One of the first things Microsoft says it will do with its recently announced Network Access Protection, or NAP, is to protect remote access VPNs. It is good to protect the remote end of VPN ...
Burton Group VP and Network World columnist Dan Blum seems to agree with me that Vista belongs on your desktops. Not immediately, he thinks, but following your normal deployment schedule of new ...
At its Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto, Microsoft said it plans to establish NAP as an industry standard. The technology, previously described by some executives as Active Defense technology, ...
Viruses and malware are often stopped by software defenses that run on the desktop; in fact, the antivirus, antispyware and other security suite software business has rapidly become a very lucrative ...
The release of Microsoft's Network Access Protection (NAP) technology has been pushed back two years to coincide with the Longhorn server release, said Samm DiStasio, group product manager for ...
MANHASSET, N.Y. — Microsoft and Cisco Systems will collaborate to make their emerging products for network security compatible, the companies disclosed on Monday (Oct. 18). The vendors had been ...
I see near religious arguments over the use of split tunnel VPNs. Some argue they provide the ability to place the network traffic that is used for maintenance (Windows updating, installation of Click ...
Las Vegas — Interop produced a pact between the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) and Microsoft that seems to keep Cisco Systems' version of network access control (NAC) locked in its own universe for now ...
Network Access Control (NAC) sounds like something of a panacea: technology that can not only authenticate who is using your company’s network, but also ensure that users’ methods of access are ...