NAC: What went wrong?

	Cisco's NAC goes off track, customers taken aback | Microsoft smacks patch-blocking rootkit second time
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	NAC: What went wrong? After spending four months in the lab testing the 12 leading network access control products, we've come to this conclusion: Five years of hype, buzzwords, white papers, product launches, standards battles and vendor shakeouts have resulted in very little in the way of clarity. Agreement on what NAC really means and the right approach to NAC remain as elusive today as in 2005, when the first NAC products burst on the scene. Read More WHITE PAPER: MessageLabs Ensure 360-Degree Border Security Managing the security and availability of Web, email, and IM is complex. This paper will discuss the modern threat of blended attacks from web, email and IM. and highlight how a comprehensive hosted solution by Symantec Hosted Services can secure your networks from these threat vectors. 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Read Now Cisco's NAC goes off track, customers taken aback As the most important supplier of network infrastructure to enterprises, Cisco's NAC products are a natural point of curiosity for network managers. Unfortunately, though, Cisco's approach to NAC has been riddled with in-fighting, false starts, delayed product releases, and a good dose of chaos and confusion. Read More Microsoft smacks patch-blocking rootkit second time MSRT has scrubbed mutating Alureon rootkit from more than 360,000 Windows-based PCs since May 11. Read More Bugs and Fixes: Security Woes for Windows, McAfee, Firefox The bugs keep marching in, with Microsoft, McAfee, and Mozilla all having to deal with serious security-related software problems in the past month. 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NASA preps advanced technology for the future, now While congress continues to wrangle over the future of specific space agency programs - in particular Read More NAC standards wars end in truce The Trusted Computing Group's Trusted Network Connect (TNC) is an industry-supported working group developing NAC architecture documents and standards. The first public documents came out of TCG's TNC in 2005 after a year of work, and the group has continued to publish NAC standards and fill out their NAC architecture every year. Read More Self-replicating nanobots One of the scariest issues I can think of with respect to nanotechnology is self-replicating nanobots. Read More Google offers SSL searching to boost privacy Google users can now search the Internet using SSL encryption to hide search terms from prying third parties. 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The next-most-common attack, involving a good old Internet Explorer flaw, was far behind at 18 percent. Read More ZoneAlarm adds more stuff to its Free Firewall If you are managing a lot of computers in your home office environment, chances are you're using a free firewall product, and it's probably from CheckPoint's ZoneAlarm division. If you do, there's good news today, as the company has announced a new version with updated features and "more stuff" to consider. The company has added its DefenseNet service (already available on its Pro versions),... Read More Bugnets Could Spy on You via Mobile Devices Imagine sitting in a café and discussing the details of a business proposal with a potential client. Neither you nor the client has a laptop; you're just two people having a conversation. But unbeknownst to you, someone half a world away is listening to every word you say. 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