Cisco Systems 4.2 Microsoft, and RSA Security submitted to the Ietf, Radius Attribute Component

Glossary

PEAP	Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol-An 802.1x authentication type for wireless LANs
	(WLANs). PEAP provides strong security, user database extensibility, and support for one-time token
	authentication and password change or aging. PEAP is based on an Internet Draft that Cisco Systems,
	Microsoft, and RSA Security submitted to the IETF.

Posture credentials

Posture plug-in

PV

PVS

State information of a network endpoint at a given point in time that represents hardware and software (OS and application) information.

A third-party DLL that provides host posture credentials to a posture agent on the same endpoint for endpoint posture validation and network authorization.

Posture Validation-Posture validation validates the collection of attributes that describe the general state and health of the user’s machine (the “host”).

Posture Validation Server-A posture-validation server acts as an application-specific policy-decision point in NAC for authorizing a set of posture credentials against a set of policy rules.

R

RAC	RADIUS Attribute Component.
RADIUS	A widely deployed protocol enabling centralized authentication, authorization, and accounting for
	network access.

S

SoH Statement of Health. A message that a NAP client sends to an NPS indicating the health of the client.

V

VSA Vendor Specific Attribute-Most vendors use the VSA to support value-added features.

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