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July 30, 2007
Symantec Tops NAC Roundup
Despite a bad quarter with analysts harping on its enterprise products, Symantec walked away with good marks for its NAC products in a NetworkWorld roundup that concluded Symantec "provided the most solid NAC functions across the board."
You can do worse than that roundup to get a sense of where NAC is at. Or rather, perhaps, to get a sense of the many places NAC is at. Just two years ago, "NAC" was synonymous with "Cisco." The tech press narrative was all about a perceived "race" between Microsoft (with NAP) and Cisco, with questions about whether the two might interoperate, and a bunch of mistaken talk about NAC being a "technology" or a "standard" the same way people talk about SMTP or HTTP.
When you read a NAC roundup that mentions a "multitude of products" and concludes that the secret to success with NAC is to pick a vendor and let yourself be locked in ... well ... "Welcome to the human network."
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