It seems Cisco is trying to make its presence felt in NAC at Interop.
The company sponsored the all-day NAC seminar Monday and contributed heavily to the InteropNet NAC interoperability demonstration. It was the only vendor to have products in all of the major categories of NAC gear, client, server, enforcement and access data path.
Putting all that effort into the technology indicates the company thinks that NAC has a future. Which is optimistic in light of comments at the recent RSA conference that NAC was dead.
As one Cisco employee said, “NAC isn’t dead. Just bad NAC is dead,” referring to vendors pushing NAC that relies on DNS or ARP spoofing for enforcement as bad NAC.
