Do you know who connects to your wired and wireless networks, when and where? Do you know who is using applications forbidden by your network usage policy, such as maybe LimeWire or Gnutella? With the ...

In our initial PacketFence article in the April 2007 issue of LJ, we introduced the great network access control (NAC) solution that rivals the best ones on the market. On that occasion, we covered ...

Eleven years ago, I managed to get Packetfence installed on a Linux machine. I remember it well, because at the time Packetfence was an absolute nightmare to get up and running. Succeeding at that ...

In a previous article, I discussed some of the basic features of network access control (NAC) systems. While there are many commercial vendors of NAC systems, turning to an open-source product can ...

Back in 2003, before network access control (NAC) became one of security's hot buttons, a few engineers at Harvard University developed a way to detect end points, discover their configurations, and ...

Leadership of an open source NAC platform has been transferred to a private firm in Canada that charges customers for installing and maintaining the software. PacketFence, developed by two Harvard ...