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August 1st, 2010 at 03:51pm
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An interesting article on the Trusted Computing Group’s (TCG) Infrastructure-Metadata Access Point (IF-MAP) specification has the curious quote that I have used as the title for this article: "IF-Map is Facebook for endpoint devices," said Matt Webster, product management director at Lumeta and cochair of TCG’s Trusted Network Connect (TNC) workgroup, which developed the IF-MAP [...]
Continue Reading IF-Map is Facebook for endpoint devices
Tags: george lawton, if-map
By Ken Y-N
April 30th, 2010 at 04:42pm
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The official Trusted Computing Group blog recently announced that the certification program for Trusted Network Connect is now up and running. The first products to get certified are two devices from Juniper Networks and the TNC@FHH open source implementation of the TNC protocol. I think it’s great from not just a purely technical viewpoint that [...]
Continue Reading TNC certification program announced
Tags: juniper, tnc@fhh
By Ken Y-N
April 21st, 2010 at 04:20pm
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The Trusted Computing Group’s Trusted Network Connect working group held their fifth annual plugfest, where fourteen TNC implementations were tested over three days to see how well they played together. Read the linked full report on the TCG web site to see how they all got on.
Continue Reading TNC’s latest plugfest report
Tags: plugfest
By Ken Y-N
April 14th, 2010 at 03:57pm
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Network World recently published an article by Andreas M. Antonopoulos looking at how security works (or doesn’t) in the cloud. The basis will be NAC, Network Access Control, as: With NAC you have endpoints (laptops, smartphones, desktops, printers) connecting to switches ad-hoc and in a transient fashion. Security must be coordinated between the stuff that [...]
Continue Reading NAC, virtualisation and cloud security
Tags: cloud computing, nac, network world
By Ken Y-N
March 26th, 2010 at 05:19pm
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I seem to be coming across a lot of video recently, so here is Steve Hanna doing a keynote at Interop Mumbai 2009 on Coordinated Security: A New Paradigm. I got the link from Fix Internet Problems, but I’ll directly inline the five-part YouTube videos into the post.
Continue Reading Video: Steve Hanna at Interop Mumbai 2009
Tags: interop, mumbai
By Ken Y-N
March 26th, 2010 at 05:08pm
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I am always a bit concerned that if I search the Trusted Computing Group’s web site for "cloud" nothing jumps out at me, so I was pleased to see a detailed analysis of cloud security on Cloud Computing Journal by Steve Hanna of Juniper and the TNC workgroup of the TCG. It’s a subject I [...]
Continue Reading Cloud security and Trusted Computing
Tags: cloud computing
By Ken Y-N
March 24th, 2010 at 03:02pm
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SC Magazine recently published an interesting article regarding CESP, Clientless Endpoint Support Profile, a new schema from the TCG that standardises how to handle devices such as printers, VoIP phones, etc that don’t have a TNC (Trusted Network Connect) client stack on them. With this standardised schema, even dumb endpoints can be managed in a [...]
Continue Reading Don’t expose your network to the risk of naked endpoints
Tags: cesp, sc magazine
By Ken Y-N
March 14th, 2010 at 04:09pm
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I got the above image from an article on Security Uncorked about the IETF publishing the TNC specs. I hope she doesn’t mind me borrowing her graphics!
Continue Reading More on the IETF publishing the TNC specifications
Tags: ietf, security uncorked
By Ken Y-N
March 12th, 2010 at 03:01pm
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The latest bit of good news about Trusted Computing Group standards taking over the world has been the announcement by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the consortium that basically decides the standard protocols for the internet, that they have accepted and published two of the Trusted Network Connect (TNC) work group’s standards. The two [...]
Continue Reading TNC standards become IETF standards!
Tags: ietf
By Ken Y-N
February 16th, 2010 at 03:44pm
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I picked up an interesting article on The Register today about Juniper’s new mobile client security software named Junos Pulse, which seems to implement the Trusted Computing Group’s Trusted Network Connect on a smartphone, with Microsoft Windows Mobile and Symbian OS listed as partners, and I wouldn’t be in the least surprised if RIM’s BlackBerry [...]
Continue Reading Juniper feels the mobile pulse
Tags: juniper, junos pulse
By Ken Y-N