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Product Bulletin, No. 1736

Introduction

Timeline

EOS Part Numbers Affected:

Product Substitution

Product Bulletin, No. 1736

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End-of-Sale Announcement for
Cisco Secure Scanner (Netsonar)

Introduction

Cisco is announcing the end of sale (EOS) of the standalone Cisco Secure Scanner (formerly NetSonar) vulnerability assessment product. There will be no further feature development or vulnerability updates for the standalone product. Cisco considers the collaboration between vulnerability assessment technologies and other security technologies to be paramount and is refocusing development efforts to pursue integration of this important technology into future management applications.

Timeline

Event	Date	Definition
End-of-Sale Internal Announcement	April 1, 2002	Cisco Secure Scanner EOS internal announcementpublished to field
End-of-Sale External Announcement	May 15, 2002	Cisco Secure Scanner external announcement published on Intrusion Detection System (IDS) Web site
End of Orderability	June 15, 2002	Cisco Secure Scanner software no longer orderable; no longer included in platform bundles as complimentary software; no replacements after this date
End of Contract Renewal	July 31, 2002	Last day a full year SAS/U contract can be renewed
End of Engineering	July 31, 2003	No software bug fixes orpatches after this date
End of Support	July 31, 2003	End of support from Cisco TAC

EOS Part Numbers Affected:

NS-201-S-2500

NS-201-NT-2500

NS-20-NT-2500

NS-101-S-2500

NS-1.0.1-SOL-CLASSC

NS-1.0.1-SOL-250

NS-1.0.1-SOL-500

NS-1.0.1-SOL-1000

NS-1.0.1-SOL-2500

NS-1.0.1-SOL-5000

NETSONAR-S2001

NETSONAR-S2002

NETSONAR-S2003

NETSONAR-S2004

NETSONAR-S2005

NETSONAR-S2006

NETSONAR-S2010

Product Substitution

Current customers are encouraged to investigate other alternatives for their vulnerability assessment needs.

For information purpose only, provided below are vendors that provide technology or services for vulnerability assessment. Mention of the following vendors constitutes neither an endorsement nor a recommendation from Cisco. Cisco does not accept or assume any responsibility for any product or services obtained through these vendors.

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Qualys
Matthew Palmer
1600 Bridge Parkway
Redwood Shores, CA 94065
650.801.6178
http://www.qualys.com/

Vigilante
0404 South West Mount
Adams Drive
Beaverton, OR 97007
Telephone: 503-579-3464
Fax: 503-579-7765
http://www.vigilante.com/

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