Recently a client asked me to write a whitepaper about IP address management. At first the assignment seemed completely routine. But as I began looking at the details I realized that I was going to ...

Russell Smith is a technology consultant and trainer specializing in management and security of Microsoft server and client technologies. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with more than 15 ...

DEFINITION: Network Access Quarantine Control, or NAQC, is a set of services and utilities available for Windows Server 2003 that lets you prevent remote users from connecting to your network with ...

Increasingly, whether due to regulatory requirements or a basic recognition that static passwords just don’t provide adequate security, organizations are ...

A computer in a network that provides access to remote users via an Internet or dial-up connection. See network access server and RAS. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction ...

A device used in network access control. An authentication server stores the usernames and passwords that identify the clients logging in, or it may hold the algorithms for token access (see ...