Many organizations have put off the deployment of IEEE 802.1X authentication for years while waiting for networking and computing vendors to make it easier. Earlier this year, the IT team at Brigham ...

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.1x standard is and why you should care means understanding three separate concepts: PPP, EAP and 802.1x itself. Point-to-Point Protocol ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the network access control 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 ...

Meetinghouse Data Communications is making available a free, downloadable network authentication software package for Linux operating systems. The client-side or supplicant software package ...

When WEP's flaws became apparent, the wireless industry started developing new protocols to address the published weak points. These new protocols grew up around the IEEE 802.1x framework, which is a ...