Thursday, February 12, 2009

StillSecure on the fence about hosted NAC

StillSecure is looking to get into the security services business but still on the fence about including hosted NAC
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StillSecure on the fence about hosted NAC

Tim Greene By Tim Greene
When StillSecure announced this week it will offer services as well as security gear, it was still on the fence about whether to include hosted NAC. Read full story

Tim Greene is senior editor at Network World.

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StillSecure provides flexible NAC with SafeAccess StillSecure Safe Access is an appliance that can be deployed in three scenarios – as part of an 802.1X authentication scheme, sitting in-line or working in conjunction with DHCP server. In the last scenario, which is sometimes the only option for an organization based on infrastructure limitations, is when SafeAccess performs an endpoint assessment before the DHCP server gives the endpoint an IP address and provides network access. The drawback with DHCP is that a static IP addresses can bypass the endpoint-assessment process.

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