NAC and endpoint security: The hard questions
SearchSecurity.com | 13 Mar 2007 VIDEO - Joel Snyder covers challenging endpoint security questions and explains how NAC technology can address them.
Sophos finds patching issues through endpoint NAC tool
SearchSecurity.com | 17 Jun 2008 ARTICLE - Companies using Sophos' Endpoint Assessment Test are discovering missing security patches, misconfigured firewalls and missing OS updates.
Forrester: NAC ready for wider deployments
SearchSecurity.com | 01 May 2008 ARTICLE - With vendor consolidation subsiding, NAC technologies are maturing and ready for full scale deployments.
Snyder On Security: An insider's guide to the essentials
Information Security Decisions | 23 Oct 2006 SESSION DOWNLOADS - Joel Snyder, senior partner with consultancy Opus One, provides an in-depth look at information security trends and technologies.
Special considerations for network-based access control
Auerbach Publications | 16 Oct 2006 BOOK CHAPTER - An excerpt from Chapter 13: Access Control of Information Security: Design, Implementation, Measurement, and Compliance, by Timothy P. Layton.
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Learn how to choose NAC services
Information Security Magazine | 01 Oct 2008 HOT PICK & PRODUCT REVIEWS - Figure out the right questions to ask your network access control (NAC) service provider or vendor.
Companies Finding a Place for Maturing NAC Projects
Information Security Magazine | 01 Sep 2008 FEATURES - Four case studies examine how network access control (NAC) projects are faring in the enterprise, and how they're helping with device discovery and policy enforcement, but remediation remains a challenge.
Hot Pick
Information Security Magazine | 01 Dec 2005 HOT PICK & PRODUCT REVIEWS - Citrix Systems' Citrix Access Essentials
Have you discovered that little guidance exists as to specifically what must be done to solve log management problems? This webcast details a consistent, best practices-based method for quickly implementing a successful and sustainable log management program for compliance requirements.
masquerade
20 Nov 2000 WORD - In general, a masquerade is a disguise. In terms of communications security issues, a masquerade is a type of attack where the attacker pretends to be an authorized user of a system in order to gain access to it or to gain ...
Kerberos
03 Mar 2003 WORD - Kerberos is a secure method for authenticating a request for a service in a computer network. Kerberos was developed in the Athena Project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The name is taken from Greek ...
phreak
08 May 2001 WORD - A phreak is someone who breaks into the telephone network illegally, typically to make free long-distance phone calls or to tap phone lines. The term is now sometimes used to include anyone who breaks or tries to break the ...
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