Cisco IronPort

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Challenge

Cisco IronPort devices provide an Anti-Spam/Anti-Virus layer into corporate email infrastructure. These powerful standalone devices filter email before it reaches the internal email SMTP server, and will quarantine suspicious messages. Cisco IronPort can be configured to use an external LDAP resource such as an Active Directory to handle authentication to the quarantined storage.

Unfortunately, Cisco IronPort devices currently only support the use of a single LDAP resource to handle authentication. This means that for enterprises that handle authentication across multiple domains or user repositories, the Cisco IronPort device cannot be adequately configured to handle authentication for all domains or repositories.

Solution

Cisco IronPort Solution

Symlabs LDAP Proxy can be used to extend authentication to multiple domains and/or user repositories, through the abstraction layer created with our product. This results in easy integration of new domains with the Cisco IronPort device, allowing the device to authenticate new users from new domains within a matter of minutes and with minimal configuration change and no interruption of service to the actual Cisco IronPort device. By combining user repositories through the single point of access provided by LDAP Proxy, it is possible to avoid data replication or synchronization to achieve integration in a few easy steps.

Benefits

Extend authentication mechanisms to multiple data repositories and across domains.
Easy addition of new sources of users to the use of Cisco IronPort.

About Cisco IronPort

Cisco IronPort email security appliances are the most sophisticated systems available today. In production at eight of the ten largest ISPs and more than 20 percent of the world's largest enterprises, these systems have a demonstrated record of unparalleled security and reliability. The same code base that powers IronPort's most sophisticated customers is available in all of IronPort's email security appliances, to protect enterprises of all sizes. By reducing the downtime associated with spam, viruses and a wide variety of other threats, these products enable the administration of corporate mail systems and reduce the burden on technical staff. IronPort's email security appliances support and protect your email systems' not only from today's threats, but from those certain to evolve in the future.