How To Create A Successful NAC Implementation

Air Date: Tuesday, May 06, 2008

Cost: $250

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Who should attend: Security & Risk professionals

Description:

Network access control (NAC) is one of the hottest, yet vexing, technologies on the 2008 security agenda. As a Security & Risk professional, you're eager to deploy it and mitigate risk by segmenting users and baking compliance checks directly into your network. However, early adopters at peer organizations have suffered from cost and complexity issues. Fortunately, the technology has matured, and we now see that a quarter of enterprises are fully up and running. But NAC is still an evolving technology with complexities that need to be overcome. How do you make NAC successful?

This presentation answers just that. It tackles the current state of NAC and describes how you should: 1) build a business case based on securing guest and employee access; 2) identify and prioritize all the relevant scenarios, which requires collaborating with your security colleagues; and 3) kickoff a three-stage deployment process with escalating enforcement actions; and 4) avoid common implementation mistakes — like choosing products that lack rich identity capabilities.

Agenda:

• The current state of NAC adoption
• Why organizations have struggled with early implementations
• Best practices for overcoming NAC's challenges and pitfalls
• Recommendations for vendor selection

Vendors mentioned: Bradford Networks, Check Point, Cisco Systems, ConSentry, Juniper, McAfee, Microsoft, Mirage, Nevis, StillSecure, Sophos, Symantec, and Trend Micro Systems.

Related Research:

Overcoming The Common Pitfalls Of NAC

by Robert Whiteley, April 23, 2008

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