http://www.seanconvery.com/weblog/2005/11/17/goodbye-plug-and-play/ Ruminations on Identity Management for Networks Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:01:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://www.seanconvery.com/weblog/2005/11/17/goodbye-plug-and-play/#comment-1456 Sean Convery » Blog Archive » NAC gets the NACK Wed, 13 Dec 2006 16:17:00 +0000 http://www.seanconvery.com/weblog/?p=11#comment-1456 [...] I always had a sense that NAC–as narrowly defined under the endpoint health banner–might find the “trough of disillusionment” (as Gartner describes it) earlier than expected. With so much hype, so little standards, and so many vendors piling on with solutions it seems almost inevitable. Much of my talks with customers, at conferences, and in posts on this blog have encouraged caution in approaching this problem space so quickly–and so narrowly focused on endpoint health. [...] [...] I always had a sense that NAC–as narrowly defined under the endpoint health banner–might find the “trough of disillusionment” (as Gartner describes it) earlier than expected. With so much hype, so little standards, and so many vendors piling on with solutions it seems almost inevitable. Much of my talks with customers, at conferences, and in posts on this blog have encouraged caution in approaching this problem space so quickly–and so narrowly focused on endpoint health. [...]

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