Trusted Computing Group (TCG), which develops open standards for computing security, and Microsoft Corp., a TCG member and active participant, today announced at Interop Las Vegas 2007 that they will provide customers and partners interoperability of TCG’s Trusted Network Connect (TNC) architecture and Microsoft® Network Access Protection (NAP) for network access control (NAC). This interoperability means customers can use NAP products in TNC-protected networks and TNC products in NAP-protected networks. NAP partners can support TNC clients and servers, and TNC implementers can support NAP clients, servers and protocols.
The first step in the interoperability of NAP and TNC will be enabled by Microsoft’s contribution of its Statement of Health (SoH) protocol to the Trusted Computing Group. A new specification, the IF-TNCCS-SOH, is being released today as part of the TNC architecture. Vendors can begin implementing the IF-TNCCS-SOH specification immediately. Several demonstrations of the new specification will be shown on the Interop show floor this week in TCG’s booth #211 and in Microsoft’s booth #1548.
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