A recent poll at a Gartner security conference indicates strong interest in 802.1x authentication that will feed into the network-based, identity driven model of NAC. The poll was taken at a session ...

Let’s face it 802.1x has been around for over a decade now and its still not widely deployed and suffers from a bad rap. One of the key reasons for this is that 802.1x suffers from serious operational ...

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 ...

Recently, T-Mobile announced that they are the firstU.S. Wireless carrier to implement 802.1x (IEEE port-based authenticationalso known asDot1x). This is a huge improvement in the security and ...

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 ...