's security technologies, we've been able to better serve our customers by streamlining our business processes and increasing staff productivity," said Bernardo Zapata, Security Information Officer, Bancolombia.

IBM and Cisco have extended their global security alliance through the integration of IBM Tivoli software with Cisco Network Admission Control technologies to help enterprises automatically comply with security policies, then quarantine and remediate at-risk computing devices, including laptops, desktops and wireless devices.

"We look forward to working with IBM and Cisco as they expand their collaboration in security to help us in our continued goal of improving our business processes through the use of technology."

IBM and Cisco Systems have a long-standing global strategic alliance that has produced a number of integrated solutions across a range of technologies and industries. The new security automation capabilities are the latest to emerge from a global security initiative IBM and Cisco announced this year.