Napera

My cofounder ChrisB’s blog post on Lockdown Network’s demise in March received an interesting postscript this week. As reported in Network World, McAfee announced that they will be shipping new NAC products in 2009, including new enforcement and support for unmanaged devices not running the McAfee NAC agent.

Alan at StillSecure blogged his surprise at McAfee building or re-purposing their own ‘stone age’ NAC technology, and I quote:

At best this is a finger in the dike strategy until McAfee realizes that they have to do it the McAfee way. They just can’t build innovation and they have to go out and buy a NAC company.

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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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