News
Fifth tNAC workshop in Hannover
22 Sep 2011
On September, 22nd 2011, the fifth and final tNAC workshop was held at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Hanover. During the workshop, the results of the tNAC project were presented, together with a demonstration of all components in conjunction. It showed the relationship between the management components and the components on the PDP, PEP and AR. The requirements of the project were compared to the results and afterwards discussed, which showed that all main requirements were successfully fulfilled by the project.
Fourth tNAC Workshop in Gelsenkirchen
22 Feb 2011
The fourth tNAC Workshop took place at the Institute for Internet Security (IFIS) in Gelsenkirchen on February, 22nd 2011. Main topics were the improvements to the prototype of the third workshop. Two new features that could be presented were the support of VPN environments and XACML policy evaluation. Furthermore, improvements within Remediation and general tNAC components were discussed.
VPN addon to tnc@fhh presented at INTRUST 2011
13-15 Dec 2010
The support of VPN environments by the tnc@fhh software developed at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Hanover, was presented at the 2nd International Conference on Trusted Systems (INTRUST 2010), Beijing, as a short paper with the title "Interoperable Remote Attestation for VPN Environments".
Cooperation with ESUKOM Research Project
6 Dec 2010
The tNAC consortium is happy to announce its cooperation with the ESUKOM research project. The ESUKOM project aims to develop a security solution that features realtime security for enterprise networks based upon the TCG's IF-MAP specification. In this context, ESUKOM especially addresses threats that are introduced by modern smartphones.
Third tNAC Workshop in Hannover
14 Apr 2010
The third tNAC workshop was held on April, 14th at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Hanover. The consortium was able to present the first tNAC prototype. This prototype integrates Turaya and TNC@FHH on the client-side and thus enables Remote Attestation for the Static Chain of Trust in 802.1X environments via TNC. Furthermore, the prototype supports basic Remediation and Policy Management. Thus, the tNAC consortium successfully reached the second milestone according to the project plan. In the next project phase, the prototype implementation will be refactored and extended with new features (such as VPN support and advanced Remediation techniques).
Meeting for Collaboration between VOGUE and tNAC
Hanover. On March 4th 2010, a meeting between partners of the two research projects tNAC and VOGUE was held in Hanover, Lower Saxony. tNAC was represented by the Fachhochschule Hannover, the VOGUE project was represented by Fraunhofer SIT.
The tNAC project focuses on the development of a trustworthy Network Access Control solution. By the integration of Turaya, a Trusted Computing Platform, and TNC@FHH, a Network Access Control (NAC) implementation, tNAC aims to achieve a significantly higher security level compared to other available NAC solutions.
The research topic especially includes the reasonable and practically feasible use of Trusted Computing technology in conjunction with an interoperable NAC solution which is based upon the Trusted Network Connect (TNC) specifications of the Trusted Computing Group (TCG). Real world scenarios are provided by the participating partners. One scenario is the dynamic and secure connection of mobile endpoints (Laptops) to a company's network, both locally via LAN and remotely via VPN.
Because of the new and steadily growing demands that are made on mobile phones in terms of their trustworthiness, the VOGUE project aims to develop a platform in order to secure mobile endpoints. The platform can be used on arbitrary mobile endpoints. This secure platform will especially support a trustworthy device authentication. Based upon the real worl scenario "Mobile guest access to a company's network", with focus on VPN solutions, the security benefit provided by the VOGUE platform will be demonstrated. The use of the VOGUE platform will not be restricted to this scenario. In fact, VOGUE will support to secure arbitrary mobile applications.
The specifications of the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) form the technological basis for VOGUE. Particularly the Trusted Network Connect (TNC) specifications, wich support the trustworthy access of mobile endpoints to IT infrastructures, will be used within VOGUE. The implementation of VOUGE is planned to be based on the Android platform, an open source operating system for mobile devices, that enables the realisation of device oriented security measures for TNC and the integration of Trusted Computing technology.
During the meeting, topics for three theses have been defined:
1. Development of a TNC-Client/Framework for the Android Platform
2. Development of a IF-MAP Client/Framework for the Android Platform
3. Integration of Trusted Computing Technology in the Android Platform
Three students of the Fachhochschule Hannover will work on these topics. The results will be used within tNAC and VOGUE. For the future, a continuous collaboration between both projects is expected.
Second tNAC workshop in Gelsenkirchen
02 Dec 2009
Organized by the Institute for Internet Security, representatives of the project partners met on 02 Dec 2009 at the second tNAC workshop. The goals of the workshop were to present the results of the first project phase (requirements analysis and basic concepts) and to discuss the current state of the prototype and its further development.
tNAC at CeBIT 2009
March 2009
The tNAC project will be present at this year's CeBIT. The project is represented at the booth of Institute for Internet Security. This booth is part of the joint booth 'Innovationsland Nordrhein-Westfalen' and located at hall 9, booth D06.
On Friday 6th you can learn more about the tNAC project at future talk, hall 9, booth A54 from 12:20 to 12:40.
First tNAC workshop
27 Nov 2008
On 27 Nov 2008 the first tNAC workshop took place at University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Hanover. Representatives of all project partners were present to report the state of the project and to discuss further steps. While the workshop new ideas and requirements for the project's components where developed.
tNAC Project Launched
01 Jul 2008
On Tuesday the 1st of July 2008 the trusted network access control (tNAC) project has been launched. The roadmap is based on the results of the EMSCB project Turaya and the TNC project of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Hanover. The aim is the development of a manageable Open Source NAC solution with full TNC compatibility and TPM support on the basis of real world scenarios. The project was introduced to the expert audience at the "Future of Trust in Computing Conference" in Berlin. tNAC is under the patronage of the Universities of Applied Sciences Gelsenkirchen and Hanover. The project is supported by the German companies Datus AG, Sirrix AG and the Steria Mummert Consulting AG. tNAC is sponsored by the "Federal Ministry of Education and Research".
Link to the TC-Conference 2008 Programme:
http://www.tc-conference.com