NAC, NAC – What’s There?

Posted by Ken Y-N on September 17th, 2008 at 02:23pm

This is the rather corny, if not downright dreadful, title for a panel that was presented at NAC (Network Access Control) Day 2008 yesterday Tuesday 16th. Sorry for being behind the times, but the title was too terrible to pass over the story!

Mike Fratto sat in on a panel with the above NAC, NAC title, along with Steve Hanna, Trusted Network Connect (TNC) co-chair, Trusted Computing Group; Stephen Karkula, security product marketing manager, Nokia; Amith Krishnan, senior product manager, Windows Server Group, Microsoft; and Brendan O’Connell, senior manager, product management, Cisco Systems. The blurb for the panel reads thus:

“Network access control has been offered as the Swiss army knife of IT security solutions. It has promised to provide authentication, policy enforcement, identity and access management, ongoing security for the life of a connection, seamless usage in any network that is NAC-enabled, and many other capabilities.

“If NAC is the answer, then what is the right question to ask? This session will provide a realistic perspective on what NAC can and cannot provide in regard to information security. Concepts that will be discussed will include an update on vendor interoperability and standards, case studies of successful and not so successful implementations, an overview of what NAC truly can and cannot provide, discussion of requirements (both network and application), and what the future holds for NAC.”

Read the rest regarding NAC at the InformationWeek blog here.

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