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GreenPages Newsletter | July 2007 | Volume 60 | Network Access Control

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Network Access Control:
Enforcing User Focused Access Controls Seamlessly

Network Access Control, NAC, is a simple idea: Authenticate every user connecting to the network, then enforce an access control policy based on who they are and other environmental information, such as end point security checks and wired versus wireless access methods.

What can Network Access Control Enforce?

Network Access Controls can be an appliance or software solution that enforces Identity Management, Endpoint Compliance and a Usage Policy. Let’s define those a little further: Identity Management validates who you are, what you are connecting with, where you are connecting from and when are you trying to connect; all in real time. Endpoint compliance enforces minimum requirements needed on the endpoint to successfully gain access. Usage Policy enforcement protects bandwidth usage and ensures integrity by tracking activity and enforcing acceptable usage policies through identification, notification, problem isolation and corrective action. These three pieces unify the process for controlling and protecting your network and resources.

NAC Compliments Conventional User Security Methods:
Conventional security methods such as Antivirus, Anti-Spyware, Desktop Firewalls, and Operating System Patching alone are not working. As enterprise networks become more dispersed, network administrators are challenged with protecting their borders from un-trusted users as well as trusted users that maybe infected with viruses, spyware and other malware.  In order to minimize a potential outbreak that could spread throughout your network, administrators are implementing end-point inspection and control. 

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Protecting Mobile Data at Risk.
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Lexar Named 2007 XChange XCellence Award Winner For Its Enterprise-Class USB Personal Storage Device

Belkin’s new OmniView KVM-over-IP solutions provide small to medium-size businesses with enterprise-class performance at a reasonable price.

The ProLiant DL585 G2 now supports the new Next Generation AMD Opteron dual-core processor, further increasing the price/performance leadership of this system.

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Request a "Whole Disk Encryption Security Guide" from the encryption experts at PGP Corporation

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Crossing the International Auditing Divide
It's no use trying to run and hide. If companies want to play in the global economy, they'll have to contend with all sorts of regional, national and international auditing practices and corresponding legislation.

The cable industry honors 15 of the nation's most innovative thinkers in school technology. Windows media

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Security

In the news | Just For Fun

The Yahoo Buzz

Feds scramble to meet data breach deadline
Zdnet – With only two months left before government agencies must figure out how to deal with data breaches and data theft, federal bureaucrats are scrambling to meet the looming deadline.

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Harry Potter's dollar magic will live on
With the final book about the boy wizard set to break publishing records, booksellers expect the entire franchise to have a long shelf life.

Potter Marks a Generation of Readers
They were just learning to instant-message their friends when Harry Potter got his first owl from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Yahoo Buzz – July 23, 2007

A subject's buzz score is the percentage of Yahoo! users searching for that subject on a given day, multiplied by a constant to make the number easier to read. Weekly leaders are the subjects with the greatest average buzz score for a given week.

Rank – Subject – Move – Score
1 Gisele Bundchen    +185    273
2 Jessica Biel            +113    263
3 British Open          +198    251
4 Harry Potter           -6       250
5 Tammy Faye Bakker  +150 162
6 Barbara Stanwyck   +95    151
7 Transformers          -5      137
8 WWE                      -10     127

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