Posted on Friday, January 30th, 2009 at 4:52 pm
Network Access Control: Hot Technology for 2009
NetworkWorld
This year the questions for customers will be where do we deploy NAC, and how many NAC features do we turn on? Most customers today are using NAC just to control guest access. That’s important, but the technology can do more. On the pre-admission side, it can scan user devices, determine whether they are clear of viruses, check to see if patches have been updated and quarantine the device if security conditions aren’t met. On the post-admission side, it can make sure that a clean machine remains that way, and that users access only those parts of the network to which they have authorization.
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