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, ...

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 ...

Microsoft’s Network Access Protection (NAP) serves as a good foundation for securing Windows network infrastructure. Nevertheless, you can usefully expand NAP’s capabilities with applications that ...

At The Security Standard conference in Boston this week, the two companies are demonstrating an interoperable architecture that will enable customers to use both Cisco's Network Admission Control (NAC ...

Mike Schutz, group product manager of Security and Access Products at Microsoft has an interesting article up at the Microsoft TechNet Web site headlined: “Microsoft Is Committed to Interoperability ...

LAS VEGAS -- Interop -- The NAC wars are over, apparently, and Microsoft won. The software giant here yesterday revealed an agreement with the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) that will make Microsoft's ...

After nearly two years and a lot of suspected smoke-and-mirrors, Cisco Systems and Microsoft yesterday revealed a joint architecture that pairs each of the tech giants' network access security ...

LAS VEGAS -- Trusted Computing Group (TCG), which develops open standards for computing security, and Microsoft Corp., a TCG member and active participant, today announced at Interop Las Vegas 2007 ...

Napera's plug-and-play network access control appliance brings NAP services to Windows and Mac OS X, without the use of Windows Server 2008 Napera N24 is a 24-port switch and Amazon-based Web ...