network world
January 30th, 2011 at 03:00pm
Under MTM+ TPM
I came across an interesting article in Network World discussing issues surrounding the rumoured iPhone with NFC (RFID) payment chip. Jeff Nigriny, the CEO of identity management and security firm CertiPath, says that: [I]t would make the most sense for device manufacturers and software designers to separate the iPhone’s payment function from other apps using [...]
Continue Reading Network World suggests there should be a TPM in iPhones
Tags: globalplatform, iphone, network world
By Ken Y-N
September 27th, 2010 at 03:55pm
Under General
There was a quite amusing article from Ellen Messmer of Network World, who attended the NSA Trusted Computing Conference and Exposition at Florida as a member of the press, and although she was only allowed to attend basically one of the three days, she managed to get a ticket to an evening party, only to [...]
Continue Reading How to get thrown out of an NSA party
Tags: network world, nsa
By Ken Y-N
April 14th, 2010 at 03:57pm
Under TNC
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
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