Softcat Recognised as Cisco ISE Authorised Technology Provider Partner

Industry News Wed 23rd, May 2012 by Dave Simpson
To support the expanding role of access control solutions that leverage the intelligence of the network, Softcat announced today that it has achieved Identity Services Engine (ISE) Authorised Technology Provider (ATP) status from Cisco. This designation recognises Softcat as having fulfilled the training requirements and program prerequisites to sell, deploy and support Cisco ISE products and solutions.

The Cisco ISE platform is a comprehensive, next-generation, contextually-based access control solution that offers exceptional visibility and control to ensure a highly secure enterprise and efficiently enforce security policy across an entire distributed network. The Cisco ISE offers authenticated network access, profiling, posture, and guest management along with monitoring, reporting and troubleshooting capabilities on a single physical or virtual appliance. The Cisco ISE enables 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.

“We are seeing an increasing demand for BYOD solutions from our customers. Every customer is different; we can help them with all aspects of BYOD from endpoint device, network infrastructure, security, as well as storage and server platform.  This latest accreditation is testament to our continued investment in the Cisco relationship and recognition that BYOD is here to stay”. Doug Fawell, Operations Director, Softcat Ltd

The Cisco ATP program is part of the go-to-market strategy for Cisco ISE solutions. The program helps define the knowledge, skills and services that channel partners need to successfully sell, deploy and support ISE solutions.