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NAC Video Reviews Are Here

Mike Fratto

January 17, 2008

Adding to our ever-expanding coverage on network access control products, I am starting to post video reviews of the products we have in the lab and should complement our print and online...

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Vernier Networks Video Review

Mike Fratto

January 17, 2008

Vernier Networks video review segments. The videos illustrate the points we make in print and provide you visual context for the review.

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ConSentry Video Review

Mike Fratto

January 17, 2008

ConSentry Networks video review segments. The videos illustrate the points we make in print and provide you visual context for the review.

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Keeping IT Awake All Night

Mike Fratto

January 15, 2008

The SANS Institute's Top 10 Menaces of 2008, developed by panel of security experts, predicts key threats in 2008.

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NAC For Patch Or Patch For NAC

Mike Fratto

January 10, 2008

Deploying a NAC product to keep abreast of patches addresses a symptom and not the problem. Don't do it.

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Correlating NAC Events With Audit Trails

Mike Fratto

January 05, 2008

Network access control can address some compliance and reporting requirements, but truthfully, there is only so much that it can audit effectively.

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The Trusted Computing Group's New Blog

Mike Fratto

December 22, 2007

The Trusted Computing Group, a consortium of vendors who are driving standardized API???s and specifications for secure computing, is perhaps opening up a bit with the new blog recently...

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Acatel-Lucent Partners With InfoExpress

Mike Fratto

December 11, 2007

Partnering with an existing vendor makes sense for ALU and certainly gives InforExpress a leg up with both existing and enterprise customers.

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Cables Not Included

Mike Fratto

December 10, 2007

Remember as a child ripping open your holiday gifts, only to find that batteries were not included? These days, it's cables that will ruin the perfect gift experience.

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Cisco TrustSec: Looks Like A Duck To Me

Mike Fratto

December 10, 2007

Cisco's network-based access control feature (debuting 2008) seems to be analogous to functions like identity-based and role-based access controls that other vendors have had for years...

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NAC Today And Tomorrow

Mike Fratto

December 05, 2007

If the first thought that you have after reading is how complicated the NAC framework is and how potentially fragile it is, then you're not alone. Any large-scale project that involves...

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Access control is about controlling access

Mike Fratto

November 19, 2007

Access control is about controlling access. Reporting on a host???s condition doesn???t tell you much about the potential threat of a host, it only seems to.

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Host assessment does not make a NAC

Mike Fratto

November 16, 2007

Alan Shimel, Chief Strategy Officer for StillSecure, makes the argument that ???with out the pre-connect posture or health check, you don't have NAC.??? I???ll go out on a limb and say it...

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Guest access or federated NAC management?

Mike Fratto

November 15, 2007

Cisco Guest Server lets employees sponsor guests onto your network. This could be the first step toward placing access control decisions with the business user.

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Protecting Data Versus Network Security

Mike Fratto

November 14, 2007

To ensure that your mobile hosts are protected through a host-based NAC or strong desktop configuration management, you need to protect data where it lies and that includes the mobile...

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