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Guide to NAC
This week, we take an in-depth look at network access control: Network executives planning to deploy network access control should start with very specific goals, not intricate schemes to quarantine and remediate insecure devices, shut down badly behaving machines and record every connection each device attempts to make on the network. In addition to a NAC overview, we offer up a face-off (should security appliances be in-line or out-of-band?) and a new NAC breaking news page.
Cisco Subnet
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From the front page of Network World
Daylight Saving changes: No Y2K, but there could be headaches
At first blush it may seem like no big deal: clocks will move ahead by an hour three weeks earlier than usual this year. But for today’s networked businesses, the simple change could mean complex problems if IT shops aren’t prepared, industry experts say.
These VoIP players know the score
It’s a given that with time VoIP will replace traditional voice technology in corporate networks. Sales of IP phone systems have surpassed those of traditional PBXs, and business VoIP will exceed traditional voice by 2010, according to IDC.
Credit card industry struggles to enforce security standard
Major credit card companies have made it mandatory for merchants and payment processors to comply with stringent network security rules that went into effect in mid-2005. But getting buy-in from the millions of companies that handle credit card information remains elusive.
From our blogs and forums
Paul McNamara looks at a skewering of free-software guru Richard Stallman. Users debate whether we’ll ever see all-wireless enterprises – and the implications of wireless security on new laws. James Gaskin and readers debate his contention that Linspire shows Linux is getting easier to use. Mark Gibbs ponders the psychopathy of Apple and Cingular.
How to
Ron Nutter helps a user figure out the “costs” of different kinds of traffic across a WAN. Andrew Lockhart helps a user come up with an 802.1X solution for a small network.
ITVideo
Why does one need an appliance to manage fairly basic application like DNS, DHCP and IP address management? Scale, says BlueCat Networks CEO Michael Hyatt on this week’s Network World Hot Seat.
How does Schwab IT back up a simple promise to customers, but one with security ramifications that ripple throughout the company? Schwab.com’s Kostas Konstantinides explains on this edition of Voices from IT Roadmap.
In depth
Bringing cell coverage inside
As enterprise users rely increasingly on cell phones for voice and e-mail connections, ensuring in-building cellular coverage has become more critical.
How to survive a corporate integration
Some tips about staying afloat when your company is swallowed up in the tide of a merger.
More news
Renewed 3Com router push has open source slant
3Com this week plans to make a fresh run at Cisco and Juniper with an enterprise network strategy focused on embedding security, management and VoIP services from itself and others into its routers and switches.
Satisfaction with software-as-a-service is dropping, but customer interest expands
User satisfaction with software-as-a-service is starting to slip, but customer interest in this method of outsourcing IT functions is continuing to grow, according to survey results released this month by the Cutter Consortium, an IT research and analysis firm.
Virtual Iron teams with rPath to offer pre-configured virtual appliances
Vrtual Iron Software is teaming with rPath, a software company that provides the platform for packaged application appliances, to roll out so-called virtual appliances, pre-configured machines that include an application and operating system.
Net.Worker: Technologies vary for giving telecommuters voice
Telecom and IT administrators charged with supporting telecommuters have as many product and technology options as users have reasons (or excuses) to work from home.
You are wasting time. Find out why
A company that employs 1,000 information workers can expect more than $5 million in annual salary costs to go down the drain because of the time wasted looking for information and not finding it, IDC research found last year.
