NAC needs to be vendor-neutral

Posted by Ken Y-N on September 25th, 2008 at 11:26am

Mike Fratto of InformationWeek attended the recent NAC Day at Interop, moderating a panel made up of employees of the sponsors. The key message seems to be standardisation, as NAC, Network Access Control, is not a single-product single-vendor solution.

The three competing solutions seem to be Cisco’s Network Access Control, Microsoft’s Network Access Protection, and the Trusted Computing Group’s Trusted Network Connect (TNC), with the TNC being the only vendor-neutral solution that is going anywhere. The IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) has a Network Endpoint Assessment working group, and the only contributor is the TNC. Customers are wanting standards to be adopted soon so that they can make purchasing decisions.

It’s an interesting article, so catch the full story at the InformationWeek blog here.

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