Making contextual judgments about access before authentication

Cisco TrustSec attempts to serve as, essentially, a 'triage' facility before network authentication occurs Security: Identity Management Alert NetworkWorld.com | Security Research Center | Update Your Profile Sponsored by Dell Why virtualization? Why now? In this video, our speakers tackle these questions, explaining how virtualization technology has become more mainstream. Businesses are under pressure to ease management and reduce costs, while retaining and enhancing competitive advantages, such as flexibility, reliability, scalability and security. Watch now to see how virtualization can help address these demands. Spotlight Story Making contextual judgments about access before authentication By Dave Kearns Regular readers will know that I'm a big fan of context-based access. I like the idea of gathering as much context information as possible and using it for authentication and authorization as well as governance and entitlement. 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