Network Access Protection (NAP) : Video

Video: Server 2008 {NAP} Launch

JeffSigman — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:41:00 GMT

I suddenly realized this morning I never posted anything about my trip in February down to Los Angeles CA to launch the biggest product of my 11 year career at Microsoft – Windows Server 2008. Whoops. :->

I made a 3 part video of my experience. It was glorious weather down there. A friend in Hollywood offered to put me up while I was there. I always love to save the company a few bucks {I’m a shareholder after all}.

Part one of the video is me heading from Hollywood to downtown LA via the underground train. It cost me $2 and was super-clean and safe {cops everywhere}. NAP had it's own "pod" in the Microsoft area, as well as many NAP Partners down in the Microsoft Partner area. When I arrived with 22 hours left until show start, the work was still well underway. As most shows I have attended, somehow it all comes together in the final hours.

I woke up bright and early the next morning and walked to Starbucks before catching the train again. I was still drinking daily coffee at that time {boy those were the days}. :->

The show kicked off with a presentation by Tom Brokaw. Tom then introduced the "chief", Steve Ballmer. I tried to catch the points in Ballmer's discussion which relate to NAP in the video below. We got an amazing amount of coverage considering how much Steve had to talk about. I was super pumped after hearing NAP come out of Steve's mouth, and then as an added bonus he even mentioned we have Linux NAP too!

After Steve wrapped up, we all {and it was a bunch of people} herded over to the show proper. I had two big things to take care of - the NAP pod had a demo in it that I wanted to make sure was ready to go, as well as the live stage demonstration I had at the very end of the day. Somehow, I wanted to get some video too {which is below}.

After the show was done I headed to the after-party. Ah, that was a ton of fun. I have been working on {Longhorn} Server 2008 for many years, and I decided to "let my hair down". It was hosted at the Mayan {an amazing club in downtown LA}. After arriving and learning that it was an open bar for all 1000+ of us {wow}, Mo Rocca gets up stage to give away door prizes. I had never heard of Mo before seeing him on stage, but he was pretty funny. He showed a video he recorded earlier in the day basically picking on all the nerds at the show {hmm}.

The best part was last. Mo introduced the {surprise} musical guest - The Barenaked Ladies. WOW! I never thought I would like their music, but I was blown away by their show. These Canadians dudes rocked the house! I was able to get 30 seconds of video before I was nearly thrown out of the club. :->

Someone in the audience was able to capture my live NAP demo. I stumbled upon this video on SoapBox when posting one of my NAP videos. Watch the race between a styrofoam missile I launched on stage and NAP auto-remediating a Vista SP1 Client! :-> I came up with that stunt an hour before we went on, and it went over very well!

I truly hope you enjoyed the videos, as well as using Server 2008. My blood, sweat and tears are all over that product and I am really proud of how it turned out!

Cheers!

{Jeff Sigman}{Senior Program Manager & NAP Hero}{Enterprise Security Group}
{NAP Blog, FAQ, Forum, MSDN, Site and my bloÿg}

NAP Partners @ RSA

JeffSigman — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:21:00 GMT

A couple of people emailed me today and asked that I highlight the NAP Partners who were in the video and participated in the NAP Partner Pavilion @ RSA. Check it out below!

