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Monday, September 17, 2007
Cisco keeps up the NAC beat
Cisco is persisting with the concept of Network Admission Control. This week saw Cisco announce logical new capabilities for its security product line, both designed to enhance the network’s value in managing security.
Cisco’s NAC Appliance is doing reasonably well providing self-service remediation for non-compliant endpoint configurations. The primary market for NAC Appliance is still higher education - this may help Cisco sell security into the corporate ISR base.
Network managers can use this capability to have near real-time views of what’s connected to their network. The products actually do good things in a Cisco context, except that NAC Profiler requires NAC Appliance.