NAC, virtualisation and cloud security

Posted by Ken Y-N on April 14th, 2010 at 03:57pm

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 runs on the endpoint (antivirus, policies and so on) and the stuff that needs to run in the network (firewalls, intrusion detection/prevention) while applying policies dynamically as each endpoint "arrives on the scene".

His NAC solution of choice is that from the Trusted Computing Group’s Trusted Network Connect architecture, which he reckons is a good fit for virtualisation and The Cloud in general.

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