Avenda Systems	Avenda Systems delivers comprehensive, end-to-end Trust and Identity Policy Management solutions for enterprises. Avenda solutions enable enterprises to securely manage who and what can access the network, and from where, when and how that access can occur. Its solutions focus on helping enterprises to proactively and reactively secure their networks and computers from threats. The solution leverages standard and vendor-defined NAC architectures designed to take advantage of embedded security features in network and server infrastructure, thus providing comprehensive and flexible policy control by assessing all endpoints across all access methods. Avenda solutions are designed to interoperate with Cisco’s NAC, Microsoft’s NAP and TCG’s TNC frameworks.
Blue Ridge Networks	Blue Ridge Networks, a Microsoft NAP Partner, and endpoint security solutions provider, delivers impenetrable security solutions for government and private industry. The company's products have a proven ability to secure internet transactions and are relied upon by hundreds of large enterprises and security-sensitive government agencies.
D-Link	Founded in 1986, D-Link is a global leader in the design, manufacture and marketing of advanced networking, broadband, digital, voice and data communications solutions. Following our company motto, "Building Networks for People", D-Link continually meets the global networking and connectivity needs of digital home consumers, small office professionals, small- to medium-sized businesses, and enterprise environments.
Enterasys	Enterasys Networks is the Secure Networks Company, providing enterprise customers with innovative network infrastructure products, services, and solutions that deliver the security, productivity, and adaptability benefits required by Global 2000 organizations. The company's full line of Secure Networks products include multilayer switches, core routers, WAN routers, wireless LANs, network management, and intrusion defense systems.
Extreme Networks	Extreme Networks, a world leader in networking, delivers an effective applications and services infrastructure by creating networks that are faster, simpler, and more cost-effective. Founded in 1996 and based in Santa Clara, California, Extreme Networks pioneered the silicon-based approach to networking to enhance performance with Quality of Service and bandwidth management. Extreme Networks provides enhanced scalability, security, and availability for converged IP applications, including voice and video, with an open-standards approach, its global partnerships, and a complete family of intelligent and highly functional Ethernet switches. Extreme Networks addresses the network from the core to the edge with products ranging from high-end, carrier class data center and core switches, to simple, Layer 3 edge switches. Extreme Networks Unified Access architecture delivers ubiquitous access at the Enterprise edge with secure, manageable wired and wireless network connectivity from a single, integrated solution.
Foundry Networks	Foundry (Nasdaq: FDRY) is a leading provider of high-performance enterprise and service provider switching, routing, and Web traffic management solutions including Layer 2/3 LAN switches, Layer 3 Backbone switches, Layer 4-7 Web switches and Metro Routers. Foundry's 7,500 customers include the world's premier Internet service providers, Metro service providers, and enterprises such as e-commerce sites, universities, entertainment, health and wellness, government, financial, and manufacturing companies. Foundry's IronShield Security encompasses network-level features that Foundry has deployed in its full range of Layer 2-7 switches, routers, and intelligent traffic management devices to implement secure networks. The focus is on using networking devices as policy enforcement points that do not compromise performance.
Juniper Networks	Juniper Networks (NASDAQ:JNPR) transforms the business of networking by creating competitive advantage for our customers with superior networking and security solutions. Juniper Networks is dedicated to customers who derive strategic value from their networks, including global network operators, enterprises, government agencies, and research and educational institutions. Juniper's portfolio of networking and security solutions supports the complex scale, security, and performance requirements of the world's most demanding mission-critical networks.
McAfee	McAfee, Inc. (NYSE:MFE) creates best-of-breed computer security solutions that prevent intrusions on networks and protect computer systems from the next generation of blended attacks and threats. Through collaboration with Network Access Protection technology from Microsoft, users of McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.0i and 7.x can enforce policy compliance on all systems connecting to Microsoft networks, ensuring that malicious code threats, such as the Bagle and Lovegate worms, are prevented from entering networks.
Microsoft ForeFront	Protecting clients and servers is one of the toughest challenges in IT today. Administrators must establish and enforce security policies that provide robust protection while being flexible enough to accommodate the connectivity needs of a growing number of internal and external users, device types, system configurations, and network connection types. Together, Microsoft Forefront and Windows Server 2008 deliver a next generation security solution with integrated protection, advanced access control, and simplified management that helps IT professionals maximize control over their security infrastructure.
Napera	Napera provides network solutions that enable small and medium enterprises to build safe, secure and healthy networks. Napera solutions defend against unauthorized access and prevent the spread of malicious software. Our products are easy to deploy, use, and support. For smaller enterprises, Napera makes network health easy.
Nortel	Nortel has teamed with Microsoft to support the Microsoft NAP program through high-performance, interoperable network designs based on industry standards. Nortel specializes in protecting IP multimedia communications with a layered approach to network defense. As part of NAP, Nortel will provide critical access technology based on the award-winning Nortel VPN Gateway and Secure Routing Technology portfolios. Nortel's VPN solutions include products that ensure end-users are compliant with the broader enterprise security policies, with the ability to deny or restrict network access accordingly or to force end-user compliance with subscription-styled updates. Nortel helps enterprises and service providers control critical business processes by building standards-compliant, open security solutions that integrate into today's IT environment and adapt to tomorrow's security threats. Nortel solutions actively respond to even unforeseen security threats by building resiliency and adaptability into every solution and network plan.
ProCurve Networking	The ProCurve Networking business unit of HP delivers enterprise networking solutions comprising wired and wireless LAN and WAN networking products and services, and security through the ProCurve ProActive Defense. The ProCurve Adaptive EDGE Architecture strategy is the industry’s only comprehensive and inclusive network design strategy that is adaptable, scalable and completely interoperable for achieving command from the center with control to the network edge. ProCurve was positioned in the challenger quadrant in research and advisory firm Gartner, Inc.’s 2006 Magic Quadrant Report for Global Campus LANs.
SkyRecon Systems	Founded in 2003, SkyRecon Systems is the first European vendor of distributed behavioral security software solutions. Our mission is to ensure that each member of staff of our clients enjoys the continuity of work at his/her personal computer. Our products preserve the integrity of the data and the reliability of the applications on each PC. SkyRecon Systems thus allows every organization to protect itself efficiently against the denials of service and the theft or the destruction of critical information caused by viruses, piracy actions or hardware failures. SkyRecon Systems is an innovating company. Our technology relies on state-of-the-art research on kernel programming and artificial intelligence. This work led to the deposit of two patents, the support of the French National Agency for Innovation (ANVAR) and numerous European awards. In 2006, SkyRecon Systems signed a strategic partnership with Microsoft to support SkyRecon's engineering, sales and marketing activities. The head office of SkyRecon Systems is in Paris, France.
UNETsystem	UNETsystem provides security solutions including 802.1X wireless LAN security, Network Access Control, Public Key Infrastructure and Network Behavior Analysis solutions. Managed Security and Security Outsourcing services are also a major business area. UNETsystem developed the first Korea Network Access Control solution and is the leading provider of this area in Korea. UNETsystem, established in 2003 and located in Seoul, has four technology patents about Network Access Control and Network Behavior Analysis technologies. UNETsystem is providing security services for many customers including government agencies, public organizations, financial institutions, telecommunications, logistics, IT companies, cooperatives and business partners. UNETsystem recently developed an integration module for Microsoft NAP to accelerate the interoperability of Microsoft NAP.

