Abstract

The use of Network Access Control (NAC) solutions is growing in organizations of all sizes. This is being driven by the demand for greater access to network resources by different users on a variety of endpoints, including managed and personal mobile devices. This, coupled with the increase in malware and targeted threats, and the various compliance directives for asset integrity, protection, network segregation and data privacy bring NAC to the forefront as an effective defense.

NAC offerings, once focused purely on authenticating users and their devices, have evolved to offer broader capabilities, including endpoint discovery and configuration assessment, policy definition/enforcement, guest endpoint management and endpoint remediation.

This report provides an extensive analysis of key areas including: deployment and ease-of-use, interoperability, visibility, guest management, endpoint compliance and remediation, and enforcement.