What You Need To Know About NAC

Today network access control (NAC) is one of the most talked about and confusing areas of network security. Unfortunately confusion leads organizations to make suboptimal decisions. Most often they do not fully understand their options, i.e., they hold either incomplete or inaccurate ideas about what types of network security are both possible and practical. What are the direct and immediate consequences? Their ability to confidently move ahead with sound security plans and solution evaluations is severely diminished. While some organizations successfully avoid this problem, many more either delay the adoption of NAC solutions or end up eventually disappointed with the ones they own.

This portal area is designed to help you avoid these pitfalls. We examine the NAC phenomena from multiple perspectives and will continually expand our topics and update our content. As always, we welcome your contributions and feedback.

1. What security problems do organizations expect NAC to solve?
2. The different types of NAC solutions available today, i.e., "what is NAC?"
3. Network Admission Control: An In-depth Review
4. Network Admission Control Best Practices
5. NAC Facts, Opinions and Misunderstandings
6. NAC Product Selection Guide (20 vendors)
7. Portal Blog
8. Interop iLabs NAC Resources