Mike Fratto

Andy Dornan podcast on NAC

July 30, 2007

Andy Dornan and Andrew Braunberg of Current Analysis joins Alan Shimel and Mitchell Ashley from StillSecure, on a podcast discussing NAC. Much of the discussion is based on a user survey...

Data Practices Gone Bad

July 27, 2007

Still think P2P file sharing is a major culprit of data loss?

802.1X deployments affect IT process

July 27, 2007

I received this email the other day: "I went through your article regarding NAC, and would like to ask you one question more to the part of the topic, which was not mentioned. When we...

P2P a national threat. Your tax dollars at waste.

July 26, 2007

Can someone with a clue run down to Capital Hill and talk some sense to our Congress People, please? There is apparently a bru-ha-ha rising about P2P file sharing and how it is a National...

Performance Anxiety

July 24, 2007

Whenever a new technology hits the streets, the question of whether it can keep up with network traffic quickly follows and with good reason. If a product becomes a network bottle neck or...

Knowing What You Need

July 19, 2007

Yesterday, I spent about four hours yesterday configuring a Cisco Aironet 1240AG access point, a Cisco 3750 switch, and an HP Procurve switch to authenticate hosts using 802.1X against a...

All NAC, all The Time

July 07, 2007

Welcome to the NAC Immersion Center. The goal of this site is to cover the pertinent information about NAC technology, products, and practices. We will conduct product reviews, writing...

Making a Test Bed

July 06, 2007

In setting up the test bed for a series of NAC reviews, I ran into some interesting issues some of which I want to lay out here and some I will explore more in depth later (at some point, I...

Wireless Infrastructure

Here's mud in your iPhone

June 29, 2007

I don't care about the iPhone. Unless Apple wants to buy out my current contract with Verizon Wireless or Verizon Wireless wants to start carrying the iPhone, I know that I won't be buying...

Microsoft TCG/TNC Announcement

May 24, 2007

While at Interop, I had the chance to talk to Stephen Hanna, Distinguished Engineer at Juniper and Co-chair of the Trusted Computing Group Trusted Network Connect working group and Paul...

It's all about the policy

May 23, 2007

The Trusted Computing Group Trusted Network Connect published Microsoft???s Statement of Health protocol (SoH) which lets NAP clients send health information to a Policy Decision Point (PDP...

Eye Candy or Smart Presentation

April 10, 2007

Let's face it, network monitoring is not fun or interesting. It's downright boring. Scanning line graphs, bar charts, pie charts, and (ick) tabular data is tedious....

Cisco Trust Agent not going open source

February 10, 2007

According to Neil Wu Becker, PR Manger, Security, for Cisco, "Cisco is NOT open-sourcing CTA, nor do we have any plan to do so. We're not even considering it -- it's not something on our...

Changing face of capacity planning

February 02, 2007

If you???re still thinking of network capacity planning as speeds and feeds, then take a deep breath. Electrical power may well become the limiting factor in equipment purchases. Low...

Extended Validation Certs don't help