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RSS NevisBest Practices in Authentication and Access Control: Comparing 802.1x to the Nevis LAN Security Approach
White Paper The 802.1x protocol should be the obvious choice when implementing user-based authentication in enterprise networks. So why doesn't everyone use it? Because it doesn't give a complete solution for authentication and policy requirements, even when... [31 May 2008]
Best Practices in Authentication and Access Control
White Paper User authentication is necessary for identity based access control, and 802.1X clearly promises to meet this need. X has been around for a number of years and has been proposed as the user authentication solution for both wired and wireless LANs. [31 May 2008]
Identity-Based Policy Enforcement: A LAN Security Best Practices Whitepaper
White Paper This paper focuses on the evolving nature of LAN security in today's enterprise in light of a dissolving network perimeter and the need for an identity-based solution to address new requirements. Network security policies arise from compliance and... [31 May 2008]
Best Practices for Deploying LAN Security and NAC
White Paper There is growing recognition that LAN security has to go beyond the desktop and into the network infrastructure itself. Not only can security software not be relied upon to be installed and functional, such software is fairly easy to circumvent or... [31 May 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 24.11.06
Round-Up This is, of course, a secret shrouded in mystery, though regular readers may remember the famous Ben Nevis photo of 2004 - one of the few sightings of the Round-Up ever captured on camera. What is the world coming to? [24 Nov 2006]
Windows exploit code raises threat alert
News The exploit code was published by Winny Thomas of Nevis Labs in India, who reverse-engineered a patch Microsoft issued in October, according to a posting on FrSIRT's website. Exploit code has been published that could take advantage of flaws in... [18 Nov 2005]
BT's video-over-broadband due next summer
News IPTV is a key part of a BT project codenamed Nevis, which aims to develop broadband-based services for devices other than PCs. BT has revealed a few more details about its much-anticipated video-over-broadband service, which is due to launch within... [29 Sep 2005]
3 Peaks Challenge conquered by IT industry
News The challenge was to climb Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Snowdon, respectively the highest mountains in Scotland, England and Wales in just one 24 hour period. A team from Mellon were also rewarded for collecting a sackful of litter from the top of... [19 Jul 2005]
Photos: Team Silicon completes 3 Peaks Challenge
Photo The team: Smiles all round as the team prepares for the first ascent of Ben Nevis, by far the highest of the three peaks. Cloud engulfs Ben Nevis at around 500 metres, making conditions tricky and visibility low. [19 Jul 2005]
silicon.com team gearing up for mountain challenge
News On the route up the three mountains experience tells us we will meet rain, wind, treacherous conditions underfoot and snow and freezing temperatures on the top of Ben Nevis. A hardcore team of silicon.com fundraisers are gearing up to tackle the... [11 Jul 2005]
Wi-Fi fights back against WiMax with 100Mbps
News BT has already eyed up taking fixed-line broadband out of the PC with the ongoing Project Nevis, and the Wi-Fi Alliance believes there's a similar future for wireless. With every man and his dog rushing to proclaim that the advent of WiMax will... [04 May 2005]
Project Nevis to take BT to new broadband highs?
News In a briefing this week, BT CEO Ben Verwaayen said that "within the next 12 months" there will be devices on the market that make use of ADSL connections, the fruits of an initiative known within the telco as Project Nevis. [06 Apr 2005]
IT industry to take on 3 Peaks Challenge for charity
News As such the physically demanding slog up and down Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Snowdon seemed an ideal fit. At one stage we fear that he's not going to make the start but in the end he does recover - don't ask me how - and the team even goes on to... [24 Mar 2005]
BitTorrent is dead. Long live BitTorrent?
Kitts & Nevis, at the local office of IFG Trust Services, a company that helps set up and administer offshore companies. Dubbed Exeem, the software has already been distributed in a closed beta, or early test format, by the creators of the... [05 Jan 2005]
iPod-toting BT to become media luvvie?
News This is what today's announcement is all about - BT recognises this is so important it has decided to spell it out and build a dedicated team that will include the staff of Project Nevis, BT's TV-over-broadband trial using Siemens equipment... [01 Dec 2004]
