Demand is high for a super system that can promise protection from external threats while organizations’ networks, data and software applications become increasingly interconnected. Since Cisco ...

In this age of worms, zombies, and botnets, mobile computers themselves are a kind of Trojan horse. Do you know where that computer’s been? No, you really don’t. In its most basic form, NAC (network ...

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In today’s world of data theft, worm and virus threats, and the need to comply with federal mandates, incorporating network access control (NAC) technology into your network infrastructure isn’t an ...

According to Steve Hanna, a distinguished engineer at Juniper Networks and the de facto spokesman for the network access control (NAC) industry, the device authentication technology is failing to ...

Network access control represents the most significant change in the way that networks are secured since the invention of the firewall. But it’s also contentious, confusing and – when done right – ...

NAC has trouble giving much information about network devices that can’t be scanned for virus software, operating system patches, firewall configuration and the like. This is particularly true of VoIP ...

In a previous article, I discussed some of the basic features of network access control (NAC) systems. While there are many commercial vendors of NAC systems, turning to an open-source product can ...

If you think currently available Network Access Control technology is going to put that much-needed fence around your organization's most sensitive data, think again. A security research team says it ...

The market for enterprise NAC systems right now is a classic portrait of a market in its infancy. A handful of mostly large vendors, notably Cisco Systems, Symantec and Vernier Networks, dominate the ...