Who's in charge of the NAC?

Network Access Control This newsletter is sponsored by Nevis Networks Inside the industry's largest public NAC test Get an independent review of Cisco's CNAC and the Trusted Computing Group's TNC network access control frameworks via Network World's latest Editorial Briefing "Implementing NAC." Get the real scoop and go inside the industry's largest public test of available NAC products. Network World's Network Access Control Newsletter, 06/21/07 Who's in charge of the NAC? By Tim Greene As NAC is considered more seriously by businesses, they have to decide who among their various IT staffers are going to be in charge of it. Traditionally, the state of the endpoint has been the domain of the desktop team that is charged with making sure these devices are kept in compliance with whatever the company standard desktop configuration is. NAC can change that model. As risk-mitigation technology, NAC also falls into the sphere of the security staff whose task is to protect both the functionality of the network and sensitive corporate data. Manage Insider Security Threats Experts say 75% of security threats come from inside your organization. Watch the latest Network World Editorial Perspectives Webcast today, "Security From the Inside," and learn which technologies and processes best protect your intellectual property and assets inside the perimeter. Click Here to View And with the use of network infrastructure as possible enforcement points for NAC, corporate networking groups can also come into play because some NAC schemes call for potentially expensive upgrades. As with any technology that cuts across fields of expertise (VoIP comes to mind), part of a successful deployment is getting separate and independent groups to cooperate. This calls for high-level commitment and coordination. Successful NAC deployment requires careful advanced planning that should include: * A budgeting plan that may extend over more than one fiscal year. * Defining roles of the various teams involved in the deployment. * Training and cross-training staff to administer NAC. * A technology plan that takes into account that NAC is a young and evolving technology that won’t be fully cooked for several years. * Involve business units because NAC requires a balance between the work a corporation has to get done to earn revenue and the need to protect the network and data.   What do you think? Post a comment on this newsletter

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Contact the author: Tim Greene is a senior editor at Network World, covering network access control, virtual private networking gear, remote access, WAN acceleration and aspects of VoIP technology. You can reach him at tgreene@nww.com. This newsletter is sponsored by Nevis Networks Inside the industry's largest public NAC test Get an independent review of Cisco's CNAC and the Trusted Computing Group's TNC network access control frameworks via Network World's latest Editorial Briefing "Implementing NAC." Get the real scoop and go inside the industry's largest public test of available NAC products. ARCHIVE Archive of the Network Access Control Newsletter. BONUS FEATURE IT PRODUCT RESEARCH AT YOUR FINGERTIPS Get detailed information on thousands of products, conduct side-by-side comparisons and read product test and review results with Network World’s IT Buyer’s Guides. Find the best solution faster than ever with over 100 distinct categories across the security, storage, management, wireless, infrastructure and convergence markets. Click here for details. PRINT SUBSCRIPTIONS AVAILABLE You've got the technology snapshot of your choice delivered to your inbox each day. Extend your knowledge with a print subscription to the Network World newsweekly, Apply here today. International subscribers, click here. SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES To subscribe or unsubscribe to any Network World newsletter, change your e-mail address or contact us, click here. This message was sent to: security.world@gmail.com. Please use this address when modifying your subscription. Advertising information: Write to Associate Publisher Online Susan Cardoza Network World, Inc., 118 Turnpike Road, Southborough, MA 01772 Copyright Network World, Inc., 2007