Cisco’s Network Admission Control can be directly mapped to TCG’s NAC architecture. However, because Cisco is bound by the revenue reality of its installed base, the architecture comprises both ...

Network access control represents the most significant change in the way that networks are secured since the invention of the firewall. But it’s also contentious, confusing and – when done right – ...

Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering cellphone services, broadband, citywide Wi-Fi, the Net neutrality debate and the consolidation of the phone companies. On Monday, ...

Network access control technology was the darling of the security industry in 2006, as vendors spent much of their time squawking about how their NAC offerings could do just about everything but cure ...

Las Vegas — Interop produced a pact between the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) and Microsoft that seems to keep Cisco Systems' version of network access control (NAC) locked in its own universe for now ...

Demand is high for a super system that can promise protection from external threats while organizations’ networks, data and software applications become increasingly interconnected. Since Cisco ...

As it develops the next generation of network security infrastructure, Cisco Systems Inc. is planning to cease development on its network admission control (NAC) client, the Cisco Trust Agent (CTA), ...

Businesses and large institutions dreaming of enforcing consistent security policies are finding solace in network access control, or NAC — programs that establish authentic users, identify network ...

Cisco Systems Inc. said that products are now available for its months-old Network Admission Control, or NAC, program to integrate information technology (IT) security features and policies into ...

Two flaws in Cisco Systems Inc.’s Network Admission Control (NAC) architecture allow unauthorized PCs to be viewed as legitimate devices on a network, according to German security researchers. A tool ...

Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering cellphone services, broadband, citywide Wi-Fi, the Net neutrality debate and the consolidation of the phone companies. The ...