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When Cisco Systems announced in June 2004 that it planned to develop network access control technology, it drew enormous attention to what had been an obscure market niche.

Symantec is readying a new application for enterprise PCs that will integrate security and network policy enforcement technology the company picked up from recent acquisitions.

Cisco Systems has announced an enhanced version of its Network Admission Control (NAC) technology designed to help protect corporate networks against threats from insecure endpoint devices such as PCs and notebook computers.

Symantec will buy security compliance software vendor BindView Development for US$209 million in cash, it announced Monday.

Symantec has agreed to acquire Sygate Technologies, a security software company that sells software designed to enforce network security policies in the enterprise.

Hoping to whet the appetite of developers specializing in mobile and embedded devices, Microsoft on Monday made available a free technology preview of Windows XP Embedded containing Service Pack 2 (SP2) that it expects to deliver by year's end.

Sygate Technologies is unveiling this week the latest revision of Secure Enterprise (SSE), its host-based security product that locks down end points by monitoring for policy compliance. Although the core focus of the product remains the same -- those hoping to see an interface change will be disappointed -- version 4.0 has added some interesting features since we the previous version.

In the middle of last year it seemed the onslaught would never end. One after another, a progression of worms and other malware threatened to bring down systems as enterprises floundered in a morass of unpatched vulnerabilities and malicious e-mails opened by unwary employees.

What's the difference between a PC sitting on a desktop at company headquarters dedicated to work and one on a kitchen countertop that an employee occasionally uses for work - when family members aren't e-mailing friends, paying bills, researching school projects or playing games on it? Nothing, according to a growing number of enterprise security managers.

Everdream announced on Monday that it is bolstering its Managed Desktop Services solution to include future delivery of Web services capability for IT asset management and is branching out to support major PC platforms and more complicated software packages including Tivoli, Intel LANDesk, and Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS).

Aiming to add new layers and strength to the security that keeps remote workers safely connected to corporate networks, Sygate Technologies Inc. will release version 2.0 of its Sygate Secure Enterprise suite Monday.