NAC implementations move forward despite its immaturity

Security: Network Access Control This newsletter is sponsored by New Edge Networks MPLS: The tool for a robust virtual workplace Get real-world advice on how to best support and manage your organizations virtual workforce. Listen to this complimentary Webcast, Building IP Networks for the Distributed Workforce, to hear how selecting the right WAN service to support distant employees can make all the difference. Click here to register now. Network World's Security: Network Access Control Newsletter, 11/06/07 NAC implementations move forward despite its immaturity By Tim Greene Last time I wrote about a NAC survey done by TheInfoPro. Today’s newsletter follows up with more results from that survey. The major result reported last time was that some early NAC users were actually taking the gear out of commission because it fell short of expectations. Despite that, the research found that 50% of those interviewed still have plans to implement NAC, 29% to do so within two to four years. The rest have plans to do so within the next two years. Webcast: Get the latest on NAC Learn the latest on Network Access Control in Network World's Perspectives Editorial Webcast. Discover how IT professionals can leverage this hot security technology in their networks, while also learning about key management areas that have not yet been perfected. To learn more click here. Forty seven percent say they will spend more on NAC in 2008 than they did this year, while 9% say they will spend less, the TIP survey found. TIP conducts surveys with 221 end users from firms with $1.4 billion or more in revenue every six months. Each user is prequalified by TIP as being decision-makers for network planning, vendor-selection and purchasing, Trussell says. Each interview lasts an hour to an hour and a half. The firm tries to reach all the same respondents from one survey to the next, and gets between 80% and 85% repeaters, says Trussell. The top four vendors used or being considered by those who are either using NAC or actively considering it, in order: Cisco, Symantec, Juniper and Microsoft. TIP asked how much respondents planned to spend on NAC this year, and found that those planning to spend more than $500,000 jumped from 12% to 22%. (Separate from this survey, one NAC vendor recently boasted that it had received multiple orders for more than $100,000.) Editor's note: Starting Tuesday, Nov, 13, this newsletter will be renamed "Security: Network Access Control Alert." Subscribers to the HTML version of this newsletter will notice some enhancements that will provide you with access to more resources relevant to IT security. You will still receive Tim Greene's analysis of this market, which you will be able to read in its entirety online at NetworkWorld.com, along with links to relevant news headlines of the day. We hope you enjoy the enhancements and we thank you for reading Network World newsletters.   What do you think? Post a comment on this newsletter

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