NAC and endpoint security: The hard questions

Date: Mar 13, 2007

In this exclusive presentation from SearchSecurity.com's Integration of Networking and Security School lesson, Locking down the endpoint: How network access control can boost host security, Joel Snyder covers challenging endpoint security questions and explains how NAC technology can address them. Topics include:

Essential policies and baseline controls for endpoint systems
How different products assess endpoint health; thick agents, on-demand agents and agent-less configurations
Overview of Vista's impact on endpoint security; pros and cons
Inline and out-of-band network devices

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