End users could choose best-of-breed products, pay less for them and operate under better security policies if systems generating data about physical and logical security actions could easily publish and/or receive that data using a standard protocol instead of custom programming or middleware solutions.
That's one of the assertions discussed in the second part of Security Squared's conversation with three members of the Trusted Computing Group, who have been demonstrating a standards-based physical access to network access data-sharing solution. The demo features Hirsch Electronics' Velocity security management software sharing information with a Juniper Networks' network access control appliance via a Metadata Access Protocol (MAP) server from Infoblox, a network services platform vendor.
The TCG created the IF-MAP protocol that its members say could enable data to easily move among physical and logical systems--provided the systems support the protocol. The implications of a standards-based communication solution were discussed by Bob Beliles, vice president, enterprise business development, Hirsch Electronics; Stuart Bailey, chief technology officer, Infoblox, and chairman of the IF-MAP subgroup with the Trusted Computing Group; Rick Kagan, vice president of marketing, Infoblox; Steve Hanna, distinguished engineer, Juniper Networks and Co-Chair, Trusted Network Connect Work Group, Trusted Computing Group; Moinul Kahn, product line manager for Juniper's Unified Access Control (UAC) product line; Jay Kelley, product marketing manager, UAC, for Juniper.
What follows is a transcript of the second half of our conversation, edited for clarity and length.
Part One contains an overview of the IF-MAP protocol capabilities.
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Sharon J. Watson, Security Squared: Bob, what you demonstrated at ASIS, the Infloblox MAP server, the Juniper NAC appliance and Hirsch Velocity, can someone buy that as a package? If someone is interested in that, how do they go about getting it?
Bob Beliles, Hirsch: We're still putting all of the pieces together. Today what would happen is that you would need to have the capability in the Hirsch Velocity software that would communicate with the IF-MAP server. We're making that available. Likewise a customer would need to go to Juniper separately, say I would like to buy the Unified Access Control server and Moinul would have to help out there with a special code to support that. If you wanted to use the MAP server capability, different vendors have it, Juniper has a version of it and Infoblox does too. So you could go there.
That's one of the assertions discussed in the second part of Security Squared's conversation with three members of the Trusted Computing Group, who have been demonstrating a standards-based physical access to network access data-sharing solution. The demo features Hirsch Electronics' Velocity security management software sharing information with a Juniper Networks' network access control appliance via a Metadata Access Protocol (MAP) server from Infoblox, a network services platform vendor.
The TCG created the IF-MAP protocol that its members say could enable data to easily move among physical and logical systems--provided the systems support the protocol. The implications of a standards-based communication solution were discussed by Bob Beliles, vice president, enterprise business development, Hirsch Electronics; Stuart Bailey, chief technology officer, Infoblox, and chairman of the IF-MAP subgroup with the Trusted Computing Group; Rick Kagan, vice president of marketing, Infoblox; Steve Hanna, distinguished engineer, Juniper Networks and Co-Chair, Trusted Network Connect Work Group, Trusted Computing Group; Moinul Kahn, product line manager for Juniper's Unified Access Control (UAC) product line; Jay Kelley, product marketing manager, UAC, for Juniper.
What follows is a transcript of the second half of our conversation, edited for clarity and length.
Part One contains an overview of the IF-MAP protocol capabilities.
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Sharon J. Watson, Security Squared: Bob, what you demonstrated at ASIS, the Infloblox MAP server, the Juniper NAC appliance and Hirsch Velocity, can someone buy that as a package? If someone is interested in that, how do they go about getting it?
Bob Beliles, Hirsch: We're still putting all of the pieces together. Today what would happen is that you would need to have the capability in the Hirsch Velocity software that would communicate with the IF-MAP server. We're making that available. Likewise a customer would need to go to Juniper separately, say I would like to buy the Unified Access Control server and Moinul would have to help out there with a special code to support that. If you wanted to use the MAP server capability, different vendors have it, Juniper has a version of it and Infoblox does too. So you could go there.
Continue reading Trusted Computing Group, Convergence and IF-MAP: Part II.
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