User group defines security needs
An influential, industry user group is tackling a problem that has stumped many network executives: how to create an enterprise security architecture. The Network Applications Consortium (NAC) plans to publish a document this summer that outlines the principle, policies, standards, technologies and processes necessary to protect a company’s information assets. NAC’s Enterprise Security Architecture addresses hot topics in cybersecurity such as governance, technology architecture and operations. The document will affect how several major corporations – including Bechtel, Boeing, GlaxoSmithKline and State Farm Insurance – make network hardware and software purchases in the future, network executives at these companies say. Full Story