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A knack for network security

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When Glenn Haar, an information technology resource manager at the Idaho Tax Commission, started in the computer business, the job was all about the mainframes — a fairly easy job compared with today’s duties. “You used to have one person who took care of this system which hardly ever changed,” he said from his office in Boise.

These days, however, the same job requires looking after more than 60 servers, “which are constantly [failing] and needing maintenance,” he said. “That turned everybody into mechanics — and turned them away from being oriented towards service for the user.”

“We realized we had to move people out of constantly having to fix things,” he added.

Any new approach that would help him better manage all those resources would be of value. So for the task of securing the network, Haar and his team looked into an emerging technique called network access control.

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