The low-down on NAC, Windows-style

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	The low-down on NAC, Windows-style Network World has completed a massive test of 12 network access control systems including the one from Microsoft known as Network Access Protection. NAP is certainly not the most functional NAC implementation we tested, says tester Joel Snyder, "but it has a huge advantage over every other strategy: it's built-in to Windows. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Websense Websense® TRITON™ — Unifying Web, Data, and Email Security Websense TRITON™ is the IT industry's first and only unified content security architecture that integrates best-in class Web, email and Data security technologies into a single solution set. Unrivaled, TRITON brings to market the best security against modern threats at the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO). Click to continue In this Issue Security group stretching payment-card standards cycle to three years Death of Windows XP SP2 Support a Security Risk, Says Report Why security needs to catch up to Web 2.0 Too many data-loss prevention tools become shelfware, says analyst Apple Headed for Privacy Row With iOS 4 Update NAC access control: A multi-dimensional puzzle Biggest tech industry apologies of 2010 – so far Microsoft patching tamed by Qualys tool Friendly Reminder to those who are PCI compliant.. WEP must die in next 12 days. Did the government sit on the 'scareware' case too long? RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: AT&T AT&T Designing Tomorrow's Ethernet-Based Metropolitan Area Networks Click to continue Security group stretching payment-card standards cycle to three years The Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council Tuesday announced it will begin moving to a three-year cycle related to the main technical standards it issues for protection of sensitive payment-card information, allowing merchants and others more time to adopt them. Read More Death of Windows XP SP2 Support a Security Risk, Says Report With Windows XP SP2 support ending in three weeks, a new report highlights the security risks that come with running an unsupported service pack. Read More Why security needs to catch up to Web 2.0 Security managers can keep blocking Facebook, refusing to support mobile devices and vetoing cloud-based services, but they aren't going away. And ignoring ways to make room for them in your security program is like burying your head in the sand, according to Tom Gillis, vice president and general manager of Cisco's security technology business unit, and author of the new book Securing the Borderless Network: Security for the Web 2.0 World. Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Networks, Inc. 7 Key Challenges You Can't Ignore 7 Key Challenges You Can't Ignore 7 Key Challenges You Can't Ignore Too many data-loss prevention tools become shelfware, says analyst The good, the bad and the ugly of data-loss prevention tools and technologies got a solid once over from Gartner analyst Eric Ouellet, who spared no punches during his presentation on the topic during the first day of Gartner's Security & Risk Management Summit. Read More Apple Headed for Privacy Row With iOS 4 Update Apple may be about to get roped into the privacy policy debate that has dogged other technology companies like Facebook and Google over the past few months. On Monday, Apple quietly updated its privacy policy as part of the iOS 4 update to allow the company to collect and share your Apple device's location information, as first reported by The Los Angeles Times . Read More NAC access control: A multi-dimensional puzzle To understand how access control is done in NAC products, you have to look along three dimensions: where access controls are enforced, how access control is communicated, and the granularity of access control. Read More WHITE PAPER: Qualys Inc. Key questions to ask when evaluating solutions Key questions to ask when evaluating solutions Key questions to ask when evaluating solutions Biggest tech industry apologies of 2010 – so far AT&T, Facebook, Google, McAfee, Adobe and others say "We're sorry" for assorted security, privacy and performance problems in 2010. Read More Microsoft patching tamed by Qualys tool Qualys has added a new reporting feature to its vulnerability management service that helps IT staff work out which Microsoft patches to apply and in what order. Read More Friendly Reminder to those who are PCI compliant.. WEP must die in next 12 days. If your business is PCI compliant, you hopefully are already fully aware that June 30th, 2010 is the deadline to be migrated off of WEP in any area of your network that is involved in credit card handling based on PCI definition and your own logical networking design.While I'd generally hope that most people had moved off of WEP years ago, you still see it in some POS systems from time to time. Depending... Read More Did the government sit on the 'scareware' case too long? A few weeks ago when I wrote about federal criminal charges being brought against two alleged cyber criminals in Russia and one in Ohio, I wrote that we could "Score one for the good guys" because law enforcement caught up with some of the often elusive perpetrators of online fraud.But one commentor, "Joseph," wrote that the authorities waited too long to nab Bjorn Daniel Sundin, 31, of Sweden, Shaileshkumar... Read More
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