Alert reader Mike Davis points out that in last week’s look at R2, the Windows Server 2003 update that’s due out next year, I neglected to mention one new feature that he’s especially looking forward ...

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, ...

Burton Group VP and Network World columnist Dan Blum seems to agree with me that Vista belongs on your desktops. Not immediately, he thinks, but following your normal deployment schedule of new ...

Microsoft’s Network Access Protection (NAP) serves as a good foundation for securing Windows network infrastructure. Nevertheless, you can usefully expand NAP’s capabilities with applications that ...

Viruses and malware are often stopped by software defenses that run on the desktop; in fact, the antivirus, antispyware and other security suite software business has rapidly become a very lucrative ...

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, ...