Written by jj
Friday, September 18th, 2009

Management is on board with your decision to roll out NAC, and your team is working diligently on a migration strategy. You have your organization’s policies clearly defined. You’re ready to create a set of recommendations for handling non-compliant devices and take them to management. Where do you start? (more…)
Network access control technologies are complicated enough to plan and implement on a technological level, but dealing with the politics of policies can be an entirely new headache your IT department never saw coming.
Conversations about NAC frequently start with basic information gathering: What features are you looking for? What operating systems and switches are in the environment? How do you want to handle non-compliant devices? And, of course, the sales guy will slip in the ol’ “What’s your budget?” line. (more…)
If you’re here in sunny Las Vegas with us this week for Interop, stop on by the NAC panel this afternoon, 2:00pm Pacific Wednesday, May 20th. As the only non-vendor participant on the panel, it is my duty to keep the vendors in line, harass them and challenge their thoughts on the technologies and standards. I feel I can at least deliver on one of my assigned duties; I can certainly harass them all. ;) It should be fun… (more…)
An Introduction to the Redefining NAC Series
One of the great things about this industry is the opportunity it affords us to regularly interact with colleagues and peers to share ideas, learn and bounce ideas around. Recently I’ve been engaged in several of these types of conversations regarding NAC and where the market and technology is headed. (more…)