Black Box Corp., a leading communications system integrator dedicated to designing, implementing, and maintaining today’s complex communications solutions, announced that it was recognized as an Identity Services Engine (ISE) Authorized Technology Provider (ATP) from Cisco. This means that the company will be able to better support the expanding role of access control solutions that leverage the intelligence of the network. An additional component of achieving this status is that it states that Black Box has fulfilled the training requirements and program prerequisites to sell, deploy, and support Cisco ISE products and solutions. This platform is a next-generation, contextually based access control solution that offers visibility and control to ensure a highly secure enterprise and efficiently enforced security policy across an entire distributed network.
“Black Box is proud to add the Identity Services Engine (ISE) authorization to our Cisco capabilities. This expertise enables us to help our clients effectively manage access to business-sensitive and confidential resources through an understanding of who and what are attempting to access their corporate networks. The concept of protecting business resources at the network perimeter is no longer sufficient in this age of mobility–as more and more personal devices are being allowed to access corporate intellectual property. Black Box is committed to helping our clients understand this technology, and more importantly, the business requirements and risks that go along with Bring Your Own Device (BYOD),” said Peter Marquis, Vice President of Black Box Network Services.
The Cisco ATP program is part of the go-to-market strategy that helps define the knowledge, skills, and services that channel partners need to successfully sell, deploy, and support Cisco ISE solutions. It offers authenticated network access, profiling, posture, and guest management along with monitoring, reporting, and troubleshooting capabilities on a single physical or virtual appliance. This enables clients to have scalable and flexible enforcement mechanisms, leveraging existing identity-aware network infrastructure and ships on a wide range of physical appliances with different performance settings to address multiple deployment requirements.
Black Box is a leading communications system integrator dedicated to designing, sourcing, implementing, and maintaining today’s complex communications solutions. Black Box services more than 175,000 clients in approximately 150 countries with approximately 200 offices throughout the world.
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