As I said in this post, if you are interested in any of the 802.1x switch configurations from the show, just shoot me an email.

Cheers!

{Jeff Sigman}{Senior Program Manager & NAP Hero}{Enterprise Security Group}
{NAP Blog, FAQ, Forum, MSDN, Site and my bloÿg}

Video: NAP World Tour @ RSA 2008 San Francisco

JeffSigman — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:56:00 GMT

I just got back from San Francisco where I was speaking to anyone who would listen about how NAP is changing the world. :-> I wanted to share the video I put together of the trip to give you a flavor of what it was like to be there.

My effort leading up to the show was putting together the 802.1x NAP Interoperability Showcase, which you will see in the video. If you are interested, I also discuss it here in my personal blog about the whole trip.

Hope you enjoy!

Cheers!

{Jeff Sigman}{Senior Program Manager & NAP Hero}{Enterprise Security Group}
{NAP Blog, FAQ, Forum, MSDN, Site and my bloÿg}

Exclusive Video! NAP + Forefront Client Security (FCS)

MS NAP Team — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:54:00 GMT

I recorded a video earlier today because of how excited I was to show off the latest development in the world of NAP. The NAP team has worked directly with the Solutions Accelerators team as well as the Forefront team to bring you integration between NAP and Forefront Client Security (FCS) 1.0. Once released, it will be a free download through the Solutions Accelerators TechNet site....(read more)

NAP Heroes

MS NAP Team — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:16:00 GMT

Here is a really cool video which is going to play at the launch of Windows Server 2008 next week in Los Angeles. It features Hunter Ely of Louisiana State University (LSU), a NAP Hero for Windows Server 2008. LSU was one of our NAP early adopters during the Beta of Server 2008....(read more)

NAP demos from Down Under

MS NAP Team — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 01:29:00 GMT

I just recently met Michael Kleef, a Microsoft Technology Advisor from Australia, at a Server 2008 field readiness event here in Seattle. Very cool guy who loves NAP. I instantly liked him. :->

I was poking around on his blog and found some great content. Check out his NAP + IPsec sceencasts as well as his awesome NAP + 802.1x blogcast (using Cisco switches). Very nice!

Looks like I have some competition from down under. Go NAP!

Jeff Sigman
Senior Program Manager
Network Access Protection (NAP)

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2008 - The year of NAP

MS NAP Team — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:11:00 GMT

This is my first blog post of the year, and a video blog post no less, kicking off the YEAR OF NAP! Watch the video and give me a ton of feedback (please).

Video: NAP Video Blog: 2008 - The year of NAP

Talk to you again soon,

Jeff Sigman
Senior Program Manager
Network Access Protection (NAP)

Channel 9 Video on NAP

MS NAP Team — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 22:29:00 GMT

Well, I haven’t blogged in quite a while. It’s not that I don’t love you, but I’ve been busy making the final touches on Server 2008 / XP SP3 NAP to get them ready to leave the building and arrive in your hands. I have a huge backlog of emails from folks who read the blog (100+). If you have emailed me, I will be getting back to you in the next couple days. Sorry about the delay, and thanks for the patience.

My buddy Adam Carter visited my office recently with his digital video camera. He caught me chatting with Brent Atkison about the live deployment of NAP on the Microsoft IT global network. It is a short and sweet video of our internal deployment as well as a brief history internally of NAP. Check it out.

**Update Feb 22nd 2008**

Adam got this posted to the new TechNet Edge site for ITPro's.

Network Access Protection with Microsoft's IT

**Update Feb 22nd 2008**

If the Channel 9 video is a success, I would love to create a whole series of NAP videos showing the internals of our cool team, and how we produce the product that will be loved by millions of people. :->

Well, it’s the weekend, what better time to catch up on all those unread emails from weeks past. C’ya on the other side.

Jeff Sigman
Senior Program Manager
Network Access Protection (NAP)

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