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.
