Napera

Network World suggested with its headline this morning that a recent Infonetics study outlined the top reasons for delaying network access control (NAC) deployments. I think that’s an overly negative headline. While the Infonetics report did discuss some of the blockers to NAC deployments, most of it was positive and covered the increased level of NAC deployments expected over the coming year, and indicated that NAC is becoming a budgetary line item for most companies.

In fact, the report states that nearly two-thirds of the respondents have a budgetary line item for NAC in their fiscal 2009 budgets. That’s double the number for 2008.
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It may not be the halcyon days of the late 90′s when Interop took over the massive Las Vegas Convention Center, but judging from the mood at today’s show the buzz is definitely back at Interop!
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Referring to a Network World article about Napera and other vendors supporting Microsoft’s NAP architecture, security pundit Mike Rothman claims dismissively that “client support isn’t one of the obstacles to NAC deployment”.
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