This post was written by Jason Stella

NetClarity Inc. has received the coveted Network Products Guide 2008 Product Innovation Award for the NACwall Micro appliance, becoming the only NAC vendor to receive such an award. The NACwall Micro is a lightweight, compact, cost-effective Network Access Control (NAC) solution that can be deployed on any Class C subnet in a matter of minutes without the need for agent or client software, works with existing networking and legacy infrastructure, eliminating the need for expensive upgrades. It automatically blocks criminals and malicious insiders from gaining access to mission critical network infrastructure. A great quote from the piece:

“The goal of any product innovation must show a positive change that improves networking. Innovative products such as NetClarity’s patented NACwall Micro appliances are bringing improvements to companies of all sizes who are struggling with controlling access to networks and dealing with returning, potentially infected laptops. In addition, most businesses struggle with the risk of off-hour and unexpected access as well as from ‘hot’ ethernet ports and wireless routers where ‘trust’ agents cannot help. The NACwall solution is the first NAC product we’ve seen that solves all of these problems quickly, easily and cost-effectively.”

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This post was written by Melissa Chang

In a great interview between Network World and Joel Snyder, a senior partner with Opus One, and a security expert, the two talk about a wide range of NAC-related issues. In the discussion, they cover questions about what NAC products can and cannot do, including integration with wireless, technology shortcomings, plug-ins and more. Snyder also claims that one big vendor is winning the NAC war (Microsoft) and points readers to a great resource for NAC info - the Interop Labs NAC resource Web site. A great quote from the piece:

The key is that the desktop is EVERYTHING and Microsoft is making the right noises about standards and openness and making things work in the big picture. So we have already seen Microsoft and the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) get together, and I think it’s only a matter of time before we also see the other vendors like Cisco at least have a good accommodation of the Microsoft Network Access Protection (NAP) framework.

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