Today’s Summit Highlight: NAP and IPSEC
By jeffreycentex on Oct 1, 2005 in Uncategorized
Post Tags: MVP Summit
The highlight of the network drill-down day 1 for me was all of the discussion of how IPSEC can be used with NAP (Network Access Protection) to protect networks, even without using 802.1X and DHCP… There was an article posted by Matt with the EEC (which, BTW, is an awesome place to visit if you ever have a chance) earlier this year that had described the plans for this, but somehow it slipped past my radar.
For smaller companies like the one I work for, implementing NAP via DHCP and 802.1X will probably still be much easier. However, MS is promising to make the IPSEC NAP experience be as painless as possible. The hardest aspect will be to get the certificate infrastructure up and running, but it should be much easier to install, administer, and maintain versus the complexities of the current Certificate Services in Windows 2003 Server.
Alas, we must wait for Longhorn Server to see more of this… And I haven’t even gotten to IPV6 support in Vista/Longhorn. More on that tomorrow (after I collapse from exhaustion and information overload).
Tags: mvpsummit, mvp summit
