At its Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto, Microsoft said it plans to establish NAP as an industry standard. The technology, previously described by some executives as Active Defense technology, ...

Microsoft’s NAP (Network Access Protection) has been a long time coming for those of us working in the security industry. The first real evidence of NAP was the NAP client shipped in Vista and in ...

Security vendors are clamoring to announce their products’ compatibility with Microsoft’s network access protection, a key security feature of Windows Server 2008. Foundry Networks, McAfee, Symantec, ...

Now that Microsoft has launched Windows Server 2008, customers have all the elements to use Microsoft’s version of NAC known as network access protection (NAP). Or do they? NAP provides client ...