A browser-based VPN technology is gaining popularity among corporate buyers, and carriers are making a bid for their business. Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering ...

Amy Nichol Smith spent more than 20 years working as a journalist for TV and newspapers before transitioning to software and hardware product reviews for consumers and small businesses. She has been ...

Editor’s Note : On Dec. 4, this newsletter will shift its focus from VPNs to network access control. NAC is an emerging network security architecture that starts with securing endpoints before they ...

Cisco and Nortel – arguably the two biggest names in IP Security VPNs – are getting ready to shake up the fast-growing Secure Sockets Layer segment of the market, which they’ve largely ignored until ...

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SSL and its descendent, TLS, are protocols that encrypt internet traffic, making secure internet communication and ecommerce possible. The decades-long history of these protocols has been marked by ...

The Internet is a dangerous place. It’s simply too easy to snoop, spoof, and steal unprotected information as it travels over the wires. Last month, I wrote the final article in a series on X.509 ...