Obtaining device posture of a third party managed device

A method, comprising:

• embedding in a registration communication sent from a third party managed device configured to be managed by a third party management entity to an access node associated with a first party management entity a unique identifier of the third party managed device;
• sending the registration communication sent from the third party managed device to the access node;
• and
• publish a management agent of the third party managed devices as an authenticator upon successful completion of a registration process with which the registration communication is associated;
• wherein the access node is configured to store data associating the unique identifier with the third party managed device, and to use the unique identifier to obtain from the third party management entity device posture information for the third party managed device.

A computer program product embodied in a non-transitory computer readable medium, the computer program product comprising computer instructions for:

• embedding in a registration communication sent from a third party managed device configured to be managed by a third party management entity to an access node associated with a first party management entity a unique identifier of the third party managed device;
• sending the registration communication sent from the third party managed device to the access node;
• and
• publish a management agent of the third party managed devices as an authenticator upon successful completion of a registration process with which the registration communication is associated;
• wherein the access node is configured to store data associating the unique identifier with the third party managed device, and to use the unique identifier to obtain from the third party management entity device posture information for the third party managed device.