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Despite the fact that network access control hasn’t yet lived up to its initial promise, NAC is very much alive, as evidenced by the fact that 12 vendors participated in our NAC test, including ...

Have you ever heard of ACLs? This is very important where computer security is concerned. In this article, we will discuss what ACLs are, along with the types of ACLs available right now. What is ...

The network is a critical component in the day-to-day operations of any company. As a company becomes more dependent on its network for its most important operations, the IT department must spend more ...

Network access control (NAC) vendors' marketing campaigns may make their products more attractive to companies, but smaller vendors still dominate when it comes to customer retention, according to ...

A set of data associated with a file, directory or other network resource that defines the permissions that users, groups, processes or devices have for accessing it. See access control and wildcard ...

That's the message from a Forrester report on the subject. Titled 'Network Access Control Predictions: 2011 And Beyond', the study says that, despite this low percentile, a good third of companies are ...

A device that functions as an access control point for users in remote locations connecting to a company's internal network or to an ISP. Also called a "media gateway" or a "remote access server" (RAS ...

A Media Access Control (MAC) address, sometimes referred to as a hardware or physical address, is a unique, 12-character alphanumeric attribute that is used to identify individual electronic devices ...