NAC market continues to evolve

The evolution of NAC continues as the need for consolidation grows Security: Network Access Control Alert NetworkWorld.com | Security Research Center | Update Your Profile Sponsored by Trend Micro Reducing Web Threats on your Net. Ensure security, regulatory compliance, and business continuity with a new approach to security explained in this whitepaper, "Web Threats: Challenges and solutions." Effectively defend your network against the latest web threats with technology and services at a variety of levels for full protection. Get all of the details today. Spotlight Story NAC market continues to evolve By Tim Greene The NAC market continues to evolve, including the necessary and sometimes painful process of consolidation. Read full story Tim Greene is senior editor at Network World. Related News: Trustwave buys NAC vendor Mirage Managed security provider Trustwave has bought up independent NAC vendor Mirage Networks and will add NAC to the list of services Trustwave provides. Citrix takes step towards apps access management vision Citrix has bought the assets of NAC vendor Caymas Systems, giving Citrix yet another means for guarding networks and applications. Citrix buys Caymas NAC assets Citrix is buying the assets of NAC vendor Caymas Systems, which is out of business and whose products have some overlap with the Citrix's SSL VPN products. Security vendor Lockdown goes belly up Network access control start-up Lockdown Networks has shut down operations, becoming another in what has become a string of vendors floundering in the network access arena. NAC vendor changes stripes, promises improved security technology It seems to be getting harder to make it as a NAC-only vendor, as evidenced by Vernier Networks unceremoniously changing its name and working on new technology it says goes beyond its current gear. 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