Napera

One of the advantages that Napera enjoys by leveraging Microsoft’s NAP architecture is immediate compatibility with a wide range of Windows antivirus, antispyware and firewall solutions. Microsoft maintains a list of Vista compatible security software and today we published a detailed Napera support document (PDF) listing all of the solutions we’ve tested here (thanks to Tony for his hard work on QA). In general, any Windows XP or Vista compatible security application that supports Windows Security Center (introduced in 2004 with Windows XP SP2) will work great with NAP. We’ve only found a couple of obscure AV applications that don’t support Windows Security Center.
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With the news today that Windows XP Service Pack 3 has been released to manufacturing, the last piece of the network health puzzle falls into place for Windows users.

Why is XP SP3 so important? Because it includes the Microsoft Network Access Protection health agent first available in Windows Vista. In turn, the NAP agent enables Windows XP systems to report health over the network. Napera products leverage Microsoft’s NAP architecture for health information, and we can provide health diagnosis of Windows Vista, Mac OS X and now Windows XP systems on customer networks.
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