Ultimate guide to network access control products

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	Ultimate guide to network access control products Despite the fact that network access control hasn't yet lived up to its initial promise, network access control is very much alive, as evidenced by the fact that 12 vendors participated in our network access control test, including industry leaders Microsoft, HP, Juniper, McAfee, Symantec and Alcatel-Lucent. Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco Ironport Systems Learn the 3 Best Practices for Securing E-mail Any IT manager will tell you it's critical to protect data. With information flowing freely today via mobile devices, collaboration technologies and unified communications, it isn't easy. Learn data leak prevention (DLP) triage and the steps to protect proprietary data in e-mail, while also complying with government and industry regulations. Read now! In this Issue Network access control vendors pass endpoint security testing Network access control management: Pick your poison Cisco NAC: Strong in-line enforcement Juniper NAC: Powerful, complex McAfee NAC focuses on endpoint protection Enterasys NAC: Put it on your short list ForeScout focuses on network visibility Supreme Court Sides with Employers in Narrow Ruling Spies, WikiLeaks, and hackers, oh my! Avenda offers full-featured network access control Alcatel-Lucent/InfoExpress combo needs better integration Network access control authentication: Are you ready for 802.1X? Make Facebook, Twitter and other sites more secure with HTTPS Everywhere How To use Gmail to safely access email from abroad WHITE PAPER: Hitachi Data Systems Optimizing HA and DR in Microsoft® Virtualized Environments This white paper discusses how organizations can leverage the joint Microsoft and Hitachi solution to create a cost effective, highly available and remotely replicated virtual server infrastructure. Read Now Network access control vendors pass endpoint security testing One of the main promises of NAC is that you can ensure that endpoint security tools are up to date and that non-compliant machines can be identified or blocked. As regulatory compliance has grown in importance, NAC vendors have reacted by building strong feature sets aimed at endpoint security and compliance. In our NAC testing, we had good, and sometimes great, results across the board when it came to endpoint security. Read More Network access control management: Pick your poison In testing 12 NAC products, we discovered an incredible variety of management styles. To organize our results, we broke things up into three main categories: overall management, separation of control, and high availability. Read More Cisco NAC: Strong in-line enforcement While Cisco's overall NAC strategy is in flux, a NAC Appliance investment is likely to come with substantial purchase protection — just be sure to keep your SMARTnet contract up to date. Read More Juniper NAC: Powerful, complex Trying to describe Juniper's UAC is difficult, because Juniper's NAC strategy has its tendrils in virtually every security product the company makes, from firewalls to switches to SSL VPNs. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: AT&T AT&T Designing Tomorrow's Ethernet-Based Metropolitan Area Networks Click to continue McAfee NAC focuses on endpoint protection McAfee NAC is clearly slanted towards endpoint security and compliance requirements more than fine-grained network access controls. Because McAfee NAC depends heavily on ePolicy Orchestrator, existing McAfee end-point security customers will find that adding McAfee's NAC to their networks is a very natural and easy extension. Read More Enterasys NAC: Put it on your short list Enterasys has done a good job making sure that its NAC product works very well in non-Enterasys networks. Because Enterasys NAC has both in-line and edge-enforcement technologies in a single product line, we think that this is a definite short-list for any 802.1X-based NAC deployment. Read More ForeScout focuses on network visibility ForeScout's CounterACT has a very different take on NAC; the closest competitor is really Trustwave. In CounterACT's framework, the appliance scans network traffic to classify devices as they join the network. Read More Supreme Court Sides with Employers in Narrow Ruling Six months after agreeing to consider a case regarding employee privacy rights in the workplace, the United States Supreme Court has ruled. Unfortunately for the Ontario police officers involved in the controversial case, and former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, the Supreme Court found that employers have a right to employ reasonable monitoring efforts on state-issued devices. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aerohive Deploying a Secure WLAN This paper walks through the steps to build a highly-secure wireless LAN and explains the technical considerations for: • Wireless privacy • Authentication • Client management and NAC • Network firewall and intrusion detection and protection • Identity-based access control • Rogue detection and WIDS • Compliance Read more! Spies, WikiLeaks, and hackers, oh my! It's like a Hollywood thriller. A military spy is arrested, betrayed by someone he thought to be a comrade in arms -- a brilliant yet mentally disabled hacker. A journalist is on the run, hunted by the authorities who want to know what he knows. All it needs is a love interest and Matt Damon, and I think we can get this greenlit. (When I get through with this blog post I'm going to have my agent call Spielberg and set up a lunch.) Read More Avenda offers full-featured network access control At its core, Avenda's eTIPS is a RADIUS server specifically designed for NAC authentication and access controls. Avenda gives authentication, endpoint security checking, and policy enforcement equal weight, making eTIPS a very well balanced NAC product. Read More Alcatel-Lucent/InfoExpress combo needs better integration Together, the two vendors offer a complete framework and a wide set of hardware options. The result is interoperable parts that network managers can combine to give different types of NAC enforcement in different network topologies. Read More Network access control authentication: Are you ready for 802.1X? In the NAC products we tested, authentication varies from very strong to very weak, and every point in-between. When starting down your path of evaluating NAC products, decide very early what kind of authentication mechanism you want, if any. Read More Make Facebook, Twitter and other sites more secure with HTTPS Everywhere A new plugin for Firefox from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and The Tor Project allows you to encrypt all of the information you send to popular sites such as Facebook, Twitter and other popular sites. This means any information you send will be encrypted in transit and fairly safe from snooping and sniffing. Read More How To use Gmail to safely access email from abroad If you can't bear to be parted from your email inbox when you venture abroad, it's important to ensure that the wireless connection you're using to get online is secure. Read More
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