 | Malware-fighting firewalls miss the mark
In the beginning was the firewall, and it was pretty good. A big box of rules that sat between your network and the evils of the Internet, the firewall examined ports and protocols to decide which packets got in and which were barred at the door. Then things got, as things often do, complicated. New threats came sneaking in on trusted protocols, ports and protocols became tangled, and looking inside packets became just as important as noting their source, destination, and type. InfoExpress latest NAC vendor to push services
InfoExpress is introducing a managed network access control service designed to reduce the ongoing costs of network access protection and provide better technical support than many businesses could afford in-house. The Compliance, Authorization, and Rogue Enforcement (CARE) service is based on InfoExpress's CyberGatekeeper software running on hardware owned by customers but managed via VPN by InfoExpress. Why is NAC so confusing?
Standards, definitions, competition...there's lots of reasons. Among them: People have different definitions of NAC, separate standards are being developed, alliances among vendors are complex, the technology itself can be implemented in many ways and some of it is still only on talk. |
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