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Vendor Landscape: Network Access Control

Get the knack of NAC.

Last Revised: April 18, 2012

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Your Challenge

  • Many organizations are looking at network access control (NAC) vendors to help secure their network.
  • The rise of mobile devices and BYOD programs in the business has added new challenges to controlling the network.
  • NAC vendors are marketing themselves as ready to meet these challenges, but not all of them have the specific functionality that makes their solutions ready for the modern network.
  • This vendor landscape isolates key differentiators between vendors, and provides resources to help accelerate your selection process.

Our Advice

Critical Insight
  • The NAC market is rapidly evolving, and some advanced features differentiate between vendors. Look to these features, in addition to deployment options and price, to select a NAC solution that fits your needs.
  • NAC solutions can come from infrastructure vendors, endpoint vendors, security vendors, or pure-play NAC vendors. Decide which type of vendor fits best with your current IT environment.
Impact and Result
  • Understand the NAC market, and which vendors are staying competitive among rapidly changing enterprise networks.
  • Quickly develop a shortlist of vendors that offer solutions covering the entire spectrum of NAC requirements.
  • Be confident that the right potential partners are being considered to meet current and future NAC needs.

Get to Action

  1. Evaluate leading NAC vendors

    Arrive at a shortlist of vendors for further analysis.

  2. Create a customized list of the best fitting vendors

    Isolate vendors that best meet requirements and accelerate the selection process.

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Tags

NAC, network access control, Cisco, Juniper, McAfee, network security, guest access, ForeScout, Enterasys, BYOD, trustwave, endpoint profiling, endpoint baselining, threat monitoring, threat containment, bradford, stillsecure

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