A sign of life for NAC
- IT TOPICS:Networking, Security
The NAC (Network Admission Control) market has been a bunch of hot air. While the big vendors focus on the demands of admission control, the market really needs post-connect controls for privileged activity, threat reduction, and compliance management. ConSentry is one network security vendor that understands that NAC is about much more than admission control.
The Alcatel-Lucent announcement that they are OEMing ConSentry equipment is a good sign that network security is ready to charge forward in 2007. Time will tell, but this has the potential to be a good announcement for everyone. Alcatel-Lucent gets one of the leading high performance NAC products to market and deploy into network infrastructures; ConSentry gets desperately needed feet on the street to sell into deals that they wouldn’t even be able to compete for in the past; the NAC market benefits with the “rising tide lifts all boats” theory (e.g. which NAC vendor will ATT, BT, or EDS dance with?).
Network security sales cycles are long, and I wouldn’t expect big news until Q4. But this will energize players big and small to rapidly add address security in the network. Game on for Cisco, Juniper and Microsoft.
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