Be an IF-MAP innovator!

Posted by Ken Y-N on December 3rd, 2008 at 12:29pm

In reply to Chris Hoff’s recent post, covered on this blog here, Steve Hanna of Juniper talked about The Adoption Curve for IF-MAP, the Trusted Computing Group’s standard protocol for connected security.

He talks about how adoption follows classic adoption cycles: first the innovators get going, followed by early adopters, early majority, late majority, and laggards, with each group taking a year or more to get on board. Since the IF-MAP standard is still under a year old, innovating vendors will soon have products for innovating customers to pick up.

If you’re wondering why you should innovate, Steve details why you should:

IF-MAP provides immediate benefits. False positives and false negatives are greatly reduced since sensors are now identity-aware. Fewer false positives and negatives reduces the cost and increases the benefit of monitoring IDS and SEIM systems. Automated response is another way to reduce costs. Reduced cost with stronger security will definitely draw some attention in today’s economic climate!

Juniper are, of course, one of the innovating vendors, but that also means that Steve has detailed knowledge of the market, so he does know who the innovators will be, and he does hint that they are very significant players, both vendors and customers.

The full article is a very good read, and available at the Got The NAC blog here.

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