Written by jj
Monday, March 8th, 2010
After catching a quick glimpse of Alan’s post on the Evolution of NAC, I popped over to the Infonetics site to download the whitepaper his post was referring to.
It’s a short 5-pager that will only take a few moments to read, so I encourage you to check it out. For those of you that read my articles and blog, I want to provide a response, noting several things I liked in the report, a few things I think are misleading, and a couple of items that are complete crap (sorry Jeff). (more…)
Hi everyone! I know I’ve been missing in action yet again, so I thought I’d give you all a quick update. I’ve been on site quite a bit recently, working on various customer projects and security implementations.
I’m spending time in the coming weeks in the lab here; mostly working on access control, port security, 802.1X and possibly even some NAC/NAP proof of concepts. (more…)
Part II of the Clearing Up 802.1X Series
Securing Multiple Device Authentication on 802.1X
VLANs and Multiple Device Authentication
I always say the road to insecurity is paved with good intentions, and implementations of 802.1X are some of the best examples. I find folks tend to be so excited if-and-when they get 802.1X working, that they don’t bother to put it through the ringer and see what’s actually happening on the switch once it’s working. (more…)
Part I of the Clearing Up 802.1X Series
Multiple Device Authentication and Mixed Authentication
Pure vs Applied 802.1X
There are a couple of issues mentioned in Mike’s and Richard’s posts that I’d like to address with the current 802.1X standard (802.1X-2004) as it relates to multiple device authentication. (more…)