TNC
December 3rd, 2008 at 12:29pm
Under Advocacy+ TNC
In reply to Chris Hoff’s recent post, covered on this blog here, Steve Hanna of Juniper talked about The Adoption Curve for IF-MAP, the Trusted Computing Group’s standard protocol for connected security. He talks about how adoption follows classic adoption cycles: first the innovators get going, followed by early adopters, early majority, late majority, and [...]
Continue Reading Be an IF-MAP innovator!
Tags: if-map, steve hanna
By Ken Y-N
December 2nd, 2008 at 10:09am
Under Advocacy+ TNC
Mike Fratto had an interesting post on the InformationWeek blog recently, where he described how it’s all very well for companies to have ticked the box in the feature set that says “Supports TNC” (that’s Trusted Network Connect from the Trusted Computing Group), but apparently some of these people are not actually shipping the code, [...]
Continue Reading TNC support: all mouth, no trousers?
Tags: informationweek, mike fratto
By Ken Y-N
November 27th, 2008 at 09:36am
Under Advocacy+ TNC
I recently read a rather interesting post (both the contents and the writing style!) on how the Trusted Computing Group’s (TCG) Interface For Metadata Access Protocol (IF-MAP) should spread to the cloud, in a post by Chris Hoff on his Rational Survivability blog, entitled I Can Haz TCG IF-MAP Support In Your Security Product, Please…. [...]
Continue Reading IF-MAP and Cloud Computing
Tags: chris hoff, cloud computing, if-map
By Ken Y-N
November 25th, 2008 at 01:48pm
Under TNC
Network World recently published a story mentioning the presence of the TCG resources page that I have covered recently, but two tangental parts of the article caught my eye: While TPM has been shipped in thousands and thousands of PCs Make that millions and millions! Then, there was the reason that I don’t mention who [...]
Continue Reading TCG NAC resources, and why I blog pseudo-anonymously
Tags: developer, Lisa Lorenzin, networkworld
By Ken Y-N
October 2nd, 2008 at 05:38pm
Under TNC
This question, what is the Interface for Metadata Access Point (IF-MAP) standard from the Trusted Computing Group’s Trusted Network Connect workgroup? A recent article on Computer Technology Review tried to answer this question. After providing a fictional scenario where IF-MAP can help diagnose network anomalies, the article discusses why the existing Network Access (or Admission, [...]
Continue Reading What is IF-MAP?
Tags: computer technology review, if-map, nac
By Ken Y-N
October 1st, 2008 at 02:27pm
Under TNC
Steve Hanna on his Got the NAC blog recently posted about his experience on the NAC Panel at Interop on the 23rd of September. As mentioned in an earlier post, standards, or more specifically the slow take-up of standards by certain parties (Cisco is apparently a key offender in this respect), is a source of [...]
Continue Reading Steve Hanna on the Interop NAC Panel
Tags: cisco, interop, juniper, nac, steve hanna
By Ken Y-N
September 25th, 2008 at 04:28pm
Under TNC
With NAC, Network Access Control, being a hot topic and with the Trusted Computing Group’s (TCG) Trusted Network Connect (TNC) protocol leading the standardisation race, Cisco is being seen as a bit of a laggard in addressing the emerging standard. During a panel session at Interop in New York recently, there was evidence of perhaps [...]
Continue Reading The NAC interoperability debate
Tags: cisco, internet news, interop, network world
By Ken Y-N
September 25th, 2008 at 11:26am
Under TNC
Mike Fratto of InformationWeek attended the recent NAC Day at Interop, moderating a panel made up of employees of the sponsors. The key message seems to be standardisation, as NAC, Network Access Control, is not a single-product single-vendor solution. The three competing solutions seem to be Cisco’s Network Access Control, Microsoft’s Network Access Protection, and [...]
Continue Reading NAC needs to be vendor-neutral
Tags: informationweek, interop, mike fratto, nac
By Ken Y-N
September 17th, 2008 at 02:23pm
Under TNC
This is the rather corny, if not downright dreadful, title for a panel that was presented at NAC (Network Access Control) Day 2008 yesterday Tuesday 16th. Sorry for being behind the times, but the title was too terrible to pass over the story! Mike Fratto sat in on a panel with the above NAC, NAC [...]
Continue Reading NAC, NAC – What’s There?
Tags: informationweek, interop, nac
By Ken Y-N
September 17th, 2008 at 09:46am
Under TNC
Hyperconnectivity seems to be a new buzzword dreamt up by Canadian social scientists Anabel Quan-Haase and Barry Wellman, and appropriated by Nortel who define it as: [A] megatrend whereby everyone and everything that can benefit from being connected to the network will be connected. So, to support hyperconnectivity Nortel have released SNA 2.0, which is [...]
Continue Reading Hyperconnectivity and secure network access
Tags: hyperconnectivity, nortel
By Ken Y-N