Napera

Yesterday’s well hyped NAC debate over at Network World certainly received some attention. I was only able to check in between meetings but they posted an entire transcript and it makes interesting reading.

In one corner, Joel Snyder, well respected NAC expert and Interop regular. I’m partial towards Joel because he has been a voice of reason in the networking space for many years, and his work on NAC and NAP is second to none.

In the other corner, Richard Stiennon, self-titled ‘ Security Industry Innovator’ who regularly exclaims ‘NAC is dead’ to anyone who reads his column at Network World. I don’t believe I’ve ever met Richard, but he was previously at Gartner (where he exclaimed IDS was dead), worked at Fortinet and Webroot for a brief period and recently joined an Australian startup doing MSS. I was doing MSS in Australia in 1995 as it happens, so I guess I must be a security innovator as well.
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It’s fitting that my first blog post would be about the misfortune of a former employer. Prior to co-founding Napera in 2006, I was at Lockdown Networks for a short time. Since the news broke this week that Lockdown closed their doors, I’ve been asked for my insight. Specifically, people want to know whether Lockdown’s failure is due to their inability to execute or due to a non-existent NAC market.
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