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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, depending [...]
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 frustration [...]
Continue Reading Steve Hanna on the Interop NAC Panel
Tags: cisco, interop, juniper, nac, steve hanna
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 the [...]
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 title, [...]
Continue Reading NAC, NAC - What’s There?
Tags: informationweek, interop, nac
By Ken Y-N
August 19th, 2008 at 01:17pm
Under TNC
Mark Mayne published an interesting look at NAC (Network Access Control) growning pains on the SC Magazine UK blog.
It’s rather a lengthy article, but well-balanced and with quite a bit of information about the Trusted Computing Group’s Trusted Network Connect protocol.
It’s difficult for me to summarise consisly, so just visit the site and read for [...]
Continue Reading The state of NAC
Tags: mark mayne, nac, sc magazine
By Ken Y-N
June 9th, 2008 at 08:47am
Under TNC
The SearchNetworking magazine recently published a long detailed look at new ways to secure networks, including a short look at the Trusted Computing Group’s (TCG) Trusted Network Connect (TNC) workgroup’s proposals. Although there is little specifically relating to the TCG in the article, it’s a good backgrounder nonetheless.
First, the article highlights that security needs are [...]
Continue Reading Where the TNC fits into network security
Tags: nac, searchnetworking
By Ken Y-N
May 8th, 2008 at 04:37pm
Under TNC
The highlight for the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) from the Interop Las Vegas conference must surely be the Trusted Network Connect’s (TNC) new protocol IF-MAP (Interface for Metadata Access Point). This time it was Sean Michael Kerner writing for InternetNews.com waxing lyrical on its merits.
With backing from both Cisco and all the members of the [...]
Continue Reading NAC uniting under the TNC banner
Tags: cisco, if-map, interop, microsoft, nac
By Ken Y-N
April 7th, 2008 at 02:21pm
Under TNC
Network Access Control standards are yet to solidify, as they are still being worked on by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), making slow but hopefully steady progress.
The Trusted Computing Group (TCG) has previous issued standards (Trusted Network Connect or TNC) that their members have agreed to follow, but the number of deployments based on [...]
Continue Reading NAC standards
Tags: ietf, nac
By Ken Y-N
March 12th, 2008 at 03:42pm
Under TCG
Trusted Computing is a real alphabet soup, as a recent article discussing installing NAC, Network Access Control, in corporations for enforcing security policies demonstrated. The options are TNC, the Trusted Network Connect standard from TCG, the Trusted Computing Group, versus the NEA (Network Endpoint Assessment) from IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force), versus Microsoft’s NAP (Network [...]
Continue Reading NAC and TNC
Tags: nac, TNC
By Ken Y-N
