TNT offers free ID audit for colleges and universities

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: DAVE KEARNS ON IDENTITY MANAGEMENT
10/10/05
Today's focus: TNT offers free ID audit for colleges and
universities

Dear security.world@gmail.com,

In this issue:

* TNT's free ID offer to educational institutions
* Links related to Identity Management
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Today's focus: TNT offers free ID audit for colleges and
universities

By Dave Kearns

After 2004's Catalyst Conference, I told you a little bit about
Trusted Network Technologies (see "Catching up with four ID
mgmt. vendors at Catalyst"
<http://www.networkworld.com/nldsv8336> ) and promised myself
I'd say more about the company when there was time. And even
though I spent time with the company at this year's Catalyst
show, there always seemed to be a story that was more
interesting or more compelling to tell. Since I didn't come up
with the time, the only way it appeared that TNT (and what a
great abbreviation that is) would get a mention is if it came up
with an interesting story to tell. And so it has.

If you could get $10,000 worth of services for free, with no
strings attached, would you be interested?

I've got to tell you up front that this offer is only for
qualified colleges and universities. But the rest of you should
keep reading - no telling when (or how) the program might
change.

Under the rubric of "Identity Now! For Education," TNT will work
with qualified institutions to determine which users and IT
systems to audit. TNT's Identity Audit Services team (I-Team)
will deploy its Identity suite in Audit Mode for two weeks,
including distribution of Identity Drivers to up to 150
identified user workstations.

The initial installation and training will take one day on-site.
At the end of the two-week term, the I-Team will return and
provide four reports that identify and correlate connections of
users, workstations, servers and applications, including unknown
(non-enabled) users. Those reports are:

* A user report showing all connection activity of identified
users.
* A workstation report showing all connection activity of all
identified workstations, as well as unknown or unidentified
users connecting from non-enabled machines.
* A server report showing connection activity of up to five
critical servers identified by the organization.
* An application report showing all user connections to specific
applications.

In addition, the I-team will help you to select four additional
reports from the many that are available with Identity. For
example, organizations that see Audit Mode results often want to
report on connection activities of specific users, groups,
workstations or servers.

Essentially, Identity allows every IP packet to carry its own
digital signature without having to change anything between the
end-points on the network the packet traverses. No public-key
infrastructure, no SSL, no VPN needed; although you might want
to add those things to further enhance your security, TNT
doesn't think most folks will need them. There's a server and
client component to the product, as well as a "gateway"
appliance, which vets and approves (or discards) every packet
coming in. You can read more about Identity in TNT's white
papers, such as "Maintaining Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance with
Identity Auditing and Automated Controls"
<http://www.networkworld.com/nldsv8337>. For lighter, more
entertaining or provocative reading, you should peruse the TNT
Weblog <http://www.knowidentity.typepad.com/>, which is
something I do every day.

To find out more about the "Identity Now! For Education"
program, browse to the ID Now Web page
<http://www.trustednetworktech.com/IDNow/index.htm> where
there's also an application form.

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To contact: Dave Kearns

Dave Kearns is a writer and consultant in Silicon Valley. He's
written a number of books including the (sadly) now out of print
"Peter Norton's Complete Guide to Networks." His musings can be
found at Virtual Quill <http://www.vquill.com/>.

Kearns is the author of three Network World Newsletters: Windows
Networking Tips, Novell NetWare Tips, and Identity Management.
Comments about these newsletters should be sent to him at these

respective addresses: <mailto:windows@vquill.com>,
<mailto:netware@vquill.com>, <mailto:identity@vquill.com>.

Kearns provides content services to network vendors: books,
manuals, white papers, lectures and seminars, marketing,
technical marketing and support documents. Virtual Quill
provides "words to sell by..." Find out more by e-mail at
<mailto:info@vquill.com>
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