In a world where data breaches seem to be happening more frequently, and more employees work remotely, businesses are looking for ways to tighten security on their networks. One way to do this is by ...

Network access control is the process of controlling users’ and devices’ access to a network. Because of increased employee mobility and the growing number of end-user network-capable devices, ...

Where is access control heading in the next five years? A major trend today that will continue into the future is the convergence of access control and other security systems as network devices: ...

Despite the fact that network access control hasn’t yet lived up to its initial promise, NAC is very much alive, as evidenced by the fact that 12 vendors participated in our NAC test, including ...

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Juniper Networks last week sought to tip the scale in favor of an approach based on industry standards when it introduced the latest version of its Unified Access Control suite. UAC 2.0 provides ...

Sierra Central Credit Union in Yuma City, Calif., prides itself on being an open institution, allowing customers to pay bills online and transfer funds by phone. Daniel Diadiw’s job is to make sure it ...

Network access control solutions ensure that the devices that connect to the corporate network are in line with established security policies and that laptops are free of viruses, worms and other ...

From the perspective of end users, a Network Access Control deployment should be transparent, as if it’s running all by itself. As users log on to the network, their systems should be checked, quietly ...

Network access control is a huge topic of discussion in IT and a focus of activity among vendors. Over time, the acronym NAC has become almost generic through overuse, and its definition varies. When ...

That's the message from a Forrester report on the subject. Titled 'Network Access Control Predictions: 2011 And Beyond', the study says that, despite this low percentile, a good third of companies are ...