Regular readers of this blog know that I’m a huge fan of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project and the XO laptop. A previous OLPC related post may be found here. As a result I follow the OLPC News blog which recently had this great article by 16-year-old Derek Chan on his experience with a [...]
Posts Tagged ‘NAC’
OLPC experience advice for your project
Posted: October 28, 2009 in general, professional, securityTags: NAC, Network Access Control, OLPC, One Laptop Per Child, project management, XO laptop
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Security For All First Birthday: Revisiting Forrester and NAP
Posted: September 6, 2009 in professional, securityTags: BS-O-meter, endpoint security, Forrester, Microsoft, NAC, NAP, Napera, Network Access Control, Network Access Protection
By a fairly large margin the most popular and contentious post in the first year of Security For All [if you discount one entitled Prophecy for 2009 which got tons of hits I suspect by mistake due to the clever title] was the September 24, 2008 post entitled I so want to be a Forrester analyst [...]
7 Lessons SMBs can learn from big IT redux
Posted: November 30, 2008 in professional, securityTags: backup, firewall, IT, NAC, pc, SMB, standard, test plan, UNP, UTM, VoIP, VPN, windows
David Strom has an interesting article in Network World about 7 Lessons That SMBs Can Learn from Big IT. It’s basically sound and definitely worth checking out. But there are some important gotchas and caveats that didn’t make the cut. So I thought I’d just stuff in a few extra ideas and warnings into the [...]
Wherefore art thou TCG IF-MAP?
Posted: November 11, 2008 in professional, securityTags: IF-MAP, NAC, Network Access Control, TCG, TNC
This all started, as many things do, with an article by Hoff wherein this idea was posed. I’m really interested in how many vendors outside of the NAC space are including IF-MAP in their roadmaps. While IF-MAP has potential in convential non-virtualized infrastructure, I see a tremendous need for it in our move to Infrastructure [...]
I so want to be a Forrester analyst
Posted: September 24, 2008 in professional, securityTags: BS-O-meter, endpoint security, Forrester, Microsoft, NAC, NAP, Napera, Network Access Control, Network Access Protection
Now that would be a totally sweet gig. No experience necessary, no research required. Just collect the swag from vendors. Totally sweet deal – sign me up. Now hang on there, that’s harsh – even for you! Yeah, well what conclusion am I supposed to come to with this report on the state of Network [...]
