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 ...

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 ...

Network access control technology was the darling of the security industry in 2006, as vendors spent much of their time squawking about how their NAC offerings could do just about everything but cure ...

Google Chrome is exploring an innovative way to prevent malicious websites from breaching people’s home networks. The browser will soon receive a feature dubbed “Private Network Access protections” ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Confusion over how to handle requests for 0.0.0.0 has exposed a security vulnerability in multiple browsers. Attackers could use this method to bypass Private Network Access protection. Google’s got a ...

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