The most significant differences between Microsoft’s Network Access Protection architecture and TCG’s Trusted Network Connect result from the fact that Microsoft doesn’t make switches or routers.

Russell Smith is a technology consultant and trainer specializing in management and security of Microsoft server and client technologies. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with more than 15 ...

One of the first things Microsoft says it will do with its recently announced Network Access Protection, or NAP, is to protect remote access VPNs. It is good to protect the remote end of VPN ...

Viruses and malware are often stopped by software defenses that run on the desktop; in fact, the antivirus, antispyware and other security suite software business has rapidly become a very lucrative ...

At its Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto, Microsoft said it plans to establish NAP as an industry standard. The technology, previously described by some executives as Active Defense technology, ...

SSL VPN product company Aventail Corporation has joined Microsoft's newly launched Network Access Protection program SEATTLE -- Leading SSL VPN product company Aventail Corporation announced it has ...

A recent survey of IT professionals reveals that just under half of them (45 percent) were either "not confident or only slightly confident" that they were aware of all the endpoints connecting to ...

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Microsoft and the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) have joined forces to create better interoperability between network access control solutions with the announcement of a new specification which ensures ...

Network Access Control (NAC) sounds like something of a panacea: technology that can not only authenticate who is using your company’s network, but also ensure that users’ methods of access are ...

Raymond Setchfield explains how Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) serves as a foundation for secure digital transformation.

HP's ProCurve division and Microsoft have developed a way for software products from both companies to work together to produce what they claim is a complete system for managing security. The ProCurve ...