The Industry's Most Comprehensive Analysis of NAC Issues and Vendor Products
Network Admission And Access Control Product Selection ("NAC PSG") Guide
Is Now Available
Whether your organization is planning, budgeting for or evaluating network admission and access control solutions you need an excellent understanding of the available strategic options, deployment opportunities and important trade-offs plus an indepth knowledge of vendor products BEFORE you firm up your requirements and begin an in-depth evaluation of vendors and their products.
NAC PSG Offers Excellent Value
The NAC PSG will save you 100's of hours of personal research.
The NAC PSG provides unmatched information on 15 leading NAC products*.
When you purchase the NAC PSG you will receive all subsequent updates for the following 12 months.
- The 180+ page NAC PSG is priced at an affordable $695 US per copy.
Not Yet Convinced?
Before you purchase any "NAC product selection guide" from any source, we recommend ...
You view our sample Product Profiles on Secure Access Central (Note: the NAC PSG also includes an in-depth review of the security policy management capabilities of these NAC products. While these are not displayed on Secure Access Central, you can view the form of our analysis in the blog post "A Closer Look at Network Access Control (NAC) Policy Possibilities"
Examine Other Options
The recently published 95-page NAC report, Network Access Control: 2008 is a do-or-die year" from The 451 Group "takes measure of the NAC industry by looking at its history, at how it has evolved in the past five years, and at some of the forces that will transform the market for access control products in the months to come". This macro-level stratgeic analysis costs $3750 per user license!
The Gartner MarketScope for Network Access Control,2008 is a high-level evaluation of NAC vendor competitiveness scored using a number of business attributes. There is no details on individual products. It is available at no cost at a number of websites.
Network Computing's NAC Rolling Reviews are free and provide the editors opinions about individual NAC products. They do not provide comprehensive details about the capabilities of any of these products and therefore little basis for comparisons.
Network World's Clear Choice NAC Tests are also free but are even less useful than the Network Computing Rolling Reviews.
Now Get the Best Value!
NAC PSG Table of Contents
- Introduction
- What Is NAC?
- What Do You Really Want From A NAC Solution?
- NAC Product Categories
- NAC Architecture Considerations
- NAC Vendors by Category
- Competitive Positioning
- Product Spotlights
- Vendor Close-ups (7-10 pages dedicated to each vendor)
- Vendor & Product Profile
- How It Works - Conceptual View
- How It Works - User Connection View
(Multiple enforcement scenarios) - How It Works - Device Posture Testing Capabilities
(Comprehensive tables for agent and agentless configurations) - Policy Management Capabilities
(Comprehensive policy feature tables) - Product Close-Up
(Comprehensive feature tables)
Current Vendor Coverage (16)
Array Networks, Bradford Networks, Cisco Systems, ConSentry Networks, Forescout Technologies, ProCurve Networking by HP, Infoexpress, Impulse Point, Juniper Networks, LANDesk, Lockdown Networks, Mirage Networks, Nevis Networks, StillSecure, Symantec and TippingPoint.


