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Roles: driving network access control: In my quest to understand the dynamics of how NAC and identity management are intersecting, I've been reaching out to vendors in the NAC space. To be clear, I view this NAC "space" as a spectrum. On one end of the spectrum, we have folks like Applied Identity, Identity Engines...; Tags: NAC, identity; Blog posts 2006-07-20
Online Screening Service Helps Employers Avoid Hiring Mistakes - And Worms: Most of Information Architects' clients are large employers, including Fortune 500 food, oil, and banking companies and U. S. government agencies. The company needed a solution for suppressing worms. ForeScout's patented technology automatically stops known and "zero-day" worm infections from proliferating through networks, whether they try to enter through remote...; Tags: Hiring, ForeScout, Advertising & Promotion, Food & Beverage, Banking, Marketing, Manufacturing, Financial Services; Case studies

John Cougar Mellencamp on NAC: Much is being made of a presentation at Black Hat by Ofir Arkin of Insightix. In that session, Arkin "raised questions" about the ability of Network Access Control technologies to do what they say they can do. Without the benefit of having actually seen the presentation, my sense of it...; Tags: wall, network, NAC, John Cougar Mellencamp; Blog posts 2006-08-03
NAC is the new provisioning: Provisioning has been the hottest selling identity product as of late. The reason is simple: compliance with legislation and regulation drives the use of provisioning (and de-provisioning) systems. But coming out of the recent Catalyst show, I'm ready to make a bold prediction: Network Access Control NAC is the "new"...; Tags: Network Access Control; Blog posts 2006-06-21
Is Cisco an identity company?: In response to my posting this morning about Symantec coming around to identity management ("Security is like Love"), a commenter asks, "What about Cisco?" The simple answer is "yes," Cisco is also coming around to identity.Network Access Control (or as Cisco calls it, "Network Admission Control") is one of the...; Tags: NAC, identity; Blog posts 2006-05-09

Top-Ten Credit Union Slams Door on Blaster Worm in the Nick of Time: The Blaster worm infected more than one million Windows XP and Windows 2000 systems worldwide in August 2003. Patelco Credit Union - with assets exceeding $3.1 billion and nearly 200,000 members - is one of the largest and most successful financial institutions of its kind in the United States. During...; Tags: Blaster Worm, Microsoft Windows, Viruses And Worms, Security, Operating Systems, Software; Case studies