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 ...

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 ...

REDMOND, Wash. — Feb. 1, 2007 — More than 100 networking and security partners have pledged support for and integration with Microsoft® Network Access Protection (NAP), a policy enforcement platform ...

Alert reader Mike Davis points out that in last week’s look at R2, the Windows Server 2003 update that’s due out next year, I neglected to mention one new feature that he’s especially looking forward ...

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 ...

LAS VEGAS — May 21, 2007 — Juniper Networks Inc. (NASDAQ: JNPR) and Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) today announced the companies are working together to provide customers and partners with open ...

Network access control technology was the darling of the security industry in 2006, as vendors spent much of their time squawking about how their NAC offerings could do just about everything but cure ...

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 ...

There’s a new kid on the network security block, and it seems to have a lot of names. Cisco Systems Inc. can’t decide what to call it, sometimes using Network Admission Control and sometimes referring ...