Network Access Control

Nov 30 2007   5:44PM GMT

Projected Network Infrastructure Spending For 2008

Posted by: Tony Bradley
IP communications, wi-fi, Wireless, Networking, Ethernet, IP, Network Access Control, VLAN, VoIP, Unified Communications, UCC

What are your plans for your network infrastructure for 2008? Do you have a holiday wish list or some New Year’s resolutions regarding the technologies you want to implement or the changes you plan to make? TechTarget’s SearchNetworking site conducted a survey of over 1,200 respondents and they have published the results. Some of the key results are:

• 21.28% project an increase in their budget of more than 10%
• 7.26% of respondents said their networking budgets will decrease
• 8.34% claim that VoIP/data convergence is driving their budget increase

Check out Applications, convergence to boost network spending for the complete results. You can read it just out of curiosity, or maybe you can use the survey results to help prove your case to management and get your budget requests approved.

Sep 5 2007   6:15AM GMT

Cisco Merges Technologies to Create ‘oneNAC’

Posted by: Tony Bradley
oneNAC, Cisco, NAC, Network Access Control, Networking

Recently, I wrote about the struggles NAC (Network Admission Control) solutions have been going through to gain acceptance. According to a Computerworld.com article, Cisco is working to deal with the issues that have faced NAC solutions by merging both of their NAC approaches together. The resulting NAC solution will reportedly be faster, less complex to implement, and easier to maintain than either of the existing solutions. Cisco believes that the unified approach, dubbed oneNAC, will solve the primary issues and provide the flexibility enterprises are looking for to begin adopting NAC as a security solution.

Aug 15 2007   1:20PM GMT

NAC Continues To Struggle

Posted by: Tony Bradley
Network Access Control, NAC, Networking

A couple of years ago the concept of network access control (NAC) was introduced and many touted it as the next shift in network security technology. A product that sits between the client and the network and ensures that devices are clean and safe and meet with the prescribed network security policy before allowing them to connect with network resources seems like a no-lose situation. As it turns out, the various implementations of NAC have had their share of issues and NAC adoption hasn’t been quite the tidal wave of acceptance that some had predicted. Check out this Computerworld.com article for more about the issues with NAC and the current state of NAC implementation.