Many switches today support 802.1X authentication, a basic building block in NAC. The key question is what kind of access authenticated users can expect. In the six-test scenarios we developed for ...

Is there such a beast? I've got a heterogenious environment (Linux, Windows, Solaris, VMware) with laptops, workstations and servers, and it's time to implement 802.1x. I'll probably start with the ...

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 ...

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 ...

During the course of our NAC reviews, we also tested Cloudpath Networks’ XpressConnect. XpressConnect is a small, browser-delivered agent that can reconfigure wireless access profiles and 802.1x ...

Hey all, I've been reading up on getting Wireless 802.1x + PEAP in a domain environment for a while now. One thing I never really understood was that if you wanted to also use that same wifi ...