Just before Interop in May, the OpenSEA Alliance, a new industry group focused on open software solutions for networking and security, was announced. The OpenSEA Alliance plans to develop a robust, ...

While 802.1X is acknowledged as the most secure way to do NAC authentication, the fear factor accompanying 802.1X is so great that there are more products in our test that avoid 802.1X than work well ...

In the security and wireless networking world, 802.1x is a big deal. This is the Layer 2 protocol that enables device authentication. The protocol helps keep war drivers off wireless networks and is ...

Let’s face it 802.1x has been around for over a decade now and its still not widely deployed and suffers from a bad rap. One of the key reasons for this is that 802.1x suffers from serious operational ...

Recently, T-Mobile announced that they are the firstU.S. Wireless carrier to implement 802.1x (IEEE port-based authenticationalso known asDot1x). This is a huge improvement in the security and ...

So, one of the things I have to deal with is having multiple vlans that must be assigned at the switches everytime we install a new workstation. (We support many customers on our switching fabric, and ...

In the NAC products we tested, authentication varies from very strong to very weak, and every point in-between. When starting down your path of evaluating NAC products, decide very early what kind of ...