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Product Overview
Key Features and Benefits
Specifications
Ordering Information

Ordering Information

CiscoSecure Access Control Server v2.4 for Windows NT

Product Overview

To support the growing population of network devices that directly or indirectly control how users connect to the public Internet and the corporate intranet, Cisco introduces CiscoSecure ACS v2.4 for Windows NT. CiscoSecure ACS v2.4 for Windows NT is an Access Control Server that operates as a Windows NT Service and controls the authentication, authorization, and accounting of users accessing thousands of network ports.

CiscoSecure ACS v2.4 for Windows NT supports the centralization of access control and accounting for dial-up access servers and firewalls, and management of access to routers and switches. With it, network administrators can quickly manage user accounts and globally change levels of security and network policy for entire groups of users. This improves their ability to deliver remote access VPN and dial-up services to corporations investing in the expansion of their wide area network (WAN) and networking services.

Because of its tight integration with the Windows NT operating system, companies can leverage their working knowledge, and the investment already made into building a Windows NT network and the Windows NT database.

Key Features and Benefits

CiscoSecure ACS is a powerful access control server with many high performance and scalability features for any organization growing their WAN connectivity:

• Simultaneous TACACS+ and RADIUS support for a flexible solution

• Windows NT database support to leverage and consolidate Windows NT username/password management and enable single login

• Password support that includes Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP), Microsoft Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (MS-CHAP), Password Authentication Protocol (PAP), and AppleTalk Remote Access (ARA)

• HTML/JAVA GUI for a ubiquitous interface that simplifies and distributes configuration for user profiles, group profiles, and ACS configuration

• Help and online documentation for quick problem solving

• Administration of users using groups for maximum flexibility and to facilitate enforcement and changes of security policies

• Different access levels for each CiscoSecure ACS administrator

• The ability to group the network devices for easier management of these devices

• Sophisticated unknown user handling

• Domain stripping and authentication forwarding

• Authentication against the NDS database

• ODBC import

• Automatic replication

• VPDN support at the origination and termination of VPDN (L2F) tunnels

• Import mechanism to rapidly import a large number of users

• Token Server support for Security Dynamics, Axent Technologies, Secure Computing and CryptoCard

• Token caching for ISDN terminal adapters

• Time-of-day and day-of-week access restrictions

• User restrictions based on Remote Address such as CLID

• Disabling of an account on a specific date

• Disabling of an account after N failed attempts

• Viewing of logged-in user list

• Windows NT Performance Monitor support for real-time statistic viewing

• Accounting and audit information stored in CSV format for convenient import into billing applications

Using CiscoSecure Access Control Server, a network administrator can control the following:

• Who can log in to the network

• What privileges each user has in the network

• What accounting information is recorded in terms of security audits or account billing

Specifications

Ordering Information

Ordering Information

The following table lists the CiscoSecure ACS v2.4 for Windows NT product numbers. Note that CiscoSecure ACS v2.4 for Windows NT is licensed on a per-server basis. There are no restrictions on the number of users or the number of ports used on a licensed server.

Posted: Wed Sep 27 05:15:07 PDT 2000
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