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Trusting in 802.1X Endpoint Security
Friday, 13 May 2005, 09:21 GMT

The Trusted Computing Group (TCG), a non-profit dedicated to creating standards for making trustworthy and secure computers and networks, earlier this month announced its Trusted Network Connect (TNC) specification. TNC is meant to be an open spec to help stop the spread of viruses, worms, DoS attacks and other vulnerabilities in networks.

Funk Software —one of the TCG's contributor members—announced during Interop last week that it is adopting support for the TNC's endpoint integrity standard in its RADIUS server and 802.1X client. This effectively makes policy enforcement on WLANs, usually the purview of proprietary solutions, an open standard. (For example, remote access providers GoRemote and iPass both handle endpoint security for corporate customers.)

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