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... more interestingly Shimmy does a good obit for Inline NAC , and also a bit more analysis of NAC pointing to a piece from John Pescatore on some of the ... use cases for the technology . As I've long said, NAC is a feature and really should be embedded within the network. That's ...

Blog entry - Mike Rothman - 2009-08-24 08:36 - 1 comment

... of data sheets and decided Microsoft was "top of the NAC heap." Not sure if they used those words, but that's what Tim Greene says were the results of Forrester's NAC wave . That kind of finding is pretty laughable. There is no question that ...

Blog entry - Mike Rothman - 2008-09-29 07:24 - 9 comments

... in customer conversation - everyone wants to talk about NAC. But as with almost all of the new new things I've seen over the past 15 years, NAC - the term - is being bent, stretched, and manipulated to suit the needs of ...

Blog entry - Mike Rothman - 2006-05-03 15:58 - 0 comments

... by TrustWave . Lots of folks continue to wonder if NAC will ever become a real business and my stand has been pretty consistent ... and the question is not if, it's when the independent NAC folks are taken out of the mix. Next it's Nortel starting to divest assets ...

Blog entry - Mike Rothman - 2009-02-25 09:39 - 4 comments

While I've got NAC on the brain, let me go after the standards discussion a bit. There was ... Of course I'm talking about the Cisco and Microsoft NAC/NAP announcement ( here and here ). But if you are a customer, do ... Fact is, large enterprise will be laggards in deploying NAC, there is too much upgrading and political maneuvering required What ...

Blog entry - Mike Rothman - 2006-09-29 11:42 - 2 comments

... I'm sure there are a bunch of increasingly desperate NAC vendors circling Caymas' customers with offers of swap-out credits and ... that I can mask over Caymas logo? (Caymas Systems, NAC) ...

Blog entry - Mike Rothman - 2007-04-27 15:03 - 9 comments

... Mark kindly offered some perspectives on the recent NAC "discussion" among myself, Shimel, Hoff, and Stiennon and even ... analysis of the Stiennon/Hoff/Shimel/Rothman NAC debate. Truth be told, I didn't even review all the threads before ... This seems like a much better investment than NAC, at least as I understand it. Some of the advantages that I see are these: ...

Blog entry - Mike Rothman - 2006-08-10 13:17 - 5 comments

Getting back to the NAC series, let's examine a few of the diverging opinions out there about whether NAC is worth a crap or not. First, I'm not surprised by the number of ... back that 2007 will be the year of the secure switch, as NAC (or more specifically, endpoint admission and granular access control) ...

Blog entry - Mike Rothman - 2006-05-16 11:00 - 0 comments

As we resume the NAC series, let's take a look at how the BigCo's (Cisco, Juniper, ... Trusted Computing Group) are collaborating in the NAC market to magnify their impact. For this post and the architectural ... ), John sizes up the NAC opportunity and scopes out the players. John's observation about the ...

Blog entry - Mike Rothman - 2006-05-10 09:41 - 2 comments

... Does anyone really believe Enterasys grew NAC revenues 300%+? http://is.gd/1pbAP #getmesomeofthatfuzzymath ...

Blog entry - Mike Rothman - 2009-07-07 09:51 - 0 comments