| Network access control: hot technology for '09 NAC has reached a turning point, with standards battles ended and enterprises ready to deploy to move on to the next step with this security technology. NetClarity claims its NACs are eco-friendly NetClarity is making the pitch that it is the greenest of the NAC vendors, and maybe it is. It has three points to this claim: the tiny version of its NAC appliance, EasyNAC Micro doesn't use as much electricity as most other NAC boxes; the company buys energy credits with renewable energy groups to offset the power the devices use; and the company’s Endpoint Defender NAC agent includes a tool that enables shutting down unnecessary and power-consuming desktop functions. NAC won't get its own year This time of year, people make predictions about what the coming year will bring, and in technology circles that comes down to things like, "Next year will be the year of [name the technology]." Cisco no longer supports third-party VPN links Cisco to customers: We only support ASA IPsec LAN-to-LAN VPNs with other Cisco peers. Enforcing regulatory compliance standards with NAC NAC is often used as one tool for enforcing regulatory compliance standards and then proving that the standards were met. Autonomic Networks ARMS your network Recently a reader e-mailed to say that the Web site for former NAC vendor Vernier Networks was up and running again. 2009 security predictions: Deja vu all over again The security industry is fueled largely by FUD (Fear Uncertainty and Doubt.) So it's not unusual for most forecasts in the industry to be full of grim prognostications of imminent chaos and calamities. Quantum Encryption VPNs - Totally Unhackable The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), with funding from DARPA, has successfully tested a multi-node, 1.25Gbps active network that uses Quantum Encryption. January giveaways from Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet
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