Forrester: NAC ready for wider deployments
SearchSecurity.com | 01 May 2008 ARTICLE - With vendor consolidation subsiding, NAC technologies are maturing and ready for full scale deployments.
Security Wire Weekly: Sizing up the NAC market
SearchSecurity.com | 14 Feb 2008 ARTICLE - Information Security magazine's Neil Roiter discusses the state of the Network Access Control market.
Experts: NAC not dead, just immature
SearchSecurity.com | 17 Jan 2008 ARTICLE - NAC adoption has not been as robust as many vendors had hoped, and experts say the reason is a lack of market maturity -- not a lack of interest in the technology.
Making the NAC decision: Open source vs. commercial network access control products
28 Jan 2008 EXPERT ANSWER - There are now a number of free and open source network access control (NAC) products, but how do they stack up against the commercial options? Network professional Mike Chapple reviews the free alternatives, but also warns ...
Snyder On Security: An insider's guide to the essentials
Information Security Decisions | 23 Oct 2006 SESSION DOWNLOADS - Joel Snyder, senior partner with consultancy Opus One, provides an in-depth look at information security trends and technologies.
Special considerations for network-based access control
Auerbach Publications | 16 Oct 2006 BOOK CHAPTER - An excerpt from Chapter 13: Access Control of Information Security: Design, Implementation, Measurement, and Compliance, by Timothy P. Layton.
masquerade
20 Nov 2000 WORD - In general, a masquerade is a disguise. In terms of communications security issues, a masquerade is a type of attack where the attacker pretends to be an authorized user of a system in order to gain access to it or to gain ...
Kerberos
03 Mar 2003 WORD - Kerberos is a secure method for authenticating a request for a service in a computer network. Kerberos was developed in the Athena Project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The name is taken from Greek ...
phreak
08 May 2001 WORD - A phreak is someone who breaks into the telephone network illegally, typically to make free long-distance phone calls or to tap phone lines. The term is now sometimes used to include anyone who breaks or tries to break the ...
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