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New suitor in Cisco mega acquisition rumor: McAfee

Despite Cisco CEO John Chambers telling investors that the company is not considering a mega acquisition at the moment, the bloggers at Inorganic Growth are not buying it and is tossing a new name in the acquisition rumor mill: McAfee.

According to Inorganic Growth: "Speculation has recently surfaced that the networking company is eyeing the largest IT security pure play, a combination that would allow Cisco – for the first time – to have control over endpoints. It would pick up a solid portfolio of security products from McAfee, notably encryption and port and device control offerings, as well as potentially salvaging Cisco’s disastrous NAC effort. (And as an added bonus with the deal, Cisco could stick it to Symantec. Cisco has little love for Symantec.)."

The blog also suggests that Cisco is putting so much emphasize on security that when the time comes for Chambers to step down, he will turn over the reins to Scott Weiss, former CEO of Cisco acquiree IronPort and now vice president and general manager of Cisco's Security Technology Group.

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Who wrote this drivel?

Cisco's NAC solution is mature, solid, and almost undefeatable, albeit expensive.

Mcafee's NAC 3.0 is a complete rebuild from the ground up, and it's presently still in beta and is easily circumvented.

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Who wrote this drivel?

Cisco's NAC solution is mature, solid, and almost undefeatable, albeit expensive.

Mcafee's NAC 3.0 is a complete rebuild from the ground up, and it's presently still in beta and is easily circumvented.

Dont Crae about Cisco NAC!! Its piece of junk!

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I dont care how much you love Cisco but its technology is set to doom soon. Its NAC and all the components are huge failure.

Please stay away from Cisco as much as you can or else the good times o today(so you think) will turn in to distarous night mare of tomorrow.

Great product, too complex for most

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Cisco NAC framework works great when implemented correctly, unfortunately for Cisco most engineers found it a bit challenging, quite a few enterprises running 802.1X IP without any issues

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