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(PRIORITIES2008) NAC
On the Agenda
More companies Are evaluating or implementing nac in 2008.
Network access control (NAC) is high on the to-do list for gaming manufacturer Video Gaming Technologies of Tennessee.
"I want to make sure, before people can get on the network, that they have antivirus and antispyware," says senior network engineer Dan Goldberg. "Basically, I want to make sure they won't cause harm on the network."
About 34 percent of Priorities 2008 respondents say they plan to evaluate NAC technologies this year, while 31 percent have already implemented it; 16 percent say they will implement this year.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston plans to begin experimenting with NAC in a lab environment, says Mark Olson, manager of IS security and disaster recovery. As a research and teaching hospital, a large percentage of endpoints on its networks aren't subject to the hospital's IT policies, which makes NAC attractive.
"The goal will be to provide the appropriate IT staff the ability to dynamically move a misbehaving system off a production VLAN to a remediation/Internet-only VLAN," Olson says.
--MARCIA SAVAGE
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